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Big Ag's Big Lie About Organic Food PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009

Big Ag's Big Lie About Organic Food

By Jill Richardson, Daily Kos
Posted on June 23, 2009, Printed on June 24, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://www.dailykos.com//140847/

 

You've actually been told a lot of lies, but right now I'm going to focus on just one. It comes in many different forms:

     

  1. Organics yield less/much less/half as much as conventional ag.

     

  1. Organics can never feed the world.

     

  1. We need pesticides/fertilizer/biotech to feed the world.

     

  1. American farmers need to feed the world.

     

  1. If we tried to feed the world with organic, because it yields less than conventional ag, that means we'd have to use more land to grow the same amount of food (and cut down the forests).

     

  1. Third world countries need pesticides/fertilizer/biotech (bought from American/multinational corporations) or else they won't be able to feed themselves.

No doubt it would be DISASTROUS if we all switched to organic and then we didn't have enough food to feed everybody! But that's only if you buy into the idea that organic cannot compete with yields from conventional farming AND the idea that hunger is caused by producing too little food (it's not). Well... here's what the largest study ever conducted to study this question found...

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Forever 21 declares warehouse will be finished by 2011 PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 12 June 2009

Forever 21 to Develop South Central L.A. Land

June 12, 2009

A spokesperson for Los Angeles retailer Forever 21 said the company plans to proceed with a plan to develop a controversial swatch of land near downtown Los Angeles into a facility to handle its e-commerce business.

The company is working with developer Ralph Horowitz, who is seeking entitlements from the city of Los Angeles. The 14-acre parcel, located at 41st and Alameda, has become a hot potato for Forever 21 because the developer allowed a portion of the land to be turned into a community garden for South Central Los Angeles residents, many of whom are at or near the poverty level. The developer pulled the plug on the project two years ago, but the farmers want their farming plots back

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***Breaking News****Julia Butterfly Hill and Daryl Hannah Join the South Central Farmers PDF Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Tuesday, 09 June 2009

SOUTH CENTRAL FARMERS Press Release

 

For Immediate Release

Media Contacts

June 10, 2009

Danny Santana

Liz Chavez

***Breaking News***

Julia Butterfly Hill and Daryl Hannah Join the South Central Farmers
To Take Back the Farm

Saturday, June 13, 6:00-11:30 p.m. Reunion at the Farm

Update to Press Release

SAVE THE FARM
SAVE THE WORKERS
SAVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD

LOS ANGELES--On Saturday, June 13, Julia Butterfly Hill and Daryl Hannah, both luminaries in the South Central Farm encampment and environmental activists, will join the South Central Farmers and Farm supporters at a reunion and recommitment to the Farm at 41st and Alameda

The women will add their voices to kick off a national "Take Back the Farm" campaign to return the South Central Farm to the residents and Farmers of South Central.

Hill is remembered in Los Angeles for instigating the tree-sit, invigorating the encampment at the South Central Farm, and leading a stream of celebrities to the Farm.  Her seat high above the urban oasis was taken by Hannah, who was arrested with 43 others for their participation.

Hill came to international attention in 1997 for a 738-day, world-record tree sit to save ancient California redwoods.  Recently, she has joined with green economist Van Jones and celebrated yoga teacher Seane Corn to form the Engage Network, committed to environmental renewal and social change by building an international network of civically engaged community groups.

Hannah is probably most widely known for her work in Splash, Kill Bill, and nearly 60 other films, but she's as well known in environmental circles for her activism, off-grid home, organic garden, and her website, dhlovelife.com, a weekly vlog on sustainable solutions.  Hannah noted that, "Everyone seems to be starting to recognize the crucial role urban gardens play in the future of our species and the South Central Farm embodied that ideal model."

The South Central Farm was among the world's largest urban farms until the Los Angeles City government colluded with a local developer to hand the land over to clothing manufacturer and retailer Forever 21 for a megalithic trucking center, and destroyed more than a decade's worth of family labor.  Three years ago, Farm supporters from around the world rallied to the Farmers' aid, camping on the land and sitting in a famous Black Walnut tree, until Los Angeles sheriffs and bulldozers arrived to forcibly evict and arrest the Farmers and their supporters.

The evening's activities will include assessing and planning future actions and activities for the Farm.  Music, teatro, and films will be interspersed with discussions with the Farmers about the future of the Farmers' Collective, currently bringing tons of fresh, organically grown food to Los Angeles annually, and plans for restoring the original site.  Since learning of the proposed distribution center, the South Central Farmers have been organizing a boycott of Forever 21 with community and national groups, which has elicited a counter-campaign from the industrial giant extolling warehouse labor over local food production.  The Academy Award® nominated documentary The Garden, about the demolition of the Farm, has told the Farm story to hundreds of thousands of people across the United States. 

One day before the reunion, on Friday, June 12, the South Central Farmers will return to City Hall to demand the Los Angeles City Council restore the famous South Central Farm in order to provide healthy food to South Central residents, using $137M collected by the City from development for open spaces and parks, and set aside in the City's Quimby account.  South Central Los Angeles is an infamous "food desert," redlined by major grocery chains for poor quality food or no food distribution at all.

The City Planning Department notified the Farmers that developer Ralph Horowitz has been granted an unlimited period to file an Environmental Impact Report for constructing the distribution center on the Farm, after first requiring the EIR no later than June 1, 2009.  In June of 2008, the South Central Farmers demanded and won the EIR before Horowitz could begin construction for Forever 21 on the land that is the South Central Farm.  Mr. Horowitz has not met that deadline and the land remains vacant, but the City is determined to impose the Forever 21 warehouse on the land and the people, a megalith to the City's conquest of the people and the destruction of the planet.  The proposed shipping center would bring 2500 truck trips daily through the neighborhood.

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