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Category Archives: food
Climate Change About To Get Very Real
Hopefully, folks are paying attention to news beyond the impeachment, even though impeachment seems to be all many news organizations seem to be concerned about. If there is one sector of the news that should be mandatory for people to … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2020 election campaign, Blog for Iowa, Climate Action, Climate Change, Farming, food
Tagged Green New Deal, human population growth
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Earth Day ALERT: Bayer, Monsanto Merger Nears
A little reminder dropped into my mailbox the other day from a group known as “Friends of the Earth.” The reminder was that the mega merger of Bayer and Monsanto was still in the works and had recently passed some … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Economy, Farming, food
Tagged Bayer, merger, Monsanto
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Monsanto: Harvest Of Power
Listening to American Public Radio’s Marketplace is kind of an accidental habit with me. It is on at 6:30PM locally which is a time I seem to usually choose as a wash up time. Since that is an area of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, food, Food Insecurity
Tagged Bayer, food as a weapon, giant ag mergers, mergers, Monsanto
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Eaters Must Join Farmers To Reclaim America’s Food System
Every Iowan should listen to this talk about CAFOs and how they get away with it. There is hope through collective action. Click here to find out how to join the fight in Iowa. “Corporations, which should be the carefully … Continue reading
Posted in Factory Farms (CAFOs), Farming, food
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Why we must listen to Pope Francis
The following is an email sent from the Bernie Sanders campaign: “If politics must truly be at the service of the human person, it follows that it cannot be a slave to the economy and finance. Politics is, instead, an … Continue reading
Posted in Bernie Sanders, Economy, food, Food Insecurity, Immigration, Income inequality, poverty
Tagged Dorothy Day, Pope Francis
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To Our Grandchild
We want to get our apology in now. We won’t be around a lot longer and it looks like the one thing we had hoped to give you when you reached adulthood was a world that was at least trying … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Action, Climate Change, Corporate Greed, Environment, food, Food Insecurity, Recycling, water
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Humiliating The Poor
This is now something we do in America. No more following the teachings of most religions and ethics. Poor people are to be treated as a pariah in America these days. Reasoning in America today says poor people are responsible … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, food, Food Insecurity, poverty
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Iowans For Sherrie Taha
IOWA CITY– The fact that Sherrie Taha, candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, supports reduction of food imports to Iowa only makes sense. “Rather than import the bulk of the food we eat from outside of our state, we need … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 Election Campaign, Farming, food, Food Insecurity, Organic Foods & Farming
Tagged 2014 Midterm Election, agriculture, Local food
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Whatever Happened To Family Values?
Let’s talk kitchen table issues. Let’s get real about what they are and who supports the side of the issue that will really help families stay together, grow and prosper. American families have been so beat down by Republicans claiming … Continue reading
Posted in Affordable Care Act, food, Health Care & Medicare, Joni Ernst, Medicare, Social Security
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Iowa Based Food Democracy Now! Joins Lawsuit Against Monsanto
At Food Democracy Now! we believe that family farmers have a right to farm without threat and intimidation. We don’t think farmers should be sued because Monsanto’s patented genes from a neighbor’s field blow across their fence and contaminate their … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, food, GMO
Tagged corporate farming, industrial agriculture, iowa farming, Monsanto lawsuit, non-GMO seeds
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