Fact Sheets

Identifying Our Climate Foodprint

A look at the entire food system and opportunities to shift to a climate-friendly system. The industrial model of farming with massive resource intensive inputs for crops and livestock is the largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions throughout the food system.

MRSA (ST 398): A New Resistant Disease From Animals

KAW has published a new factsheet explaining MRSA ST 398.

Integrated Solutions to the Water, Agriculture and Climate Crises

This report outlines the connections between the water, agriculture and climate crises and the role industrial agriculture has played in contributing to the problem. Because these three areas are so inter-connected they can no longer be handled in isolation from each other and a comprehensive approach is now needed.

The Canadian and Mexican WTO Challenges to U.S. Country of Origin Labeling

A short backgrounder on U.S. Country of Origin labeling and potential challenges by Canada and Mexico at the WTO.

Smart Guide to Food Dyes: Buying Foods That Can Help Learning

Consumers are surrounded with candies and processed foods containing synthetic food dyes. Increasingly, these dyes have been found to increase hyperactivity and other disturbed behavior in children. These synthetic dyes, mostly petroleum-derived, are unnecessary.

Smart Guide to Minnesota Dairy Without rBGH

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) was one of the first genetically engineered agriculture products and is a synthetic hormone given to dairy cows to force increased milk production. It can also cause udder infections leading to increased antibiotic use. rBGH also raises the levels of Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) in cows and cow's milk.

Betting Against Food Security: Futures Market Speculation

A fact sheet on the role of speculation in threatening global food security.

Not So Sweet: Missing Mercury and High Fructose Corn Syrup

Mercury is a potent brain toxin and for decades high fructose corn syrup, an increasingly common ingredient in processed foods, has been made using mercury caustic soda. This study looks at the mercury content in foods that list high fructose corn syrup as a main ingredient.

Especulaci�n en las bolsas de materias primas: riesgos a la seguridad alimentaria y la agricultura

Resumen del estudio, �Especulaci�n en las bolsas de materias primas: riesgos a la seguridad alimentaria y agricultura.�2 Conjuntamente con algunas reflexiones sobre medidas propuestas para reglamentar el mercado oculto (shadow market) de especulaci�n.

Dec. 2008 draft NAMA modalities

New version of draft NAMA modalities