Thursday, September 22, 2011

Keep Pesticide-Ridden Corn Off Your Dinner Plate


Surveys over the past decade have consistently shown that Americans don’t want to eat genetically engineered (GE or GMO) food. Despite the overwhelming opposition to this risky new food technology, the biotech giant Monsanto continues to impose its unlabeled GMO’s onto our dinner plates.
The latest: Monsanto’s new GMO corn, intended for the frozen and/or canned corn market. This experimental corn will not be labeled, so consumers cannot know when they may be eating a GMO food that contains a toxic pesticide in every bite. Monsanto’s corn is a new GMO variety that has been genetically modified for three different traits, to resist two different insects and to withstand heavy spraying with Monsanto's toxic Roundup herbicide. Because there are already untested varieties of other insect-resistant and Roundup-Ready varieties on the market, federal regulators are not requiring ANY approval process—which means NO public comment on its introduction into our food supply.
CFS has teamed up with the Center for Environmental Health to urge major companies that make frozen and/or canned corn to take action to avoid Monsanto’s new crop. We need tell Del Monte, Bird’s Eye and other major food makers to reject this new GMO corn. General Mills (Green Giant, Cascadian Farms) and Trader Joe’s have already indicated that they will not use Monsanto’s new GMO sweet corn in their products—so can the other top companies!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Juniata's First Potato Harvest















Seeding the Future: Cultivating the College Farm Conference




Join us as we head to Dickonson College for the "Seeding the Future Conference" on beginning, improving, and utilizing farms and gardens on college campus. From creating compost to developing new courses, learn how to cultivate opportunities for local, sustainable food integration across your curriculum, campus and community. Includes skills workshops and tours at the Dickinson College Farm, presentations, discussions and exhibits that feature faculty, students, farmers and staff from many different colleges that are using farms and gardens in their education programs.
The conference goes from October 14-15.  We will have vans leaving juniata on both days; students should feel free to come and go as is confient througout the conference. There is also an option to camp at the Dickonson farm with other students (there is a hoedown involved in this option). Regestration is $65, please contact for possible scholarships.
For more information see link bellow or contact Jarosmk08@juniata.edu
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/seedingthefuture/