Whey Proteins Suppress Cancers
• arcleinScientists have found that lactoferrin, a whey protein found in milk, could be an anticancer agent for breast cancer. Lactoferrin is an iron-binding protein that has been
Contents Pages by Subject
Agriculture
USDA GMO Policy
• Farm WarsMonsanto, Vilsack, and the USDA GMO juggernaut.
The Evolution of the Perfect American Christmas Tree
• arcleinFrom Aldrich's perspective (and experience with customers), an ugly tree is one with gaps between its branches and a top that doesn't end in a perfect point. Usually, people arrive looking for symmetry and an absence of gaps.
Amazonian Deforestation Declines
• arcleinSatellite imaging showed 6,451 square kilometers (2,491 square miles) of the jungle had been cut back between August 2009 and July 2010, an area equivalent to half the size of Lebanon or Jamaica.
Bamboo Culture Campaign
• arcleinIt helps support the livelihoods of more than 1.5 billion people, generates more than five billion dollars in annual trade and can grow up to one meter (3.25 feet) a day." "Bamboo housing has been around for centuries, but many people don't und
Hottest Chili Created
• arcleinYes, the Naga Viper, the latest claimant to the world's-hottest-pepper crown, outdistances its predecessor, the Bhut Jolokia, or "ghost chili," by more than 300,000 points on the famous Scoville scale of tongue-scorching chili hotness. Researcher
GMO oranges, China, and the loss of another piece of America’s agricultural base
• Farm WarsThe genetic modification of corn and soy has succeeded in infiltrating nearly every processed food in America, with wheat and alfalfa soon to be next. Now it’s oranges. But why?
Mushroom Nutrition and Vitamin D
• arcleinLeading vitamin D expert Michael F. Holick, PhD, MD, of Boston University Medical Center, is encouraged by the committee’s increased recommendations because they’re a step in the right direction. “The report acknowledges that everyone should be getti
Monsanto’s Ongoing Corruption Incites Forbes’ Retraction…
• Mercola.comMonsanto has been paying farmers to use its competitors' herbicides. Why? It's a last ditch effort to address the spread of superweeds created by the company's "Roundup Ready" (RR) GMO crops. Environmental scientists warned about the problem
Irish Peat Modernization
• arclein“We started off by looking at new uses of peat and environmental uses of peat,” Henry added. “Now we’re talking about different types of renewable energy and clean tech products.” Henry estimated Bord na Mona is “a good halfway towards the transforma
Cabbage Mosaic Virus Beaten
• arcleinhey have tested resistant plants against a range of different strains of the virus taken from all over the world and so far, no strain has been able to overcome the resistance. The research on the so-called Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV), led by Dr Jo
Soil Degradation and Industrial Farming
• arcleinBecause we are force feeding our crops, all the secondary nutrients are been also depleted several times faster than is normal. At present no replacement strategy exists that I am aware of.
Thank You Sen. John Tester for your Amendment to S-510
• The Survival PodcastDue to my strong stance as a constitutionalists and libertarian the uninformed often call me a “right winger” which if you listen to the show is simply nuts. Unfortunately I don’t get to give many politicians a pat on the back be they Democrats or
New Insect Birth Control Strategy Zaps Cotton Pests
• arcleinhe refuges ensure a substantial population of non-resistant insects will be around, fluttering about in search for mates. Given the abundance of non-resistant insects relative to the scarce resistant ones, chances are slim
Hemp Bio-fuel Blazes Competition
• arcleinThe plant’s ability to grow in infertile soils also reduces the need to grow it on primary croplands, which can then be reserved for growing food according to Richard Parnas, a professor of chemical, materials, and biomolecular engineering at UConn.
Burning Goodwill: A reply to a consumer organization regarding S.510
• The PPJ GazetteYou are either totally ignorant about the contents of S. 510, the food “safety” bill, or you are a shill. Effective April 1, 2011, the selling of vitamins and nutritional supplements without a prescription will officially become illegal in Europe
The Last Frontier II: America’s cattlemen fight for survival
• The PPJ GazetteMAYBE… Mr. J Dudley Butler noticed that Senate Ag Chairman Collin Peterson and his 114 colleges were the recipients of over $48.6 million of Agri Pac campaign contributions! However during the 2008 Farm Bill debate our Congressional leaders also
UN Starts Wheat Aid to 500,000 Pakistani farmers
• arcleinFAO said the aid would benefit a total of five million people, adding: "The food security of tens of millions of Pakistanis is at stake with the current planting season. The next harvest for wheat will not be until spring 2011."
European Milk Quotas and United States' Trial By Public Opinion
• The PPJ GazetteSee how that works people – throw enough chaff into the air and particulates are bound to be found. Will you use something the EPA designates as to be labeled “Caution”? I did try to find the specific referral to AP-360 (TM) at the EPA website, but a
'Vertical Farm' envisions tall future for farming
• APA new book by an urban agriculture visionary aims to change the way people think about farming, offering a look into a future where city skyscrapers _ not rural fields _ produce the world's food. "The Vertical Farm," challenges the notion that plants
Maricopa County Master Gardeners Fall Plant Sale!
• e-mail from Easton Kelsey (THANKS!)The University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Maricopa County Master Gardeners are pleased to announce their Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 30, 2010, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The New Land Rush: The selling out of America’s farmers
• The PPJ GazetteIf the Chinese acquire large tracts of land here in the United States, food grown will be for import. This will threaten not only our own independence, but will cause distortions in our food supply and put an end to the local food movement as well.
Why Monsanto Pays Farmers to Use Competing Herbicides
• arcleinWhen farmers douse the same field year after year with the same herbicide, certain weeds will develop resistance. When they do, it will take ever-larger doses of that herbicide to kill them -- making the survivors even hardier. Eventually, it will be
Roundup Suffocates Human Cells
• arcleinOne specific inert ingredient, polyethoxylated tallowamine, or POEA, was more deadly to human embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells than the herbicide itself – a finding the researchers call “astonishing.” “This clearly confirms that the [in
USDA Downplays Own Scientist’s Research on Roundup
• arcleinWhat would happen if a USDA scientist discovered that one of the most commonly used pesticides on the planet with a reputation for having saved millions of tons of US soil from erosion was -- rather than a soil savior -- a soil killer?
Chinese Aid Bringing Smiles to Sierra Leone Farmers
• arcleins like Jabbah's in Freetown, as well as others around the cities of Bo and Kenema. The project has provided hybrid rice and fertiliser, as well as access to power tillers, combined harvesters and a rice mill.
NAIS: Still the greatest threat to family ranchers and herders
• The PPJ GazetteIn response to the refusal of so many agricultural land owners to enter into the contract with state agencies that had taken bribe money euphemistically referred to as “co-operative funding” from the USDA, the state agencies began a campaign of extor
March 2010: Vilsack announces new budget for 2011 for USDA…..and a new plan of assault on America’s
• The PPJ GazetteA March 2, 2010 Agriculture Committee hearing televised live on CSPAN gives a clear picture of what’s ahead for domestic farmers, ranchers and herders in the US.. Deputy Secretary Kathleen A. Merrigan cheerfully announced the “new age of enforcement
Bayer Link to Colony Collapse Disorder Reversed in Italy
• arcleinThe ban on the insecticide-soaked seed coating enforced by the Italian government last year seems to have worked wonders, judging from the freshest data collected on the ground by researchers, beekeepers and regional authorities alike.
Kerosene to Rice Husks
• arcleinhe machines clamour and whir from dusk to midnight, transforming heaps of rice husks into electricity and offering respite from darkness in Tamkuha, a humble village in the eastern state of Bihar.
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