Despite assertions by its detractors that wind energy would not survive an earthquake or tsunami the Japanese wind industry is still functioning and helping to keep the lights on during the Fuksuhima crisis. Mr. Ueda, the leader of the International Committee of the Japan World Power Association & Japan Wind Energy Association, confirms that most of the [...]
South American countries struggle to carve a niche out for themselves in the global market. Lands tended for generations by independent farmers in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia, are now being swallowed up by corporations to create massive soybean monocultures. In particular, half of Argentina’s cropland is now devoted to soy, and the crop [...]
Despite assertions by its detractors that wind energy would not survive an earthquake or tsunami the Japanese wind industry is still functioning and helping to keep the lights on during the Fuksuhima crisis. Mr. Ueda, the leader of the International Committee of the Japan World Power Association & Japan Wind Energy Association, confirms that most of the [...]
Gary Conklin, the owner of Conklin Dairy Farms in Ohio, was acquitted by a Union County grand jury of any criminal charges regarding accusations of animal abuse—despite video footage of animal abuse taking place at his farm. This protection of agribusinesses over farm animals is international: The Australian revealed that more than 90% of Australian [...]
Zambia is one of the poorest nations in the world, but in its northern providence of Luapula, mines that are filled with numerous minerals that could greatly help out the providence and the nation. Luapula also has a substantial amount of small famers that inhabit the lands of the providences richest mineral fields. The people [...]
Farm animals of today are so pumped full of steroids and growth hormones that is it decreasing their quality of life significantly. The American meat producers’ goal is to produce the meatiest animals regardless of the effects on the quality of their lives. An article in the Journal of Animal Science shed some light on [...]
On October 26, 2008, U.S. helicopters stormed a farm near the Iraq-Syria border and brutally killed 7 people within the farm walls. Anonymous Pentagon sources claimed that there was an Al-Qaeda terrorist, Abu Ghadiya, with in the walls of the farm. This terrorist is held responsible for smuggling men and arms across the Iraqi-Syrian border. [...]
