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Good News: Huge Victories Accomplished Against GMOs, Big Pharma, Animal Cruelty

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Much more and more, our collective activism is reshaping the planet economy to punish criminal corporations and demand transparency on subjects like GMOs, drug patents, animal cruelty and far more. And we are winning on each and every front!

This past week saw a flurry of news exactly where huge corporations like Merck and Monsanto have been handed groundbreaking defeats thanks to consumer activism.

Here are the highlights:

Tyson Foods to halt obtain of cows raised with Zilmax

&nbspTyson Foods, the country’s biggest purchaser of beef, announced it would stop acquiring beef from cows raised on Zilmax, the “animal cruelty” drug that makes cows so heavy they cannot stroll on their personal, forcing slaughterhouse workers to drag the cows to their own deaths.

Zilmax has been extremely criticized by animal welfare activists, and massive boycotts were already becoming planned that could have cost Tyson tens of millions of dollars in profits. Tyson smartly pre-empted the planned boycotts by abandoning Zilmax.

See this Merck propaganda video from 2011 where Merck’s marketing manager for Zilmax, a sinister drug dealer named Mitch Johnson, touts the “extra profit” ranchers can make by pumping their cows full of cruel drugs: http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/Beef-booster-Zilmax-13301315…&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp

New Study: Fungicides May possibly Be Killing Bees

For connected articles and much more details, please pay a visit to OCA’s Genetic Engineering web page, Millions Against Monsanto web page and our Honey Bee Wellness page.

Bee populations are dwindling across the globe, putting 1 in 3 meals crops like apples and almonds, which rely on pollination from bees, at critical risk.

In the US, beekeepers have reported annual losses of about 33 % of their hives each and every year, a level of loss that the Agricultural Study Solutions reports could threaten the financial viability of the bee pollination market if it continues (and some beekeepers report a lot larger losses than this at upwards of 70 or, in some instances, one hundred percent).

Regardless of the growing losses, the causes of the enormous bee die-offs have yet to be firmly defined, although accumulating study is pointing to a cocktail of agricultural chemical substances as a probably main culprit.

New Study: Fungicides Might Be Killing Bees

Systemic neonicotinoid pesticides have been increasingly blamed for bee deaths (and have been implicated in a recent mass bee die-off of 25,000 bumblebees along with millions of bee deaths in Canada), prompting the European Union (EU) to ban them for two years.

Now, it seems measures that target single classes of pesticides, even though a move in the appropriate path, may be falling quick. In a very first-of-its-kind study, researchers analyzed pollen from bee hives in seven main crops and found 35 various pesticides along with high fungicide loads. Each and every sample contained, on typical, nine diverse pesticides and fungicides, even though one contained 21 various chemicals.

Moreover, when the pollen was fed to wholesome bees, they had a important decline in the capability to resist infection with the Nosema ceranae parasite, which has been implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp

How is carbon brought into a farm?

Question by CBA: How is carbon brought into a farm?
I need to locate out three methods in which carbon is brought into an organic farm. I currently have 1 which is by means of animal manure so i just need to have two much more.
I also require three methods in which it is taken out of the farm.
Thanks in advance.

Greatest answer:

Answer by Ólafur G
A lot of farms are attempting to decrease their carbon footprint and be greener. Vehicles bring carbon onto the farm when they haul goods onto the property. Organic fertilizer hauled into the farm consists of organic carbon that serves as an power source for soil microorganisms.

You can remove carbon from the farm by naturally recycling it by means of the plants by means of animal fertilizer. Forests planted on and surrounding the farm can absorb carbon dioxide and export oxygen. Carbon can seep into groundwater and leave the farm as effectively, certainly that is not a desirable factor to do although as it can cause overall health issues in the watershed.

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