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A food strategy that doesn’t challenge the power and control of dominant grain and food corporations is a wasteful fools errand.
The last thing our “Elbows Up international banker” prime minister will do is challenge the world’s wealthiest powerful corporations who harms Canadians and all the other ordinaries of the world.
“CEREAL SECRETS
The world's largest grain traders and global
agriculture
The four big commodity traders – Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus, collectively referred to as ‘the ABCD companies’ – are dominant traders of grain globally and central to the modern agri-food system. This report considers the ABCDs in relation to several global issues pressing on agriculture
NFU condemns destruction of AAFC organic research assets | National Farmers Union
On June 9 and 10th 2026, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada at the Swift Current Research and Development Centre proceeded with destruction of the Organic and…Cathy Holtslander (National Farmers Union)
Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated.
From Science News: "Vaccines that target invertebrates’ innate immune systems could be a major boon for agriculture."
#Animals #Science #Vaccines #Agriculture
Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated
A shrimp vaccine for commercial use could protect the environment and prove vaccines aren’t just for vertebrates.Lily Burton (Science News)
New today: As civil rights leader Reverend Jim Lawson famously put it, “plantation capitalism” controls our lives. We are either the oppressed or the oppressors. There is no middle ground. texasobserver.org/la-causa-sig…
#food #workers #agriculture #farming #politics #USpol #news
'La Causa' Continues in South Texas
We cannot ignore César’s influence and leadership. At the same time, we must acknowledge his abuse, support the victims, and condemn any other similar conduct in a movement that was never about one person, no matter how iconic.Jim Harrington (The Texas Observer)
This morning we had the wonderful opportunity to go on a sunrise tour of Xochimilco, in the south of Mexico City, to explore the floating gardens that have powered Indigenous agriculture here for millenia.
chinampaproject.org/the-chinam…
Not only was it beautiful, we got to taste the produce. The canal regeneration project, in its current modern revived form, supplies the best restaurants in Mexico City and also local families through CSA-type boxes.
A blog post about the experience: bmorenomadic.com/cdmx-sunrise-…
The tour we booked
arcatierra.com/producto/sunris…
#Mexico #Chinampa #Xochimilco #Agriculture #Food
The Chinampas - Chinampa Project
Chinampas are floating gardens—ingenious, man-made islands used for agriculture since pre-Hispanic times, especially in the Valley of MexicoWhat Is a Chinampa?In the south of Mexico City, lies one of humanity's most remarkable agricultural innovation…Chinampa Project
