This article in Vanity Fair is quite long, but it is a good read on the tactics that a certain corporate giant is taking to ensure they control the world’s food supply. This company and it’s tactics make cinema’s most cold-blooded bad guys seem like common street hustlers.

Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.

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I’m always torn about posting articles like that. On the one hand, I think it’s really important to get the word out about what is happenning in our world (and that idea often wins, but not always), but on the other hand, those articles are scary and sad and often leave me feeling like I can’t ever do enough.

Then I read something like this:
about a woman who turned a barren patch of NYC land into a lush paradise

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and it renews my faith that one person really CAN make a difference. And that makes me want to try even harder.