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Rep. Massie: PATRIOT Act Expiration is Good, But What About NSA Breaking the Law?
Rep. Massie delivers a floor speech on June 1, 2015 - the morning after three controversial provisions of the PATRIOT Act expired on why it is important for civil liberties.
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Man Gets Prison Sentence For Collecting Rainwater On His Property
Collecting rainwater on your own property can now lead to jail time, as proven by a man from Oregon who was sentenced to prison for doing just that. Who owns the rain? The
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India: Selling Out To MonsantoIndia: Selling Out To Monsanto. GMOs and the Bigger Picture. GMOs and the Bigger Picture
On 15 August, India will mark its 67th anniversary of independence from Britain. It may seem strange to some that a nation would publicly celebrate its independence while at the same time it less
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Court Rules: Organic Farms Not Protected From Cross-Contamination
An organic farmer has lost a GMO lawsuit which supporters worldwide hoped would be a landmark victory for all-natural farming. Farmer Steve Marsh of Australia believed that genetically modified canola had drifted onto his land,
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FDA To Ban Organic Farming?
Farming methods that have been used in America and throughout the world for centuries are in danger of essentially being banned under proposed regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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Organic Farmer & Winemaker Faces Jail Time for Refusing to Spray Pesticides
The French agriculture ministry is prosecuting Emmanuel Giboulot, an organic winemaker, for failing to apply insecticide to his vines. The ministry wants insecticide to be sprayed to control the leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus—believed to be
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People Who Grow Their Own Food Labeled Extremist By Dept. Of Defense
If the founding fathers were reincarnated today, they’d probably start another revolution, this time to break away from an American government that has become far too imperial for its own good. And as such, they’d
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Farmers To Face Fines Or Prison Sentences For Selling Food Directly To Customers
This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly. For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the farmers are
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Monsanto demands $1 billion in court
Four weeks into a trial between two titans of the biotech industry, Monsanto Co. claimed on Tuesday that its biggest competitor, DuPont, owes them $1 billion for infringing on their patent for herbicide-tolerant lab-made
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GMO wars – Monsanto suing DuPont to see who will dominate the world’s food supply
Biotechnology giant Monsanto is suing one of its largest rivals, DuPont, for what the company says are violations of a licensing agreement established between the two firms back in 2002. And at the very
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Monsanto Faced with Paying 7.5 Billion Back to Farmers
Monsanto may soon be forced to pay as much as 7.5 billion dollars back to the farmers who say that the mega corporation took their rightfully earned income and taxed their small businesses to
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Seeds of doubt: Brazilian farmers sue Monsanto
Five million Brazilian farmers are locked in a lawsuit with US-based biotech giant Monsanto, suing for as much as 6.2 billion euros. They say that the genetic-engineering company has been collecting royalties on crops
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Street Riots Form in Response to Monsanto Intrusion into Nepal
After the Nepalese government decided to allow Monsanto into their borders and subsequently force farmers to use genetically modified seeds, the citizens took to the streets
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Farmers defend their right to grow food: Appeal filed in family farmers vs. Monsanto case
The plaintiffs in a case seeking protection from Monsanto's predatory patent lawsuits have filed a Notice of Appeal challenging the case's recent dismissal by Judge Naomi Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the
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Explosive: Monsanto ‘Knowingly Poisoned Workers’ Causing Devastating Birth Defects
In a developing news piece just unleashed by a courthouse news wire, Monsanto is being brought to court by dozens of Argentinean tobacco farmers who say that the biotech giant knowingly poisoned them
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Monsanto’s GMO Seeds Contributing to Farmer Suicides Every 30 Minutes
n what has been called the single largest wave of recorded suicides in human history, Indian farmers are now killing themselves in record numbers. It has been extensively reported, even in mainstream news, but
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