Pesticide Usage versus Agroecological Approaches Part Two
Part Two The debate rages: is or isn’t glyphosate carcinogenic? The story of GE foods and their counterparts like glyphosate often reads like an espionage thriller with various subplots...
Pesticide Usage versus Agroecological Approaches Part One
If you are unsure about GE food, consider this: the potential harm to human health caused by glyphosate (AKA Roundup®) has been clearly established. The ever growing use of...
The Incredible Persistence of GMOS: Updates on the companies who produce them, new technologies, new legislation and people’s resistance
We have been following information about GMOs since studies were first published. It is not a straight forward story. Below are some new developments. Good or bad? What do...
Update on Sustainable and Organic Agriculture in the US
Throughout March, farmers, ranchers, and advocates of sustainable agriculture flew to DC from around the country to discuss the benefits of sustainable agriculture with Senators and Representative of their...
The Second Chance Foundation Stands With the Students of the University of Hyderabad
The crisis triggered by the tragic suicide of Rohith Vemula has revealed the deep-seated casteism and brutality of the university’s administration. A constituency of the university’s students, who continue...
Just Food Conference 2016
On Sunday, March 13th, the annual Just Food Conference will bring together more than 800 community organizers, CSA members, local food advocates, urban and rural farmers, and entrepreneurs for...
Indian Activists and Students Demand Equality and Justice for Dalits (former untouchables) after the Suicide of Dalit Ph. D. Student Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad India
Student protests have erupted throughout India in response to the suicide of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit (formerly called untouchable) student at the University of Hyderabad (India) and the...
The Second Chance Foundation is Raising Money for Flood Victims
The Second Chance Foundation is raising money for poor coastal families in India, South of Chennai, who lost their homes to the devastating floods of November-December 2015. Unlike the...
New Worker Protection Standards “A Step in the Right Direction” for U.S. Farmworker Advocates
2015 marked a successful year for farmworker advocates in their struggle against pesticide use and exposure. In September, activists finally succeeded in pressuring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
India is Covering Up its Public Health Crisis with Claims to the Historical Responsibility of Developed Countries
The COP21 negotiations establishing an international framework agreement to mitigate climate change recently closed in Paris, and heads of state around the globe are heralding the finished agreement. ...