The “Food Landscape” of the Social,  Political and Economic World is changing fast. Trying to keep up on all that is happening is a challenge. Introducing my new e-News Paper The Food Watch Daily. It is an automatically generated news paper from selected RSS feeds and Twitter accounts covering food; issues, regulation, legislation and solutions. The paper is released every day at 10 am Eastern Standard time. After it is released I will be hand selecting articles and videos to publish as well as edit the overall content, when my time allows. Check it out and share it with your social networks. STAY INFORMED! Bless the Earth, the hands that sow and the hearts that hunger for a better tomorrow! FOOD SOVEREIGNTY FOR ALL!  

The occupation of Burlington’s city hall park has entered into a common trend that the nation wide movement of occupations share now, becoming a refuge for the homeless. This issue made it to the attention of Vermont’s mainstream media today Nov. 9th on WCAX after a letter was mailed to Burlington’s Mayor Bob Kiss, stating that the city’s at-capacity Homeless Shelters were referring people to the encampment and the occupiers didn’t have the training nor means to correctly provide assistance to the homeless.In the WCAX report (VIDEO), The Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS) is quick to deny the allegations to the mayor after being questioned, but a COTS spokes person goes on to “doubt anyone at COTS would refer someone to the park, but...

On Oct 29th, the 2011 Conference on Environmental Action was held  at the VT Technical College in Randolph. In the following Video a “some-what complicated” question was asked to Gina McCarthy, who is the Assistant Administrator for the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. Here is the question rephrased – It has been 32 years since the EPA did an assessment of the ambient radio frequency radiation, what kind of pressure should we put on the EPA to update their data? Gina McCarthy doesn’t know the answer to the question, but says “If you think its an issue, and we haven’t looked at it, we are more than happy to take a look at it.” She goes on to say that if you ask them to update their RF radiation data you should also thank them for what...

 This past Tuesday, the 13th of September, two migrant farm workers were arrested during a “routine traffic stop”. VT Governor Shumlin has ordered an investigation. Excerpts from The Seven Days Blog article with my responses. According to Hoag (the Driver a US citizen), during the stop State Trooper Jared Hatch radioed back to a supervisor to check whether he could ask the passengers about their immigration status. As Hoag recalls, the trooper then told him that he could, as long as the farm workers were not victims of or witnesses to a crime. When Lopez and Antonio couldn’t produce documentation, police took them into custody and called the Border Patrol. Response – First, this is a breach of the VT State Police’s bias-free policy that...