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Mapping The Rural Food Desert

http://theruralsite.blogspot.com/2011/05/mapping-rural-food-desert.html this image links to the Food Desert Locator
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One of the nation’s senior soil scientists alerted the federal government to a newly discovered organism that may have the potential to cause infertility and spontaneous abortion in farm animals, raising significant concerns about human health. Dr. http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_22625.cfm

Researcher: Roundup or Roundup-Ready Crops May Be Causing Animal Miscarriages and Infertility

http://grist.org/article/how-the-agrichemical-industry-turns-failure-into-market-opportunity/ It’s always blue skies for the agrichemical industry Monsanto rolled out seeds genetically engineered to withstand its Roundup herbicide back in the mid-1990s.

How the agrichemical industry turns failure into market opportunity