Bees are the new peak oil In what Rep. Dennis Cardoza, chair of the House horticulture and organic agriculture subcommittee, is calling a “full-fledged crisis,” a whopping 36 per cent of commercial hives have vanished already this year. Considering that 1/3 of our food supply depends on the little buggers for pollination, we’d call it that too.
Virginia is the new Washington The Commonwealth has followed the Evergreen State in passing legislation to set up a farm-to-school program.
Farm Aid is the new Red Cross We hear from the irresistible fleet of bicycles that Farm Aid is putting their Family Farm Disaster Fund to work providing support for all those family farmers throughout the Midwest who are in crisis due to recent flooding and extreme weather.
GMO is not the new answer In a refreshing burst of frankness, Syngenta chairman Martin Taylor recently admitted that biotech can’t solve the current food crisis (as their PR machine would have us believe). Taylor sites timeliness–it would take about 20 years to develop and implement the new technology–but we think there are other reasons it’s a bad idea.
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