Sentences with phrase «big agriculture»

The rates of chronic disease just keep going up the more big agriculture tells us to eat these common crops.

Can it compete with the political influence of big agriculture here, and, any time soon, with coal in China?

These crops, being embraced by big agriculture in the U.S., carry genes that imbue them with resistance to herbicides and lace their tissues with a bacterial toxin harmless to humans but fatal to pests that may try to feed on them.

The loudest voices on the proponent side are typically cast as shills for Big Agriculture (some of them are), while the loudest on the anti-GMO side are typically cast as fear - mongering luddites (some of them are).

Today, Citigroup spit the bit on two big agriculture names.

Bayer agreed to take over Monsanto to become one of the world's biggest agriculture conglomerates.

The prepared foods and big agriculture industries were not the only ones pushing back against the new USDA rules.

Both are just as bad as big agriculture lobbies.

At Nellie's, the hens are treated with respect — the way farms used to operate before big agriculture and mass production became the norm.

It has been genetically transformed by the world's biggest agriculture companies to maximize yield and profit, and is now one of the leading causes of obesity and serious health problems all around the world.

Not because we can't, but because big agriculture is more focused on things like corn and soybeans.

During the last eight years, the Obama administration pursued aggressive food labeling policies to the chagrin of much of big food and big agriculture.

Large biofuel firms like Abengoa Bioenergy U.S., Iberdrola U.S.A., Pacific Ethanol, and POET joined the pledge, while some of the biggest agriculture firms — like Cargill and Monsanto (MON)-- did as well.

They pretend to be fiscally conservative, but never protest wars of choice that cost a $ 1 billion in taxpayer money a day, or surreal levels of subsidies to BIG agriculture and energy companies that make a total mockery of every aspect of the Free Market.

To this end we were «treated» to a soon to be released movie, «Farmageddon» (2), which documents the unprecedented raids being inflicted on small farms and food buying clubs for daring to defy the monopolies of the big agriculture and food corporations.

Because of its use on the fringes of big agriculture, goat's milk is more nutritious and less toxic.

The documentary Dog by Dog provides an educational view of how big money and big agriculture have influenced what laws do and don't get passed to regulate the industry.

With so many pesticides being used in big agriculture, is it any wonder that our beleaguered pollinators have been dying at such an alarming rate?

Having gone to high school and college in Sacramento, right next to Davis CA, I know that school has always been a big, as in corporate, school in some ways, so even their sustainable study might be a little blind to or at least sympathetic to big agriculture.

I agree with Ropeik that foes of big agriculture will reject this approach to labeling, but I see it moving forward regardless.

This measure is the tip of the spear in an all - out assault by developers, Big Agriculture and the fossil fuel industry against efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers to protect the public from dangerous pollution in their drinking water supplies and in the bodies of water in which they fish and swim,» Jon Devine, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told ThinkProgress in an email.

Ending the practice is another story — we'll have to keep our eyes peeled for any big agriculture ideas when Obama delivers the budget.

George Monbiot shares this pessimistic view, stating that dairy is the biggest agriculture problem that we do not wish to see: «Imagine how we would respond if this were any other industrial sector.

Ethanol is just a huge boondoggle gift to big agriculture and its supporting cast (fertilizers made from natural gas etc) without any net benefit to everyday consumers.