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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
Flower power: Fighting the Man with guerrilla gardens
Grist - 5/3/2013.
By Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan - I’ve never thought of myself as much of a rebel. You generally won’t find me smashing car windows or setting garbage cans aflame. (Let’s get real: You probably won’t find me speeding. Such are the depths of my rule-following nature.) But I realize now that all along, I’ve just been waiting for the right weapon with which to battle The Man. Wildflowers, of course.
Genetically modified foods may stay incognito
Portland Press Herald - 5/3/2013.
AP: Montpelier, Vt. - With time ticking down in this year's Vermont Legislative session, it's becoming clear that lawmakers won't pass a bill requiring labels on genetically modified food before wrapping up their work for 2013.
Farmers, producers in Washington County join statewide push to promote, produce more local food
Bangor Daily News - 5/3/2013.
By Sharon Kiley Mack - Building on an effort throughout New England to increase local food production and promote healthier eating, farmers, producers, nutritionists and consumers gathered here Thursday to set goals and develop a strategy for Washington County.
PR push by ag and biotech industries has a secret weapon: Moms
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 5/3/2013.
By Georgina Gustin - Betsie Estes is a mother of two young kids who lives in suburban Chicago. She’s also public relations gold. Last week, Estes was in the audience at an annual biotechnology industry conference in Chicago, attended by the industry’s power players, Creve Coeur-based Monsanto Co., and its competitors, Bayer, Dow, DuPont, among them.
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