Small farming solution for world hunger - NewsGrabs Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese Proverb U.N. chief: Hunger kills 17,000 kids daily U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon laid out this sobering statistic as he kicked off a three-day summit on world food security Monday in Rome. Urgent action is critical, Ban said. In 2050, the world will need to feed 2 billion more mouths -- 9.1 billion in all. The steps Ban proposed included providing farmers with seeds and land and offering them access to better markets and fairer trade. "These small-holder farmers are the heart and soul of food security and poverty reduction," he said....

Codex Nutrient Reference Values Delayed - NewsGrabs Thursday, 12 November 2009
Codex Alimentarius takes a step back on Nutrient Reference Values November 2-6, 2009, the 31st Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) met in Dusseldorf, Germany to continue its work in developing standards for global nutrition. Some 260 delegates were in attendance, comprised of various countries’ functionaries and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) representatives... Projected Food supplement ban in 2010 may contravene EU law The Alliance for Natural Health said it was mystified why sulphur was excluded from the list of allowed minerals when the Directive already allowed a number of sulphate salts of minerals, all of

US: House Vote on Health Care Bill Imminent - NewsGrabs Friday, 6 November 2009
US: House Poised to Vote on Government Take-over of Health Care For those of you living in the US: check out what the National Health Federation has to say about the coming expansion of the health care or rather disease care system and its projected effects on freedom of choice. The reform bill is to be voted on in the House of Representatives on Saturday 7 November. You might want to call your representatives to give them a piece of your mind... Don’t enclose our broccoli! (No Patents on Seeds and Animals campaign) “The continuing patenting of seeds, conventional plant varieties and animal species leads to far-reaching expropriations of farmers and breeders: farmers are deprived of...

Swine Flu Epidemic Dropping off - NewsGrabs Monday, 2 November 2009
Amid all the disastrous swine flu news, here is a different point of view to consider: "I would like to point out that S. and myself published on the effective technology of Washing hands about 3 years back. We also predicted the failure of all the "approved" technologies. Now! I have good news. The Flu epidemic is OVER folks. It will be a memory before the vaccinations get a chance to work. Within the next 3 weeks the epidemic will be reduced to a mere 15% fraction of its current level. It has already spiked over and is rapidly dropping off. You can get the facts by Google (Key Words: Flu, Map). Once the spike drops...

Larry Leptin's Halloween Candy - NewsGrabs Thursday, 29 October 2009
Video: Larry Leptin's Halloween Candy Monsanto’s Toxic and Mutated World – Is Sugar Safe to Eat? Of course, GMO sugar, like other GMO “foods,” doesn’t need to be labeled as such (because nobody in their right mind would buy it if it were). Half the refined sugar in the U.S. is from beets – and insiders say the industry has quickly converted to the GMO Frankenfood beets, estimating up to 95% of farmers are now using them. Beet sugar is often mixed with cane sugar, meaning that unless a product lists the ingredient as cane sugar or organic cane sugar then it now likely contains GMO mutant beet-derived sugar. Video: Everything You HAVE TO KNOW About Dangerou