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The supposed World Health Organization-Chinese government“investigation” into the origins of COVID-19 is becoming widely exposed in the global media as a sham, orchestrated by Chinese Communist officials, WHO bureaucrats (funded by the US, China, and Bill Gates), complicit scientists who carry out dangerous lab engineering of viruses, and US funders of the Wuhan Lab disaster including Anthony Fauci from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Peter Daszak from the Eco-Health Alliance.
Around 68 percent of the world’s agricultural lands (eight billion acres as compared to four billion acres of croplands) are used for grazing. The majority of these landscapes are unsuitable for cropping. They are home to over a billion people who are dependent on the livestock that graze on them for their living. These landscapes are often some of most degraded lands on the planet due to deforestation and inappropriate grazing practices.
The good news is that there are a range of grazing systems that are proven to regenerate these ecosystems, increasing ground covers, biodiversity, soil organic matter, water holding capacity, and production outcomes.
In a Facebook LIVE conducted on December 3, 2020, renowned environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate and author, Vandana Shiva, called on citizens worldwide to rise up for food democracy to protect ourselves and the planet.
The one-hour event also included guest speakers Ronnie Cummins, international director of the Organic Consumers Association, Andre Leu, international director of Regeneration International and Hans Herren, president of the Millennium Institute and Biovision.
The following is a transcript of the video.
In the future, who will control food and farming, health and medicine, information and communication, law and government, money and commerce?
The corporate cartels began with their GMOs, pesticides and fake foods. Monsanto tried to make seed saving illegal.
Now the monopolistic mafias are using the pandemic as an excuse to shut down small farms. They want their tech tools completely deregulated to execute their plans through unfettered data harvesting, policing and surveillance.
Our most recent webinar tackles these important issues and more.
Never before have the tech billionaires been poised to take so much power over our bodies, our lives or our future.
Let’s rise up for food democracy to protect ourselves and our planet!
This year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to two scientists―Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna―“who transformed an obscure bacterial immune mechanism, commonly called CRISPR, into a tool that can simply and cheaply edit the genomes of everything from wheat to mosquitoes to humans.”
According to the Nobel Prize committee the “genetic scissors” of CRISPR “have taken the life sciences into a new epoch and, in many ways, are bringing the greatest benefit to humankind.”
But have they? Really?
COVID-19, perhaps like no other crisis in recent history, has reminded us of the importance of good health.
This global pandemic has also revealed just how fragile our food and farming system, our healthcare system and our entire economy, really are.
Now, more than ever, we need to build resiliency and regeneration into our personal health, our food system, our healthcare system, our economy, our environment—and yes, even our democracy.
Please take a moment to watch this message from our founder and director, Ronnie Cummins.
You probably don’t give antibiotics much thought—until you need them. But what happens if you need them, and they don’t work?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says antibiotic-resistant bacteria and fungi cause more than 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. On average, someone in the U.S. gets an antibiotic-resistant infection every 11 seconds. And every 15 minutes someone dies.
One of the big reasons infections have grown resistant to antibiotics? Industrial factory farms—which use nearly 12 million pounds of medically important antibiotics every year to stave off diseases caused by filthy, crowded conditions, and (though they don’t like to admit it), to make animals grow faster.
What could be better this Thanksgiving than giving thanks to the farmers who made your Thanksgiving feast possible?
Thanking farmers every day, by buying local organic regenerative all year round.
As we wrote last week, we’re invested in the climate movement for a number of reasons, including this one: Floods, droughts and extreme temperatures will ultimately lead to a food crisis.
Nobody knows this better than farmers.
And farmers are already struggling with the impact of climate change.
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