Mike Gravel 08 - Great, or the Greatest

Problem: Help bring about federal standards for safety assessments of genetically engineered foods. Background: The haphazard and negligent agency regulation of biotechnology has been a disaster for consumers and the environment. Unsuspecting consumers are being allowed to purchase and consume unlabeled genetically engineered foods, despite a finding by FDA scientists that these foods could pose serious risks. A number of studies over the past decade have revealed that genetically engineered foods ca...

Action: Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has repeatedly introduced two bills related to GE crops and foods in the House of Representatives. The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act would require mandatory labeling of all GE foods; the other, The Genetically Engineered Food Safety Act, would require mandatory, pre-market safety testing of GE foods.

Problem: Factory farming creates a loss in quality for all of: the environment, animal well-being, human food quality, and long term economics.

Action: To educate the public, as well as participants, in the real nature of factory farming, including  its many negative impacts.

Problem: humanity needs to revitalize its agriculture, while preserving the environment and enhancing human and ecological health.

Action: presents an introduction to biodynamic gardening/farming.

Problem: Due to excessive manipulation of the honeybees, humanity has decimated their populations.  The disappearance of the bees has far-reaching effects, for both the natural world and humanity.

Action: To return the bee populations, humanity must begin by studying overviews of the problem, versus narrow, reductionist solutions that are incapable of even perceiving the problem.  The Earth Vision project presents one such overview in its article  - Why the Bees are Dying - at http://www.evbooks.net/earth_vision_021.htm Visit the article and explore the many ways we have been interfering with the honeybee hiving process, and exprapolta...