By LIBBY QUAID
Under orders to whittle agriculture spending by $3 billion, Republicans in Congress propose to slash food programs for the poor by $574 million and subsidies and conservation programs by $1 billion each, The Associated Press has learned.
The plan by Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., would reduce farmers’ payments by 2.5 percent across the board, slashing spending by $1.145 billion over five years. That’s half the 5 percent the Bush (…)
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Congress Seeks to Slash Food Aid for Poor
8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Pictures Needed Of Mutant Crops & Livestock from 2005
5 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Help us show the world what true satanism is all about! Help us show the world what satanic influences are running them! Take a look at the pictures below, then consider the ENMOD (Top Secret Radiation Technology of the bush crime family) that has been going hot and heavy since the lying fanatic traitor bush stole office.
Yes, boy george is most adept at lying-cheating-stealing and murder, as are all the members of his family, its how they were brought up, and it is their true religion, (…) -
Hemp for Victory
26 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsCongressman Ron Paul, a libertarian from Texas and an obstetrician who has delivered over 6000 babies, is trying to deliver our farmers from a bureaucratic medievalism in Washington that keeps saying "No" to growing industrial hemp.
Many farmers want to grow this 5000 year old long fiber plant that has been turned into thousands of products since being domesticated by the ancient Chinese. That is their heresy. The enforcer is the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Washington, DC, which has (…) -
GM industry puts human gene into rice
25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsScientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that GM technology is creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the controversy surrounding it to new heights.
Even before this development, many people, including Prince Charles, have opposed the technology on the grounds that it is playing God by creating unnatural (…) -
Water Loss, seed destruction - Saving the World’s Seeds - Dr. Vandana Shiva
17 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsThank you for joining us on Catalyst Radio.
Would you start by talking about some general issues surrounding globalization.
Dr. Vandana Shiva: Well those of use who are concerned about the globalization that has been contrived and yet made to look as if it is a natural evolutionary step, we are concerned about the injustice and undemocratic system on which it is based.
And everything we said, fifteen years ago, when these rules were being put in place, very artificially, under GAT (…) -
Venezuela’s Agrarian Land Reform: More like Lincoln than Lenin
2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy: Seth DeLong - COHA Land Reform is the traditional third rail of left-of-center governments and social reform movements. President Hugo Chavez’s plan is fundamentally different from other Latin American attempts at land reform. The proper historical parallel is President Lincoln’s Homestead Act. Chavez’s opponents, who see him as “another Castro,” wrongly view his agrarian reform program as a total assault on private property. Land Reform is one of the most progressive aspects of Chavez’s (…)