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California Firm Recalls Ready-to-eat Grilled Chicken Strips Due to Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens

The recalled product bears the establishment number “P-20923” inside the USDA mark of inspection and a use-by date of “JUN 22 2013” printed on each tray.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Foster Farms, a Porterville, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 6,165 pounds of ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast strips.

The food contains wheat and soy, known allergens, which are not declared on the product label, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today.

Cops Arbitrary Arrested Rohingyas in Northern Maungdaw

40 Rohingya people were detained on false charges, those who could not pay bribes are still being held.

(MAUNGDAW, Arakan State) - On April 17, 2013, police detained more than forty Rohingya.

They were teenagers, youths and adults from Kyeinn Chaung (Bollibazar) and Aung Sit Pyan, from the Maungdaw district in Arakan.

Corporate India Versus Indigenous Indians

Violence In The Name Of Development.

(LONDON) - Consistent with the unjust, decaying economic model of our deficit times, the commodification of everything and everyone proceeds apace in India.

The commercialisation of the land is shattering the lives of millions of India’s poorest, hungriest most malnourished people, who are being murdered and raped, violently displaced and falsely arrested as huge multi nationals, financially favoured and militarily armed by the Indian government, ravage the land.

The Monsanto Rider Is Much, Much Worse Than GMOs

This rider actually goes further than what Monsanto and Dow did in Vietnam.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Monsanto already got DHS to define organics as a biosecurity threat.

So it is no leap of the imagination that Vilsack who has been an aggressive servant of the biotech industry, is set to declare organic products plant pests or noxious weeds.

Farmer Protesting Land Grab Crushed by Truck

The truck driver is in police custody and investigation is underway.

(HENAN PROVINCE, China Sina English) - A farmer was crushed to death by a truck in his contracted land for refusing to transfer the land to a local developer in Zhongmou County, C China’s Henan Province, on Mar 27.

The dead surnamed Song is a local villager, who has contracted the land for planting trees with another three, according to Song’s brother-in-law during an interview.

Zed Seeks `Avenida Cesar Chavez` in Major Nevada Cities

Rajan Zed further said that Nevada should honor Chavez’s Gandhian principles for social change.

(RENO) - Nevada Cesar Chavez Day Committee has urged that one major street in all major cities/towns of Nevada be renamed as Avenida Cesar Chavez after civil rights icon Cesar Estrada Chavez.

In a release in Nevada today, Zed also stressed that Nevada should declare March 31 as state holiday.

Has Monsanto Hidden a Feudal Star Chamber Inside the Food Safety Law?

People need to understand the immense difference between statutory law (or civil law?) and common law.

(WASHINGTON DC) - HR 875 was an early version of the current food safety law.

It includes a star chamber - a "court" outside of the legal system, with unlimited funding through raids and fines and with no oversight whatsoever, which could impose any "remedy" on anyone, not excluding seizure of all they own, limitless imprisonment, torture or execution/assassination.

Agriculture Productivity is Inversely Proportional to Political Fraud

Redactor: Mr. SP Gulati, former Secretary-Government of India.

(CHENNAI) - Vile and crafty King Sisyphus, so the Greek myth goes, thought he was as smart as God. Zeus being smarter punished him to roll a boulder up the hill only to repentantly watch it roll down the other side.

Since Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh and his Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar also believe they are smarter than God, they deserve the same Sisyphean punishment.

Georgia-Pacific Responds To Supreme Court Decision In Forest Roads Case

"The court's ruling is a significant victory for the 2.5 million people and thousands of local economies that depend on forest products for their livelihood" - Mike Adams, Georgia-Pacific

(WASHINGTON DC) - The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court's decision in the case of Georgia-Pacific West, Inc. v. NEDC, Sup. Ct. No. 11-347, commonly referred to as the "forest roads" case.

The decision overturns a 2011 ruling that reversed 35 years of regulation governing management of rainwater runoff from forest roads.

Oregon Timber Industry Comments on Senate County Payments Hearing

Group outlines what they describe as real solutions.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is holding a hearing in Washington, DC today entitled “Keeping the Commitment to Rural Communities”.

They're reviewing the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act and Payments in Lieu of Taxes county payment programs.