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Late Blight: Devastating Tomato And Potato Plants In The Eastern United States

Admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:41:29 +0000

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 before.

Meg McGrath, an associate professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology at Cornell says that "late blight has never occurred this early and this widespread in the U.S."

So how do you know if your plants have late blight?

Well, one symptom that you want to look for is ugly brown spots on the stems of your plants.

As those spots get larger, white fungal growth starts to develop until a soft rot totally collapses the stem.

If you think that you have late blight, authorities are encouraging you to destroy all of those plants.

With the Ug99 wheat rust already out of control, and with this "late blight" hitting the tomato and potato crops really hard, it looks like food prices are going to rise and there may even be shortages. Now is the time to ensure that you and your family have built an adequate emergency food supply.

Ug99: Will Wheat Rust Cause A Catastrophic Global Famine?

Admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:30:12 +0000

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 that The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico now estimates that 19 percent of the world's wheat crop, primarily located in Asia and Africa, is in imminent danger from Ug99. If Ug99 were to start spreading in the United States, it is estimated that approximately 10 billion dollars worth of wheat would be destroyed.

10 billion dollars.

That is a whole lot of bread.

The L.A. Times also reports that Rick Ward, the coordinator of the Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat project at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., says that "A significant humanitarian crisis is inevitable."

Did you catch that?

He said inevitable.

When scientists start using the word "inevitable" it is time for all of us to sit up and take notice.

Apparently Ug99 has already jumped the Red Sea and has affected areas as far as Iran already.

Wheat Experts say that wheat rust is poised to enter northern India and Pakistan, and that the wind will inevitably carry it to Russia, China and even North America.

If it doesn't arrive in North America some other way first.

Jim Peterson, a professor of wheat breeding and genetics at Oregon State University in Corvallis, does not sound optimistic about this crisis:

"It's a time bomb," he told the L.A. Times.

"It moves in the air, it can move in clothing on an airplane. We know it's going to be here. It's a matter of how long it's going to take."

Are you all starting to get the picture?

This is very, very serious.

If the worst case scenario comes to fruition, and 80 percent of the world's wheat crop is destroyed, what will you and your family do?

Do you have an emergency food supply?

As if things were not bad enough, wheat experts say that Ug99 is becoming even more virulent as it spreads.

This quote from the recent L.A. Times article on Ug99 is very frightening.....

Scientists discovered a Ug99 variant in 2006 that can defeat Sr24, a resistance gene that protects Great Plains wheat. Last year, another variant was found with immunity to Sr36, a gene that safeguards Eastern wheat.

It is not like the world has enough wheat right now anyway.

The truth is that exploding populations, record droughts across the globe and dwindling strategic food reserves in the major industrialized nations have brought the world to the very edge of a catastrophic global food crisis.

World food reserves currently sit at a fifty year low, and many experts are warning that we are now facing a "perfect storm" that will cause a dramatic spike in world hunger.

Even the major industrialized nations are not immune. With U.S. wheat reserves now at a record low, USDA Undersecretary Mark Keenum had to admit last year: "Our cupboard is bare."

Things have become so serious that even Time magazine has now declared that we are in "a global food crisis".

Most Americans would like to think that "wealthy nations" such as the United States are completely immune from world famine, but the truth is that the U.S. only has enough wheat held in reserve to make half a loaf of bread for each citizen.

Half a loaf of bread.

How long do you think that will last you and your family if Ug99 sweeps the globe?

If you won't listen to us, perhaps you will listen to the United Nations.

In a stunning new report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is warning that impoverished populations around the globe are feeling the pain of much higher food prices. The price of important crops such as rice, which is a key staple in many impoverished nations, spiked more than 400 percent last year. In fact, food riots broke out in many third world countries in 2008 when large numbers of people could suddenly not feed their families.

The effects of food shortages are not being seriously felt yet in the major industrialized nations where food represents about 10 to 20 percent of consumer spending, but in developing nations the poor often have to spend up to 80 percent of their meager income just on food.

Britain's chief scientist, Professor John Beddington, says that the global demand for food is going to increase by about 50 percent by 2030, and that this will cause massive global problems of unprecedented magnitude in the years ahead.

"It's a perfect storm," he told the GovNet Communications Sustainable Development 09 conference in London. "We're not growing enough food, so we're not able to put stuff into the reserves."

And his pessimistic forecast does not even include the impact of Ug99 on the world food supply.

The reality is that the world is quickly running out of food and more people than ever are hungry. Just consider these facts.....

*1 billion people in the world go to bed hungry every single night.

*Every 3.6 seconds someone starves to death and 3/4 are children under the age of 5.

*More than 2.8 billion people, close to half of the world's population, live on less than the equivalent of $2 a day.

*About a third of all children in the world under the age of five suffer from serious malnutrition.

*The top fifth (20 per cent) of the world's people who live in the highest income countries have access to 86 percent of world gross domestic product. The bottom fifth, in the poorest countries, have about one percent.

*The assets of the world's three richest men exceed the combined gross domestic products of the world's 48 poorest countries.

When you add all of this up, the reality is that we could very well be on the verge of the worst global famine in the history of humanity.

If we are to take the scientists and the government experts seriously, then it is very likely that there will come a day when you will not be able to run down to the local Wal-Mart or the local McDonald's and grab all of the food that you want.

Food shortages are coming. Will you and your family be ready with an emergency food supply?

For those of you who are interested in preparing, we encourage you to check out the links and resources that we have provided for you on this site.

Let us hope and pray that things will not be as bad as scientists now fear they may be.

But if a devastating global famine does strike, you and your family will be in a much better position if you have stored up a year or two of emergency food. Now is the time to build up your emergency food supply.

The Food Riots Of 2008

Admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:10:51 +0000

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.

In Ethiopia, it was not just children, the elderly, or the poor who were suffering. According to aid workers, starvation was hitting just about everyone.

You see most Americans don't care about things until it is affecting them, and they think that food shortages could never happen here.

Most Americans think that there will always be more than enough food in the United States.

But most Americans are wrong.

The truth is that we all need to pay attention to the food crisis around the world.....eventually it WILL effect all of us.

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The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009

Admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:34:52 +0000

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 here:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-875

This horrible bill would establish a "Food Safety Administration" within the Department of Health and Human Services. The mandate of this new department would be "to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes."

Section 3 of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 defines what type of establishments would be subject to the regulations in this legislation. It that section, a "food production facility" is defined this way:

The term ‘food production facility’ means any farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation.

So, that definition would include.....

*All organic farms
*All small farms
*All family farms
*Even small family gardens if you sell a single piece of produce to anyone

When you read this bill, you will see that it gives the U.S. government the power to regulate what "safe" farming is, and therefore if organic farmers are not using enough herbicide on their plants to be "safe" or they aren't following the same "quality control" procedures as the big corporations, then they could be instantly put out of business.

In addition, it burdens small farmers with massive amounts of paperwork and administrative headaches that they simply cannot handle but that the big corporations can.

You see, that is how you put a horde of small competitors out of business - you get the federal government to pile on the paperwork and the regulations until they totally collapse.

That is the reason why Monsanto desperately wants this bill. Monsanto hates small, independent farmers and they want to take them all out in one ruthless strike.

Monsanto would eagerly deal with the burden of more regulations and more paperwork if it will put large amounts of their competitors out of business.

And why in the world would the federal government want to put any food producers out of business when we are on the edge of a massive global food crisis?

The truth is that it is more important than ever to be building up an emergency food supply. The future looks more than just a little frightening.

The American Food Supply: Full Of Rat Excrement, Maggots And Insect Heads

Admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:20:00 +0000

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 other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml

Cornmeal - Average of 25 or more insect fragments per 25 grams

Cranberry Sauce - Average mold count of 15%

Fig Paste - 13 or more insect heads per 100 grams of fig paste

Macaroni And Noodle Products - Average of 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams

Mushrooms - Average of over 20 or more maggots of any size per 100 grams of drained mushrooms

Crushed Oregano - Average of 300 or more insect fragments per 10 grams

Peanut Butter - Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams

Spinach - Average of 50 or more aphids, thrips and/or mites per 100 grams

Tomato Paste, Pizza And Other Sauces - Average of 30 or more fly eggs per 100 grams OR 15 or more fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 100 grams

Wheat - Average of 9 mg or more rodent excreta pellets and/or pellet fragments per kilogram

Are you starting to get the picture?

We don't know about you, but we do not want ANY insect heads in our fig paste.

But, oh boy, if there is a 14th insect head in 100 grams of fig paste THEN the food producers get into big trouble.

No wonder so many people are getting sick from their food.

Even the ingredients in our food supply that are supposedly "safe" have been found to be quite the opposite.

Remember all those commercials recently that told us how safe and wonderful high fructose corn syrup is?

Well, it turns out that definitely is not the case after all.

In one stunning new study, almost half of the tested samples of commercial high fructose corn syrup contained significant levels of mercury. In addition, the same study found mercury in almost a third of 55 popular brand name food and beverage products where high fructose corn syrup is the first or second listed ingredient.

If you are not familiar with high fructose corn syrup, you should be. It is in thousands of our food and beverage products.

Go into your refrigerator and look at how many products it is in.

And the truth is that it is chock full of mercury.

You see, mercury is a highly toxic heavy metal.

Among other things, mercury can cause serious brain damage, deafness and blindness. It is incredibly harmful for humans.

But it tastes so good!

And who cares if there are insect fragments in our peanut butter?

After all, it tastes so great on a piece of toast!

The truth is that we live in a society where it is hard to trust anyone or anything.

In the past we could eat dinner without any worries, but we are moving into a time when we are going to have to think very carefully about what we are putting into our bodies. Please be sure that you are putting safe, healthy food products into your emergency food supply.

The FDA: No Warning Labels Required On Food From Genetically Modified Animals

Admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:49:36 +0000

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 soon will we all see these abominations show up on our supermarket shelves?

NaturalNews reports that the FDA is ready to approve genetically engineered animals for introduction into the food chain.

Since the FDA refuses to require any special labeling, when food from genetically modified animals does show up in the stores you will not even know it.

The following is a description of this genetic engineering process from the FDA's own website: "Genetic engineering generally refers to the use of recombinant DNA (rDNA) techniques to introduce new characteristics or traits into an organism. When scientists splice together pieces of DNA and introduce a spliced DNA segment into an organism to give the organism new properties, it's called rDNA technology. The spliced piece of DNA is called the rDNA construct. A GE animal is one that contains an rDNA construct intended to give the animal new characteristics or traits."

Scientists in China have even created a fluorescent green pig, and some of the offspring from that pig even had fluorescent features.

Are any of you disturbed by this?

Most Americans aren't.

After all, Americans have been gobbling down food produced from genetically modified plants for a long time.

The truth is that almost all corn and almost all soy that you buy has been genetically altered.

And guess what?

These genetically modified crops are getting people sick.

One German court actually ordered Monsanto to release to the public a controversial ninety day study on rats that reported that rats fed genetically modified corn developed the following conditions: "allergies (increased basophils), in response to infections, toxins and various diseases including cancer (increased lymphocytes and white blood cells), and in the presence of anemia (decreased reticulocyte count) and blood pressure problems (decreased kidney weights). There were also increased blood sugar levels, kidney inflammation, liver and kidney lesions, and other changes."

Kind of makes you want a corn on the cob right now, eh?

The reality is that introducing genetically modified animals and crops into our food chain is MUCH more damaging to the environment than global warming ever could be.

And you know what the truly frightening thing is?

Once we let these engineered plants and animals out into the environment and they start breeding and reproducing we can NEVER put the genie back into the bottle.

We are permanently changing the earth, and if these changes end up being catastrophic there will be very little that we can do to turn back the clock.

In the name of scientific advancement, we may be unleashing a catastrophe upon our food supply that we will never be able to rectify.

Perhaps in the future we will all look back and realize that we should have just left nature alone.

Cloned Animals In Our Food Supply?

Admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:57:01 +0000

Are there cloned animals in our food supply? Most people would scoff at such an idea.

But most people do not know the facts.

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.

Of course, considering the fact that we eat tomatoes with roach genes in them and we eat corn with insecticide grown inside of it, why should we be worried about some cloned animals in our food supply, eh?