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Tuesday! Mar 22 2005 // 2:18 pm // Mixed bagSenators voted to keep $2.8 billion in ag budget cuts. “Congress and the President made a commitment to rural America in 2002 to adequately fund farm, nutrition, conservation, research and rural development programs thru 2007,” said [National Farmers Union President] Frederickson. “Passage of this budget reneges on that promise and re-opens the 2002 farm bill after just three years of the six year commitment.” ***** “…the widespread adoption of herbicide-resistant cultivars…has dramatically impacted weed communities. Weed population shifts to naturally resistant species and to species with inherent biological characteristics that make the populations difficult to manage (e.g. delayed emergence), as well as the evolution of herbicide-resistant weed populations are real. Another problem is the emergence of the herbicide-resistant crops themselves as volunteer weeds. The speed at which these changes have occurred is cause for significant concern.” From a press release by Third World Network. ***** “…fast-food giant Taco Bell Corp. has agreed to work with a Florida-based labour organisation to increase the wages and improve the working conditions of thousands of workers in the state’s huge tomato industry” ***** Science-Based Organic Farming: A Resource for Educators, a reference from the Universtiy of Nebraska Extension. ***** Vermont could pass legislation to hold seed companies, not farmers, liable for crop contamination by bioengineered crops ***** “Confidence in government and particularly in government regulation is compromised whenever the independence of those making decisions, including those empowered to regulate, is called into question.” The Revolving Door, a searchable database about people who have worked in/for both government and industry, with emphasis on those connected to the biotechnology industry. |
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