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Food/diet The Corporation Uncategorized
November 25, 2008

Indian Farmers Committing Suicide en masse … because of GM seeds?

This story is sad.  It tells about the dismal treatment of a working class in India that has been manipulated into believing it can dig itself out of povery, all for the benefit of a single corporation known as Monsanto. By Andrew Malone When Prince Charles claimed thousands of Indian farmers were killing themselves after using GM crops, he was branded a scaremonger. In fact, […]

Food/diet The Corporation
November 22, 2008

Using Melamine to Boost Protein

This site offers some background information concerning the use of melamine in foods made and delivered from China. The ‘bottom line’ provided sums everything up nicely: Know where your food comes from and how it’s produced. This may sound like an impossible task, and in many cases it will be. Particularly if you depend on processed and commercially farmed foods. However, if you purchase your […]

disaster capitalism financial crisis Politics The Corporation
November 20, 2008

GM: The Ultimate Robin Hood? Or Scammer?

Some people are questioning the decisions of GM executives to fly in their Jetstreams to Washington to whine about how broke the North American company is, but are few people even aware that GM is planning on spending more than $1 billion in Brazil on a manufacturing plant? They just earned a resounding NO from me.  Let’s try to aggregate that though and send a […]

Canada economics The Corporation
November 19, 2008

Auto Bailout: Whither the ZENN Car?

Everyone is talking about doling out more cash to a bunch of lame-duck capitalists, and yet we’ve got a perfect Made-In-Canada solution. The ZENN car , or Zero Emission No Noise car, is an electric vehicle that is being manufactured in Quebec for Quebecers.  The sticker price starts around $15,000 and the extras (AC/radio/etc) would put you at about $20,000. But we’re not supporting it.  […]