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Tough Times Persist for Ciudad Juarez Workers

Last week, a group of workers seized a factory and occupied the property after the business closed.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Employment in Ciudad Juarez’s bedrock maquiladora industry is recovering at a much slower pace than elsewhere in Mexico.

Of 164,590 new jobs created in the assembly-for-export industry during 2010, only 10,271 were located in Ciudad Juarez.

The Crossroads of Food

'Round Up' followers: call your nation into resistance.

(SALEM, Ore.) - We find ourselves at a particular juncture, a fork in the road, where history allows us a perfect opportunity to benefit from 20/20 hindsight without the detriment of looking back 15 years down the road to an inevitable agricultural devastation.

In our recent past, many of those opportune moments have remained un-seized.

World Fears Shortage of Kosher Hotdogs in Event of Nuclear Strike on Israel

"Israeli chefs feel very connected to this product. After the tsunami I received phone calls from hysterical people fearing a shortage of Kikkoman - Dudi Afriat, Israeli sushi importer

(ISTANBUL) - Making rounds over the past few days is an item from the Business section of Israel’s Ynet news site, entitled “Israel fears sushi shortage after quake”.

The article begins by noting that, while Japan “has yet to recover from one of the greatest disasters in its history, Israelis fear a shortage in the ingredients of one of their favorite dishes: Sushi”.

The Two Faces of Genetic Engineering

Genetic engineering differs from the ancient technique of artificial selection in that the manipulation of genetic material occurs in a manner that is totally unnatural.

(SALEM, Ore.) - On one side, the bio-engineering industry promises a utopian world of bountiful food, where sickness and human imperfections are a thing of the past.

Researcher: Glyphosate (Roundup) or Roundup Ready Crops May Cause Animal Miscarriages

(PURDUE) - A bombshell has been quietly dropped on the website of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance. A professor emeritus at Purdue University finds a correlation between Roundup Ready crops and a new, previously unknown organism that may cause of animal miscarriages and infertility.

However, Huber, who has 40 years experience working as a scientist for "professional and military agencies that evaluate and prepare for natural and manmade biological threats, including germ warfare and disease outbreaks," believes this should be treated as an emergency until more research can confirm or disprove these initial findings.

USDA Lifts Restrictions on Planting GMO Seeds

A MAPLight.org analysis of data from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that two high-ranking officials on the House Agriculture Committee topped Syngenta's donor list.

(BERKLEY, Calif.) - The USDA has given corn growers the green light to plant Swiss-based Syngenta's genetically modified corn seeds for the 2011 spring season.

According to the St. Louis Business Journal, the announcement is a boon to midwest growers, but the product is under fire regarding concerns for crop contamination.

Banking on the Harvest

In Niger, many women are taking local food security into their own hands.

(MARADI, Niger) - In the Maradi area in south central Niger, where 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, the months before the harvest are called “the hunger season.”

From mid-July to mid-September, food supplies are at their lowest and most families only eat one meal a day.

Egypt 2011: Preview of America in 2015

The short-term impact is immediately reflected in commodity prices: grains, oils, meats and precious metals. All have seen huge upswings.

(CHICAGO) - Take a good look at what's happening in Egypt during February, 2011.

What's happening there may happen in the U.S. within four short years.

Commerce News: Border Farmers Wanted

Cultivating new farmers and building up a locally-focused agricultural infrastructure are key goals...

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Well-established in north-central New Mexico, local growers' markets are now expanding in the southern New Mexico borderland.

Recently, representatives of four regional farmers' markets banded together to form the Southern New Mexico Farmers Marketing Group (SNFMG).

Monsanto is the Real Food Terror Threat

“In 1998, Monsanto applied for FDA approval for a monster molecule, “based on the aspartame formula” with one critical addition: 3-dimethylbutyl [listed on EPA's most hazardous chemical list].

(HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.) - Acting on information from a “key intelligence source,” CBS News claimed that terrorists are trying to poison our food supply on Monday.

This may come as a shock, but some researchers have already identified several thriving “food-terror cells” who've been operating from within our borders for years.