Organic crops account for less than 1 percent of U.S. farmland, the association said, and federal Agriculture Department data shows there are only about 14,000 organic farms — a fraction of the 2 million total farms in the U.S. But the demand is high for organic products: Sales have increased from $3.6 billion in 1997 to nearly $40 billion in 2014, The Organic Trade Association figures show.

Two Midwestern states in the U.S. are offering farmers three years of support to move to organic crop production. Farmers would ditch GMOs along with their toxic pesticides and herbicides. The aim is to boost acreage of organically-grown crops in the U.S. once the upper Midwest is well on its way to sustainable farming.

North Dakota and Minnesota have both started grant programs. Minnesota led the way in 2013 and North Dakota began its program this year. The grants, ranging from $750 to $1000, help farmers to transition to organic crops. The money can be used for everything from soil testing to education on how to grow food in a sustainable way.

The new programs disallow using chemicals. Farmers who are switching from mainstream to organic farming practices will learn how to grow crops without using chemicals.

Lowell Kaul, an organic farmer near Harvey, North Dakota, who serves on a board that advises the state agriculture commissioner, explains:

“. . . there’s a learning curve there that the farmer needs to go through.”

Kaul also noted that a government-approved agency must certify the crops as organic before the farmers can sell them in the organic market.

The Organic Trade Association (OTA) is lobbying for a government-administered transition program that will give farmers better financial and educational support as well as certifying them. Nathaniel Lewis, the OTA’s senior crops and livestock specialist, says there’s even talk of offering new organic farmers premium prices for their produce.

Hopefully the grant programs will spread to other states. The citizenry of the U.S. could certainly use more organic farms. Almost half of Americans polled have said they want to eat organic food, and sales of organic food are booming. Recent sales have reached $35 billion annually.

There is certainly a healthy market waiting for any farmer who wants to heal his or her soil and start farming sustainably and organically.

Health Ranger to unveil plan for bankrupting Monsanto using free market principles

October 20, 2015 By The Golden Light Channel

Health Ranger to unveil plan for bankrupting Monsanto using free market principles driven by informed consumers… action report broadcasting Thursday on TalkNetwork.com

http://www.naturalnews.com/051624_bankrupt_Monsanto_free_market_principles_supply_and_demand.html

Monday, October 19, 2015
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Tags: bankrupt Monsanto, free market principles, supply and demand

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/051624_bankrupt_Monsanto_free_market_principles_supply_and_demand.html#ixzz3p9a7X5MT

(NaturalNews) I have a plan for winning the GMO wars and bankrupting Monsanto, the world’s most evil and destructive corporation.

The full plan is outlined on the Health Ranger Report being broadcast this Thursday on TalkNetwork.com, our new talk radio network featuring 28 hosts and 24/7 audio streaming. Click here to view the show schedule.

As citizens who support the free market, it is not merely our responsibility but our economic authority to reward companies that operate ethically while economically penalizing corporations that wreak destruction on our world. Monsanto — as the world’s most evil corporation engaged in genetic pollution, seed monopolization and the mass poisoning of humanity with cancer-causing glyphosate — needs to be rendered bankrupt by the fundamental laws of supply and demand.

Monsanto is already plunging in stock price and market share

It’s already beginning to happen, in fact. Monsanto’s share price has already plunged 25% from its high, and the evil corporation is laying off over 1,500 workers.

Food manufacturers, meanwhile, are finding that they sell more food if it’s labeled non-GMO, so demand has skyrocketed for non-GMO wheat, corn and soybeans. Demand is so high, in fact, that there now exists a massive economic opportunity for farmers to earn huge incomes by growing non-GMO crops right here in America.

Beyond the huge demand for non-GMO foods, there’s also increasing demand for non-GMO vitamins and nutritional supplements, too. Who wants to take vitamins made with GM corn-derived maltodextrin or vitamin C? Nobody!

No Big Government required to defeat Monsanto

The good news in all this is that we don’t even need Big Government to take any action to defeat Monsanto. Although we would all love to see the government mandate basic GMO labeling and ingredient transparency (because knowledge is the basis of consumer decisions in a free market), even without mandatory labeling, we can use consumer education and free market principles to hammer Monsanto revenues and make them economically irrelevant.

That’s a good thing, too, because Monsanto has infiltrated and corrupted government at every level, including at the USDA where agency enforcers are nothing more than Monsanto prostitutes pretending to be regulators. We see the same thing in academia where university professors like Kevin Folta are paid to push Monsanto propaganda while lying to the public about their conflicts of interest.

The more we spread the word and educate people to choose ORGANIC and non-GMO foods, the more market share Monsanto loses.

So spread the word and tune in to my Health Ranger Report episode on TalkNetwork.com this Thursday at 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern to hear the real solutions for defeating Monsanto using free market principles.

TalkNetwork.com is broadcasting right now! Click here to listen in.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/051624_bankrupt_Monsanto_free_market_principles_supply_and_demand.html#ixzz3p9aD0BrC

Russia just outlawed all GMO crops nationwide

September 21, 2015 By The Golden Light Channel

source: http://www.naturalnews.com/051242_GM_crops_Russia_non-GMO.html

Sunday, September 20, 2015
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) At the same time that Monsanto’s corruption is infiltrating every corner of U.S. academia, government regulators and corporate-controlled media, Russia has just announced a total ban on the cultivation of GMO crops.

“A senior Russian government member told reporters the cabinet decided that any food production in the country will completely exclude any genetically-modified organisms or parts thereof,” reports RT.com.

RT reports:

According to official statistics the share of GMO in the Russian food industry has declined from 12 percent to just 0.01 percent over the past 10 years, and currently there are just 57 registered food products containing GMO in the country. The law ordering obligatory state registration of GMO products that might contact with the environment will come into force in mid-2017.

This puts Russia in a powerful position of producing nearly 100% non-GMO foods for both domestic consumption and export. Most consumers around the world, when given a choice, prefer to eat non-GMO foods. In the United States, the criminally-run food industry front group — the Grocery Manufacturers of America — is desperately trying to block all GMO food labeling in order to keep consumers in the dark about what they’re eating. Nearly the entire mainstream media, likewise, has also been bought off by the biotech industry and refuses to cover the truth about GMOs. (Which is why sites like GMO.news are becoming so popular among independent thinkers.

Hungary also rejecting America’s Monsanto imperialism to produce GMO-free food for Europe

Hungary is also working hard to produce GMO-free food products for its own people. As reported on GMO.news:

<>Hungary’s Ministry of Agriculture believes that keeping Hungarian agriculture GMO-free is a matter of “extremely high strategic importance.” In fact, Hungary’s Constitution states that:

Hungary shall promote the effective application of the right referred to in Paragraph (1) by an agriculture free of genetically modified organisms, by ensuring access to healthy food and drinking water, by organising safety at work and healthcare provision, by supporting sports and regular physical exercise, as well as by ensuring the protection of the environment.

Read full story: http://www.naturalnews.com/051242_GM_crops_Russia_non-GMO.html

INTERNATIONAL News – Millions to March Against Monsanto and GMO – Saturday, May 24, 2014

May 19, 2014 By The Golden Light Channel

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Many countries have banned GMOs and most recently the State of Vermont passed a GMO Labeling Law. The shocking chart above shows how deeply embedded GMOs are with our elected officials. For more info on the DANGERS OF GMOS click here. -GL

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By Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – May 12, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/lsfepsv

Regardless where you live, May 24 marks the annual opportunity to March Against Monsanto.

The event protesting the GMO (genetically modified organisms) giant will simultaneously take place in more than 400 cities in 52 countries that span six continents. That’s up from 286 cities in 36 countries last year. Among the marches is one in St. Louis, MO, which is home to Monsanto’s headquarters.

“Historically, Monsanto has brought us DDT [(dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane], PCBs [polychlorinated biphenyl], Agent Orange and dioxin,” reads a Facebook invitation to the St. Louis march. “Monsanto’s reckless use of chemicals calls into question their testing standards, lack of scientific rigor, disregard for the precautionary principle and disregard for human life and the ecosystem.

“Currently, we’re faced with Monsanto’s seed patenting and subsequent extortion in demanding pay for seeds from future crops, the proliferation of genetically modified foods (GMOs), use of dangerous pesticides, and their efforts to control the food supply. Monsanto leaves damaged farms, people, animals and entire ecosystems in their wake.”

The event aims to highlight the various modes of distress Monsanto has created for people around the planet. For example, more than 250,000 impoverished farmers in India have committed suicide as a result of Monsanto’s Bt cotton seeds not performing as anticipated. Sterility, infant mortality, birth defects and increased cancer risks are among the health risks associated with Monsanto chemicals and seeds.

“We will not allow this ‘Garden of Eden’ to be compromised by the destructive practices of multinational corporations like Monsanto,” Josh Castro, organizer for Quito, Ecuador’s march, said in a statement for the global march. “Biotechnology is not the solution to world hunger. Agroecology is. Monsanto’s harmful practices are causing soil infertility, mono-cropping, loss of biodiversity, habitat destruction and contributing to beehive collapse. GMO crops cross pollenate with traditional crops, risking peasant farmers’ livelihood.”

Local March Against Monsanto events will take place in 47 of 50 states in the U.S.

“Monsanto’s predatory business and corporate agricultural practices threatens their generation’s health, fertility and longevity,” said Tami Monroe Canal, the founder of March Against Monsanto who began the event to protect her children from GMOs. “MAM supports a sustainable food production system.

“We must act now to stop GMOs and harmful pesticides.”

Click here for a full list of INTERNATIONAL March Against Monsanto events.

Good things happening in Los Angeles (City of the Angels): Marianne Williamson announces run for Congress and LA set to be largest GMO-Free Zone in USA

October 25, 2013 By The Golden Light Channel

A Course in Politics: Marianne Williamson Announces Run for Congress

thanks to http://awakeningtothedivine.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/a-course-in-politics-marianne-williamson-announces-run-for-congress/

October 25, 2013

Thanks to Golden Age of Gaia.

Stephen Cook: My guess is we’ll be seeing many more spiritual people taking on prominent roles in the new governments ahead. Thanks to Amy.

By Tammy Biddle, The Huffington Post – October 24, 2013

http://tinyurl.com/mf9gs46

Marianne Williamson, beloved spiritual teacher and author of the bestselling “A Return to Love” and “Healing the Soul of America,” announced on Sunday in Los Angeles her run for the United States Congress. She’ll be running for the U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 33rd District, a seat currently held by 74-year old Democrat Henry Waxman, one of the most longstanding members of Congress. (He has held the seat for 38 years.)

While Marianne has been a lifelong Democrat, she is running this race as an Independent. “I believe that a wave of independent candidates, all committed to a huge course-correction, is necessary to turn our ship around. I feel my campaign, and most importantly my win, can help inspire such a movement,” says Marianne.

Marianne is no stranger to the needs of Americans and to the needs of our political system. For 30 years, she has worked intimately with people in crisis. From her work as a spiritual advisor and meal provider to those living with HIV/AIDS, to providing non-medical support to those living with life-challenging illnesses, to being a teacher of A Course in Miracles for those suffering from addictions, Marianne has demonstrated a long history of willingness to go into the trenches and be of service to those in greatest need.

On the political front, Marianne co-founded The Peace Alliance, promoting legislation to establish a United States Department of Peace, and she is on the Board of Directors of RESULTS, a citizens lobbying group working to create the political will to end hunger and poverty.

The problems of American politics are big. Our government has lost its ethical center; it has become commandeered by moneyed interests; and gender inequality remains huge. Rather than lead with a single legislative initiative, Marianne’s solution is big. It’s about leading with a heart consciousness and nurturing, what Martin Luther King, Jr. called, the beloved community. “Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do,” said Marianne when she announced her candidacy to an excited full house at the Saban Theatre in Los Angeles.

Marianne’s major concern is that our American democracy is at risk. She worries that our government that is supposed to be of the people, by the people, and for the people is being replaced by government of a few of the people, by a few of the people, for a few of the people. “It’s being dismantled in front of our eyes,” she says.

As a daughter of an immigration lawyer, Marianne saw firsthand what it meant to people who had made it out of countries of terrible tyranny and suppression to make a new life in the United States. It meant everything to them. Seeing this gave Marianne a deep appreciation for the value of our democracy, in human terms. “As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy,” said Marianne to an inspired crowd of over 2,000 people at the Saban Theatre. She added later: “When America does what’s right, it’s such a light on this planet.”

As Marianne shared her story on Sunday, she recalled when she began work in the AIDS community. She said that at that time, close to 30 years ago, allopathic doctors would look at her and those who were talking about holistic medicine, and the psychological, emotional and spiritual elements for healing, and just kind of pat them on the head. In other words, they weren’t taken very seriously. Today you have Harvard University with symposiums on Integrative Medicine, and oncologists who are the first ones to tell you to go to a spiritual support group. “We need that same type of holistic paradigm to occur now in the United States Congress,” said Marianne.

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author, lecturer and thought leader. Six of her 10 published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1 New York Times Best Sellers. “We don’t just need new policies, we need a new world view,” says Marianne.

Marianne acknowledges that what she has to say will upset the current mode of operation, and that early on in the campaign, she may be mocked and minimized. But she insists that despite this, she will continue to speak the truth of her heart. America needs a huge course correction, says Marianne. “There is something that is going on that is not okay.”

My experience of Marianne is that she will bring a healing energy in through the doors of Congress that will permeate the halls, offices and meeting spaces of Capitol Hill. By nature of who she is and what she stands for, Marianne will not only be serving her constituents in Southern California, she will be serving the greater good of American democracy.

Marianne has been considering this deepening of her mission over the last year. I first heard a hint of it last October at Sister Giant, an event Marianne founded to change the conversation in American politics and to encourage women to re-envision their political possibilities. “At a certain point, it’s not enough for us to be activists from the periphery,” said Marianne.

Looks like she took her own words to heart.

Marianne hopes that her campaign will give people who haven’t participated in a congressional campaign before – particularly those who have felt sidelined or cynical about the political process – the inspiration to renew their commitment to exercise their own citizenship.

“What needs to be done now can’t be done only from the sidelines; those of us who share the values of this campaign need to stand on them, run on them and win on them. This way we’ll reclaim our democracy and help save the world,” says Marianne.

That’s why Marianne Williamson, beloved spiritual teacher and activist, is running for the United States Congress.

Waking Times: Los Angeles Set to Be Largest GMO-Free Zone in USA

thanks to http://awakeningtothedivine.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/waking-times-los-angeles-set-to-be-largest-gmo-free-zone-in-usa/

October 25, 2013

Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society Waking Times,http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/10/25/los-angeles-set-largest-gmo-free-zone-usa/

International outrage against Monsanto and GMOs by activists and concerned citizens at large is paying off once again. Just days after Mexico announced a complete ban on the growth of GMO corn, Los Angeles lawmakers have now gone on record in setting up Los Angeles to be the largest GMO-free region in the United States.

Specifically, L.A. politicians are responding to the call for a ban on the cultivation, sale, and even distribution of GMOs at large. In other words, an entirely ‘GMO-free’ zone. This would be one of the most powerful pieces of legislation to pass in the fight against Monsanto that has ever been seen — especially in the Monsanto-owned United States, where even the USDA has given Monsanto’s genetically modified creations special ‘speedy approval’ access to their regulation techniques.

Politicians Forced to Act

But even despite Monsanto’s tentacles being locked deep inside the political system, we are now seeing politicians who are forced into taking action by their supporters. This appears to be the case with Los Angeles City Councilmen Paul Koretz and Mitch O’Farrell, who are responsible for introducing the motion and subsequently addressing the demands of the population. And thanks to activism and the high-powered spread of information on the subject of Monsanto and GMOs, we are seeing this kind of action on a much more frequent basis.

In fact, the number of politicians now driven to fight against Monsanto in order to retain support is climbing to the point where my prediction of Monsanto’s economic downfall within the next few years may indeed become a reality thanks to enraged voters. Just look at how much information is being launched into the mainstream even in major media reports on the Los Angeles initiative, with City Councilman Kortez stating:

“A growing number of problems are being traced to GMOs,.. the evolution of ‘superbug’ insects which are growing immune to the pesticides engineered within GMO crops” and ”‘seed drift’ (for example the recent finding of GMO-pollinated wheat growing in an Oregon farmer’s field).”

These are the facts we have been telling you for years, and it is a major victory to see them now reaching millions more around the globe. If Los Angeles is able to push through the GMO ban into city wide regulation, it would be a direct blow to the beast that is Monsanto and the biotech industry at large.

About the Author

Anthony is the Editor of NaturalSociety, producer, consultant, and seeker of truth. Anthony’s work has been read by millions worldwide and is routinely featured on major alternative and mainstream news website alike, like the powerful Drudge Report, NaturalNews, Infowars, and many others. Anthony has appeared, oftentimes routinely, on programs like Russia Today (RT), The Alex Jones Show, Coast to Coast AM, and others. Anthony is also a founding member of Natural Attitude and the creator of the independent political website Storyleak