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South Africa police fire rubber bullets at farm workers.
The poor working black south Africans seem to be fed up with the promises of the ruling ANC that everything will get better eventually. First the miners, now the farmers. I wonder what group is going...
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Reporting Factory Farm Abuses to be Considered “Act of Terrorism” If New Laws...
Three states are the latest states to introduce Ag-Gag laws and lawmakers in 10 other states introduced similar bills in 2011-2012. WT news feed
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Argentine Farm Sales Raise Questions of Land Speculation By Soros.
Hedge fund billionaire George Soros made a fortune betting against the British pound in 1992 and was accused of doing the same against the Thai baht and the Malaysian ringitt in 1997. Today Soros is...
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Is Your Workout Gear Ruining Farm Fields?
The EPA, it turns out, has been massively overusing a loophole known as “conditional registration” to greenlight chemicals without much reviewâand that’s precisely how nano silver entered the apparel...
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NYT – The AG-Gag, Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime
Livestock companies say that their businesses have suffered financially from unfair videos that are less about protecting animals than persuading consumers to stop eating meat. bertb news feed
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House Farm Bill Expands Crop Insurance, Cuts Food Stamps.
A Republican-controlled panel in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the biggest cuts in food stamps for the poor in a generation and a potentially expensive expansion of federally...
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Undercover Investigator Charged With Animal Cruelty for Videotaping Farm Abuse
Journalist Will Potter reports on the arrest of an undercover animal rights worker who filmed animal abuse in the livestock industry. Potter’s website, GreenIsTheNewRed.com, compares the contemporary...
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A Ban On Owning Farm Animals? Michigan Is Considering It
Keeping even one “farm animal” in residential neighborhoods could soon be illegal in Michigan. That’s because a proposed change to state regulations could strip property owners of the right to keep...
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Farm Bill with Hemp Resolution Passes House
In what could be the beginning of a new attitude towards hemp, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a major farm bill on Wednesday that included a provision to allow the cultivation of the long...
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Legal Hemp Cultivation Gets Boost From Pending Farm Bill
Legal cultivation of hemp—a cousin of marijuana used to make everything from fabrics to pharmaceuticals—is closer to becoming reality as a result of a provision tucked into the farm bill that passed...
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