Emergency Food

Doesn't it seem as though there are more crop diseases than ever popping up in 2009?  The latest crisis is a disease known as "late blight", and it is absolutely devastating tomato and potato plants in the eastern half of the United States.  As if tomatoes were not expensive enough already.  Most Americans have never even heard of "late blight", but it actually has a long history.  Late blight is the disease that is blamed for the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, and now it is seemingly back with a vengeance.

A stunning press release from Cornell University is warning gardeners and commercial farmers that late blight is hitting the eastern United States with a ferocity that has never been seen (Read More....)

Will a wheat rust that the vast majority of Americans have never heard of lead to a catastrophic global famine?  Agricultural scientists now fear that Ug99, a devastating wheat fungus also known as stem rust, could wipe out over 80 percent of the world's wheat crop as it spreads from Africa all across the globe. In a world already on the verge of a massive food crisis, this is incredibly frightening news.  Most Americans have never even heard of Ug99, but the truth is that it is considered by experts to be the most serious threat to the world food supply.  Ug99 is known as "stem rust" because it produces reddish-brown flakes on wheat stalks. It is incredibly deadly and there is no known cure for it.

The Los Angeles Times recently reported(Read More....)

Most Americans laugh at the idea of building up an emergency food supply.  But let us consider what happened in 2008 when food prices spiked and millions were suddenly facing an unexpected food shortage.  The following articles are from last summer during the height of the food riots around the world, and they illustrate what could happen around the world when the next big food crisis hits.....

Thousands of starving citizens clashed with police in Egypt over flour rations.

A North Korean father killed his starving family and then took his own life in despair over the lack of food.

Looted shops burned in Haiti as the food crisis there escalated out of control.

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Have you heard of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009?  The title sounds wonderful.  It sounds like it means that we are going to have safer food.  But that is not what this bill is about.  The truth is that is the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 is passed, it will likely mean the end of independent organic farming in the United States. The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 was introduced by Democrat Rosa DeLauro back in February. Her introduction of this bill represents a shocking conflict of interest, because her husband, Stanley Greenburg, works for Monsanto. Monsanto is the world's biggest producer of herbicides and genetically engineered seeds, and they would massively benefit if thousands of small independent organic farmers were put out of business, because most independent organic farmers do not use Monsanto products.

You can view the full text of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 h (Read More....)

Do you know what you are eating? Most Americans simply do not understand that the FDA actually allows rat excrement, maggots and insect heads to be put into their food. The FDA only allows a small amount of these things, but they do explicitly allow them.  You don't believe this?  Well, you can read it for yourself.  The FDA has published a pamphlet entitled “The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans” that tells food producers exactly how many "natural contaminants" are allowed in our food.  The following are just some examples of the allowable levels of "natural contaminants" that the FDA lists in the pamphlet.....

Canned Citrus Juices (such as orange juice) - 5 or more Drosophila and (Read More....)

Do you think that the FDA is actually trying to protect the safety of your food supply?  Think again.  The FDA has officially announced that it WILL NOT require warning labels on food that is produced from genetically modified animals.  So now you will never even know if the food that you are buying or eating comes from a genetically engineered lifeform.  Seriously.  Do you actually want to eat food from a spider-goat or a cow-pig?  Those "lifeforms" actually exist thanks to our scientists.  In fact, WebMD says that dozens of genetically modified animals are under development as you read this.  So how so (Read More....)

The FDA has now announced that the offspring of cloned animals could be in our food supply right now and that there is nothing that they can do about it.   Nothing they can do about it?  They can micromanage a thousand other elements of our food production, but they can't do a thing about cloned animals in our food supply?  This madness is even spreading to Europe.  EU agriculture ministers have now decided that cloned meat and milk should be allowed into European supermarkets.  Apparently they feel that meat and milk from cloned animals is perfectly safe and they aren't really worried about it.  

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