Linn Cohen-Cole describes how big agribusiness are gaining control over our food system. In the name of food safety or traceability, legislation is being pushed that pose great obstacles to sustainable farmers, including pricing them out of business. Michael Pollan sums this up by saying that progressive legislators are wanting to apply greater industrialization to an industrial system that failed because it is industrial already. He is very clear that this is going to destroy our small farms
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See Also:
Seeds of Deception by Jeffery Smith
Seeds of Deception (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVBgz-re1Zs&feature=PlayList&p=F86921FCA4B8408A&index=0
The World According to Monsanto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_OJcPKEYDE&feature=PlayList&p=B8DC51B28C789BB2&index=0&playnext=1
To Access all of Linn's Articles click on her name. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Monsanto-and-Hillary-Clint-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-090209-290.html
The Gary Null Show ... March 17th, 2009... goto minute 48? to hear about these food bills. http://garynull.org/
The Future of Food http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku2YErUoUMA
www.smallplanetinstitute.org
www.organicconsumers.org
www.cornucopia.org
www.foodandwaterwatch.org
www.localharvest.org
"I Want My Father Back" Part 1? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6063387598655207801
Part 2? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1482107411279204352&hl=en
The Dying Fields. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/the-dying-fields/introduction/967/
Monsanto Patent for a Pig http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ouf_gmA5o&feature=PlayList&p=5954F67B74120D81&index=0&playnext=1
"Poison on the Platter" video Mahesh Bhatt http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4687000/12525766