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  • Famine 1932-1933 killed 7 million people in USA
    21 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Famine 1932-1933 killed 7 million people in USA
    19.05.2008 Dmitry Lyskov
    Source: Pravda.Ru
    Another online scandal has been gathering pace recently. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, deleted an article by a Russian researcher, who wrote about the USA’s losses in the Great Depression of Indignant bloggers began to actively distribute the article on the Russian part of a popular blog service known as Livejournal. The above-mentioned article triggered a heated debate.
    The researcher (…)

  • Cargill : A Corporate Threat to Food and Farming
    16 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    International giant Cargill is one of a relatively small number of powerful corporations that control the global agricultural system.
    Cargill, among those with the widest and deepest influence, describes itself as an “international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services. With 158,000 employees in 66 countries, the company is committed to using its knowledge and experience to collaborate with customers to help them succeed.”
    Still in family hands, Cargill (…)

  • Food crisis hits local supermarkets
    29 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Food crisis hits local supermarkets
    JJ Levine , THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 28, 2008
    As worldwide rice prices are hitting record levels in fear of a shortage of rice, the knock-on effects are just beginning to be felt in Israeli supermarkets.
    Shoppers at some branches of supermarket chains Supersol and Mega on Friday and Saturday were amazed to find signs limiting purchases to two kilograms of rice per customer.
    In a statement released Sunday, Supersol explained that its policy was an (…)

  • Food Crisis, the World Bank and IMF (video, 4mn)
    25 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Viewpoint - Food Crisis
    The spate of food riots seen across the developing world in recent months lays bare the fragility of globalisation and is an indictment on the World Bank and IMF and their dogmatic free market liberalisation agenda.
    vidéo:
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19034971.html

  • WHY FOOD PRICES WILL GO THROUGH THE ROOF IN COMING MONTHS
    25 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    WHY FOOD PRICES WILL GO THROUGH THE ROOF IN COMING MONTHS
    by F. William Engdahl
    March 31, 2008
    A deadly fungus, known as Ug99, which kills wheat, has likely spread to Pakistan from Africa according to reports. If true, that threatens the vital Asian Bread Basket including the Punjab region. The spread of the deadly virus, stem rust, against which an effective fungicide does not exist, comes as world grain stocks reach the lowest in four decades and government subsidized bio-ethanol (…)

  • FOOD RATIONING HAS ARRIVED IN AMERICA
    23 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    FOOD RATIONING HAS ARRIVED IN AMERICA
    Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
    21 April 2008 By Josh Gerstein, New York Sun
    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — At a (…)

  • " We Feed The World" ("Le marché de la Faim") (film, 95mn)
    21 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The entire film:
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-18916488.html

  • The Health Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods, by Jeffrey Smith (videos)
    18 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is a lecture by Jeffrey Smith, in which he summarizes the contents of this book.
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-18274643.html

  • Gen Y, Food
    17 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Upon watching "Gen Y," ( , air date 04/22/2008 at 9pm Eastern & Pacific, run time 30 minutes) my first reaction was to want to defend my own generation and the one before - and it shames me to say that. It’s not that my generation or the previous one haven’t thought of environmentalism, because most of us have, just not on the scale or with the commitment Gen Y presents. At least, not yet. What I wish my first reaction had been, and what my second reaction was, way to go, Gen Y! I wish (…)

  • Rush to biofuels is driving up price of food
    16 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Independent.co.uk Saturday, 12 April 2008
    The other global crisis, By Paul Vallely
    A demonstrator eats grass in front of a U.N. Brazilian peacekeeping soldier during a protest against the high cost of living in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Source: Boston.com
    The world’s most powerful finance ministers and central bankers are meeting in Washington tomorrow; but as they preoccupy themselves with the global credit crunch, another crisis, far more grave, is facing the world’s (…)