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In February, a private organization with unique powers over world industry, trade and agriculture, issued a Preliminary Draft Ruling on a three-year-old case. The case was brought by the Bush Administration in May 2003 against European Union rules hindering the spread of genetically-engineered plants and foods. The WTO ruling, which is to be final in December, will have more influence over life and death on this planet than most imagine.
Rachel's Democracy & Health News #848
"Environment, health, jobs and justice--Who gets to decide?"
Thursday, March 30, 2006
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The fact that electronic voting machines don't work may finally be sinking into a segment of the mainstream media. The fact that e-voting machines can, have been, and will be used to steal elections, continues to go unreported.
At least the corporate media has moved from framing the allegations of e-voting fraud as conspiracy theory into reporting epic errors in election results.
Frequently Asked Questions About the W.T.O.
Dr. Robert L. Thompson <http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/thompson/index.html ,
the Gardner Chair in Agricultural Policy at the University of Illinois, has provided an excellent recap summary and explanation addressing eight frequently asked questions about the W.T.O., which was posted recently at the University's farmdoc webpage
That could be a Letterman riff but it's for real -- the beer anyway. Anheuser-Busch, whose empire is built on Bud and Bud Light, is test-marketing its first organic beer in the North Bay, Santa Barbara and six other smallish cities around the country.
It's a lager that goes by Wild Hop, not organic Bud, and it's being cold-brewed in at the St. Louis-based company's Fairfield plant. A second organic beer, Stone Mill Pale Ale, is being brewed at Anheuser-Busch's Redhook brewery in Portsmouth, N.H., and will be here shortly.
WASHINGTON - Americans are nearly as worried about their country's dependence on foreign energy sources as they are about the war in Iraq, a poll released by the magazine Foreign Affairs showed on Thursday.
Almost half of the 1,000 Americans surveyed for the Public Agenda Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index gave U.S. policymakers a failing grade in weaning the country from foreign oil. Nearly 90 percent said the lack of energy independence jeopardizes national security.
This spoof of the Matrix movies details the horrors of dairy factory farms,
through the adventures of Leo the pig and Moopheus the cow. Entertaining, adventurous, and informative, this short animated film by our partner organization Sustainable Table is worth watching.
Check out
http://www.themeatrix2.com
~Audrey Hill
food@fwwatch.org
Food & Water Watch
