OCA, RI, and our Mexico sister group, By way of Organica have been energetic South of the Border for 20 years, campaigning towards GMOs, glyphosate, anti-small farmer “Free Commerce” agreements, compelled migration, and different points. Now we have additionally supported the decision for an finish to The Drug Warfare and the legalization of medicine (each in US and Mexico, following the instance of Portugal and the Scandinavian international locations).

On the similar time, we now have been selling, together with our Mexican allies, the transition to natural and agroecological meals and farming, which the ruling MORENA (Motion for Nationwide Regeneration) Social gathering of President Lopez Obrador has now endorsed as a part of its official coverage.

Just lately the Biden administration has threatened litigation, commerce sanctions, and financial reprisals towards Mexico except the nation abandons insurance policies proscribing and finally banning the large imports of GMO yellow corn (17 million tons per 12 months) and glyphosate (the poisonous herbicide produced by Monsanto/Bayer that’s used on GMO corn.)

In the meantime Drug Warfare Hawks within the U.S. Congress are calling, for “a boots on the bottom” invasion (with US troops crossing the border) as a way to defeat the violent Mexican drug cartels that offer the US marketplace for cocaine and heroin. China provides the precursor chemical compounds for the lethal drug fentanyl, bought by the Mexican cartels.

On the similar time the fossil gas and mining multinationals have criticized Mexican authorities nationalization and management over oil and lithium. Lopez Obrador (generally generally known as AMLO) has challenged the Biden Administration, stating “Mexico is just not a U.S. Colony,” and that Mexico’s coverage of nationalized oil and lithium, is non-negotiable. Equally, AMLO has rejected threats from Monsanto, GMO, and chemical cartels, repeatedly emphasizing that the coverage banning the imports of GMO corn and glyphosate will proceed.

Study extra: US Pushes Again on Mexico Ban on GMO Corn and Glyphosate

Also: ‘Mexico Is Not a US Colony!’: AMLO Condemns Invasion Threats, Celebrates Nationalization of Oil and Lithium

Mercola Reviews:

“The rising weight problems epidemic exhibits no signal of stopping and is predicted to price over $4.3 trillion by 2035, when consultants estimate greater than half of the worldwide inhabitants can be chubby or overweight, and practically 2 million can be overweight.The rising variety of kids with weight problems not solely will increase a toddler’s danger of well being challenges throughout childhood, but additionally raises their danger for well being issues in maturity together with blood clots, chubby and weight problems, heart problems and untimely demise.

In accordance with the Pentagon, 77% of individuals aged 17 to 24 don’t qualify for army service for 3 essential causes, one in every of which is being chubby or overweight.

Weight problems is the main reason behind knee replacements, infertility, liver failure and extreme COVID-19. Conflicts of curiosity impede truthful dietary steering, akin to Coca-Cola’s marketing campaign to advertise train and drink Coke and pushing seed oils excessive in linoleic acid, which will increase irritation and will increase snacking.

In 1954, obesity was known as a typical bodily abnormality. At present it’s known as an epidemic. Lots of the complications related to obesity are well being circumstances that negatively influence high quality of life and enhance well being prices. These embrace lung, liver and coronary heart ailments, arthritis and gout.

The 2023 report from the World Weight problems Federation estimates that the financial influence of chubby and weight problems will surpass $4.3 trillion yearly by 2035.

Within the U.S., the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) experiences the prevalence of obesity in adults was 41.9% measured from 2017 to March 2020.

This represented a rise from 30.5% from 1999 to 2000. The estimated annual medical prices had been roughly $173 billion in 2019 {dollars}.

Learn more: The Obesity Epidemic: How Did We Get Here?

Suzanne Burdick writes for the Defender:

“Beginning this fall, extra extremely processed meals can be on the menu for kids in public colleges due to a ‘major new initiative’ to get Kraft Heinz’s ’Lunchables’ merchandise into U.S. public college cafeterias.

The corporate mentioned two variations of the Lunchables product can be served in K-12 public schools, both for college kids to purchase or free, below the Nationwide College Lunch Program.

The corporate mentioned it developed two styles of Lunchables — turkey and cheddar or additional tacky pizza— that meet the federal dietary tips set for the U.S. Division of Agriculture’s (USDA) National School Lunch Program, which offers meals to nearly 30 million kids throughout the nation.

Each choices had been made utilizing ’a specialised recipe that includes extra protein and entire grains to maintain youngsters powered all through the day, diminished saturated fats and sodium, and an elevated serving dimension,’ Kraft Heinz informed CNN Business.

However critics — together with John Fagan, Ph.D., a number one authority on biosafety, meals authenticity and sustainability within the meals and agricultural system — mentioned he doubted the dietary worth of the merchandise.

The USDA enterprise cope with Kraft Heinz is ‘disappointing,’ Fagan informed The Defender.

‘Our authorities is just not recognizing … the college lunch alternative to strengthen our meals system, however as an alternative offering a sweetheart deal to one of many massive gamers in Big Food,’ Fagan mentioned.

The Kraft Heinz Company is the fifth-largest meals and beverage firm on this planet. Its product line consists of Velveeta cheese, Kool-Help and Jell-O.

Fagan is CEO and chief scientific officer of Health Research Institute, which conducts testing on the nutrient and pesticide ranges in meals and not too long ago revealed a report on school lunches.

He mentioned it’s properly established that highly processed foods like Kraft Heinz’s merchandise increase inflammation and free radicals.

‘With such extremely processed supplies, you are also lacking numerous the actually essential vitamins which can be simply naturally current in actual meals,’ Fagan mentioned, including:

‘We’re placing our youngsters at an enormous drawback to reveal them to those meals and put them actually in a state of affairs the place they’ve little alternative about what they will eat.”

Learn more: Public Schools to Start Serving Kraft Lunchables, Thanks to ‘Sweetheart Deal’ With USDA

Simply if you thought Invoice Gates’ plans for world domination couldn’t get any crazier. Suzanne Burdick writes: “The Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis this month awarded a $4.8 million grant to an organization that sells “good” face masks for cows.

ZELP, which stands for Zero Emissions Livestock Mission, claims its synthetic intelligence (AI) masks expertise for livestock will scale back methane emissions — thought-about to be a main greenhouse gas — and curb local weather change.

Cows and different ruminant animals emit methane within the strategy of digesting their meals.

The masks goes across the cow’s head and captures the methane fuel exhaled by the animal, oxidizing it after which releasing it into the air as carbon dioxide and water vapor, in line with ZELP.

It additionally has sensors that repeatedly acquire tens of millions of information factors on the animals which can be processed by machine studying algorithms.

‘Our AI is educated to detect warmth, flag welfare circumstances, and establish probably the most environment friendly animals with a high-level of accuracy,’ ZELP said.

However critics, together with third-generation farmer Howard Vlieger, mentioned the Gates-funded enterprise is illogical and pushed by greed.

Vlieger, who advises crop and livestock farmers throughout the U.S., mentioned, “That is what you’ll get if you mix greed and stupidity.”

Commenting on the information, Will Harris — a fourth-generation regenerative farmer who runs his household’s farm White Oak Pastures, informed The Defender all he might say was, “Certainly this can be a hoax.”

Critical Sway, a researcher and investigator, tweeted, “You couldn’t make these things up. … We’re dwelling in ridiculous instances my mates.”

Learn more: ‘Smart’ Masks for Cows? Gates Invests $4.7 Million in Data-Collecting Faceware for Livestock

Brenda Balleti writes:

“Every week-and-a-half after the second-largest financial institution failure in American historical past ignited uncertainty all through the worldwide economic system, consultants warn financial institution failures and the stabilization measures taken by the Federal Reserve and Wall Avenue are creating even better financial institution consolidation — and may additional pave the best way for a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Silicon Valley Financial institution’s (SVB) collapse earlier this month led to the collapse of Signature Financial institution, the voluntary closing of Silvergate Financial institution and the takeover of all three banks by the FDIC.

In response, prime credit standing company Moody’s lowered the outlook for your complete U.S. banking system to ‘unfavourable.’

Now the banking disaster is spreading to Europe. Swiss regulators engineered a ‘forced marriage’ between UBS and the troubled Credit Suisse this previous weekend as a part of an effort to stabilize the financial institution within the face of accelerating issues {that a} main monetary disaster is imminent.

The collapse and downgrading of those banks have bolstered the place of what has come to be known as the systemically essential banks (SIBs) — monetary establishments whose failure might set off a monetary disaster.

These ‘too big to fail’ monetary establishments — which embrace JPMorgan Chase, Financial institution of America, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, amongst others — have been inundated with billions of dollars of recent deposits ‘as smaller lenders face turmoil’ the Financial Times reported.”

Learn more: Feds Using Banking Crisis to Usher in Central Bank Digital Currency, Experts Warn

Max Goldberg writes for Natural Insider:

“Pure Merchandise Expo West returned to Anaheim final week, attracting 65,000 folks with greater than 3,000 manufacturers exhibiting, and the present may very well be characterised as just like the climate we skilled — a mix of sunshine and rain.

On the one hand, Expo West was full of super pleasure and vitality, and plenty of natural corporations I spoke with had an extremely productive few days. Moreover, some very constructive trade tendencies started to take maintain.

Then again, the continued allowance of GMO 2.0 corporations at Pure Merchandise Expo West resulted in a palpable sense of anger amongst a rising variety of attendees, and it solid an inescapable shadow over your complete present, notably for individuals who attended the very contentious GMO 2.0 panel dialogue.”

Listed here are my key tendencies, ideas and takeaways:

Learn more: Alongside Encouraging Trends that Emerged at Expo West 2023, Tension is Growing Over GMO 2.0

Brenda Balleti writes:

“Counties with greater weight problems charges throughout the U.S. are inclined to have extra meals shops promoting extra unhealthy meals choices relative to counties with decrease weight problems charges, in line with a report from The Urban Institute revealed this month.

“We discover that areas of upper weight problems prevalence usually tend to have better publicity to the varieties of meals shops prone to supply much less wholesome choices, even when controlling for variations throughout counties,” the authors wrote.

In high-obesity counties, the examine reported that 65.5% of meals institutions are prone to be “unhealthy,” versus low-obesity counties the place simply 51.5% of meals institutions are “unhealthy.”

This was true throughout rural and non-rural areas.

The researchers studied the distribution of locations promoting groceries — issues that individuals would eat or put together at dwelling — versus eating places. That was partly as a result of analysis already linked excessive concentrations of quick meals eating places to weight problems, however the position of various kinds of meals shops is much less properly understood.

Notably, the examine discovered that ‘Greenback’ shops — as in Greenback Tree, Greenback Basic and Household Greenback — represented a considerably bigger share of unhealthy meals institutions in high-obesity areas than in low-obesity areas…”

Read more: Obesity Tied to ‘Food Swamps’ — Counties That Have More Stores Selling Unhealthy Foods — Study Finds

Civil Eats experiences:

“In Wichita, Kansas, Donna Pearson McClish, founding father of Frequent Floor Producers and Growers, makes use of a ‘cell meals hub’ mannequin to maneuver recent meals from native farms—each city and rural—to low-income residents. Many use Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP) advantages and market vouchers to stretch their {dollars}, she defined at the ‘Food Not Feed Summit’ in early February.

In 2020, Frequent Floor received just under $300,000 from the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) to coach entrepreneurs to develop and distribute meals in low-income areas. In 2022, the group partnered with the Kansas Rural Middle to create an even bigger meals hub that can distribute native meals in 12 counties alongside the interstate that runs from Wichita to Salina. That mission can be funded by a bigger $500,000 USDA grant.

These efforts to feed folks and distribute extra native meals in small however impactful methods are essential to the state’s meals system, but they’re dwarfed by the size of commodity farming in Kansas. In actual fact, between 1995 and 2021, the USDA additionally despatched greater than $15 billion to wheat, sorghum, and corn farmers to proceed producing commodities and $3 billion in funds to encourage conservation practices on those self same farms…”

Learn More: This Farm Bill Really Matters. We Explain Why.

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