MIT Researcher: Glyphosate Herbicide will Cause Half of All Children to Have Autism by 2025

Evidence points to glyphosate toxicity from the overuse of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide on our food. 

By Alliance For Natural Health
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“For over three decades, Stephanie Seneff, PhD, has researched biology and technology, over the years publishing over 170 scholarly peer-reviewed articles. In recent years she has concentrated on the relationship between nutrition and health, tackling such topics as Alzheimer’s, autism, and cardiovascular diseases, as well as the impact of nutritional deficiencies and environmental toxins on human health.” 

Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food: Supporting Local Food Programs, Will it Help?

Illustration by Roxanne Palmer published in Modern Farmer, Why Many Farmers Eat like Crap.

“In 2018 $30M in funding is available through the USDA AMS Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) support an array of direct-to-consumer and local food market projects. These competitive grant opportunities are important sources of support for building local and regional food systems.”  – Farm Commons.org 

If you or someone you know working in this field is interested, but doesn’t quite have the know-how for grant writing and acquiring public funds, there is an upcoming webinar, called Crafting Winning LFPP/FMPP Proposals, brought to you by the Wallace Center and others. 

Presenters will be talking about the best practices for planning and writing LFPP/FMPP proposals, emphasizing that “designing an effective and impactful goal-based program is the foundation of successful grant applications.” More information about applying for the LFPP Grant and access the RFA here. To find out more about the FMPP and to download that RFA click here. Also be sure to check out the helpful overview of the FMLFPP funding opportunity provided by the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. 

 The webinar will take place on April 12^th at 2:00pm EST. Click here to register for the webinar.

LFPP and FMPP Applications Due: 11:59pm EST on May 7, 2018 on www.grants.gov 

Non-native Fish Farms Banned in Washington State

For decades, Washington has had eight Atlantic salmon farms. After one was destroyed in an accident last summer, the state has decided to kick the rest of them out. Robert F. Bukaty/AP

Last week, State Governor, Jay Inslee, signed a bill which bans Altantic Salmon farming off the shores of Washington. Not only does the new law shut down (or phase out) non-native marine pens, but also any possibility to further research or revisit the issue as new science becomes available. 

This story comes after the most recent accident, where a floating farm tore apart and released more than 250,000 Atlantic Salmon into the Pacific ocean.  

Though fish farms have been around for three-plus generations, environmentalists and local tribes are increasingly outspoken, expressing plenty of concern for non-native species which could escape and their potential impact on native wildlife. Yet there has been some support from experts suggesting that floating fish farms are less impactful to our ecosystem than cow farms for meat production. 

Maine’s Food Bank Recent Launch of Program to Build Community Resilience

Good Shepherd Food Bank launched Mainers Feeding Mainers by “forming partnerships with the people who work the land and the sea, to provide food for Mainers facing hunger.”

Their goal is to get “fresh and nutritionally balanced Maine-harvested food to Maine families in need.” According to a recent report, since launching the program in 2010, they have worked with more than 50 farm partners to acquire and distribute over 5 million pounds of fresh, Maine-grown food to families in need.” 

LI Food Coalition Hosts Food Policy Expert and Advocate, Mark Winne, to Long Island Food Conference this Spring

“Mark Winne’s latest book, Stand Together or Starve Alone, questions why the people and organizations in the food movement don’t always play well together. And it raises a lot of questions: When do egos get in the way? Do funders incentivize collaboration? Is it even part of human nature to work together with people outside our groups, however we define them? And what lessons should be learned from the work (and 2012 demise) of the Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC), an alliance of more than 300 organizations focused on building strong, sustainable local and regional food systems?”

Read more from Andy Fisher and Mark Winne in their interview published on Civil Eats here.