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Study Links Kidney Disease in Sri Lanka`s Farm Belt to Agrochemicals

Researchers involved in each study acknowledged that the issues raised by the other were significant.

(COLOMBO IPS) - A new report links the high prevalence of chronic kidney disease in Sri Lanka’s main agricultural production regions with the presence of heavy metals in the water, caused by fertiliser and pesticide use.

Over the past two decades, dozens of studies have been conducted on the large number of kidney patients in Sri Lanka’s agro-rich north-central region.

The Parallel Crisis: 50,000 Children Die from Hunger Every Day

It is also estimated that 400 million children are slaves for the despotism of exploitation.

(MADRID, Spain) - The Sahel region in Africa is facing a severe food crisis. The droughts of 2005, 2010 and 2012, along with increased insecurity, are driving many families into chaos.

More than one million children have no access to food, medicines, safe drinking water, sanitation or education.

Typical Continental Breakfast Fare Unfairly Ignores Basic Health Needs

Sweet stuff leaves a bitter impression. We Baby Boomers listen to a different drummer.

(LINCOLN CITY, OR) - Recently my wife and I had to escape a horrible heatwave. It wasn't a bit pleasant.

As retirees, we were free to take off midweek and headed to Lincoln City and vicinity.

LA `Authorities` in Rawesome Raw Milk Raids were Impersonating Public Officials

Developing story is a heavy indictment of LA County officials.

(LOS ANGELES NaturalNews ) - Documents and testimony obtained by NaturalNews allege that The Rawesome Foods armed "raw milk raids" and prosecution of two individuals were carried out in part by law-breaking private citizens pretending to be lawful government authorities.

They have been operating under false labels such as "district attorney" or "LAPD officer" and may be liable for millions of dollars in civil and criminal damages for their actions

Goldman Sachs, Monsanto and the Suspicious Drought

Why is no one is filing FOIAs about whether HAARP is being used to cause this drought that threatens agriculture here and thus the country itself?

(WASHINGTON DC) - As farmers are cutting down their corn in the Midwest and ranchers are selling off their cattle.

When is someone going to make the connection that HAARP is yet another part of the from-every-side onslaught against farming and ranching that is occurring here?

`Mother Nature is Extremely Wise and Extremely Kind`

It seems the answers to some of the world's scariest problems are right under our nose.

(LONDON) - The title is a quote from Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride.

And Mother Nature has been unusually busy lately, helping out mankind. At every step, she is ending long-standing fears. One by one, they are being overturned.

Oregon`s 13th Annual Bites for Rights is Tomorrow

BRO’s most delicious fundraiser of the year is held at 115 spots across Oregon.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - More than 100 restaurants, coffee shops, carts, bars and bakeries around the state will support equality tomorrow by donating a portion of their day’s proceeds to Basic Rights Oregon.

URGENT: Don`t Let the Biotech Industry Sneak This In!

Provision would strip federal courts of the authority to halt the sale and planting of illegal, potentially hazardous crops while USDA is assessing those potential hazards.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Congress is considering a sneaky, pro-GMO rider to a funding bill, and it may become law without anyone realizing it—unless you take action NOW!

The biotech industry has managed to insert a dangerous rider in support of genetically engineered crops into the FY 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill.

The Great Indian Gene Bazaar

Kaushik Basu's Useless Suggestions to Prop up the Indian Economy

(NEW DELHI, India ) - It has taken the civil society years of struggle to ensure that the plant genetic resources (PGR), which is essentially the preserve of farmers, are not passed on freely into the hands of multinational corporations/seed companies.

After the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity, the battle to seek control over PGR had of course intensified.

Food Wars

Denae Gemmrig explores the public face of Monsanto, one of the nation's most powerful companies.

(PHOENIX, AZ) - While Monsanto works so hard to end the world’s hunger issues by creating genetically modified organisms, the people are fighting to get GMO food labeled.

Genetically modified organisms are organisms whose genetic material is altered using DNA from different sources and then combined into one molecule to create a new set of genes.