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With food prices increasing at a breakneck rate, many experts on energy and the environment are turning away from what was once considered to be a green alternative to fossil fuels.
Ben Wikler of Avaaz.org tells The Real News Network that rainforests, the "lungs of the planet," are being cut down to grow crops for biofuels. The result, he says, is that biofuels are having a net negative impact on global warming. On top of that, the transfer of land from food production to energy production is causing food prices to skyrocket.

Katarina Wahlberg of the Global Policy Forum tells The Real News Network that biofuels are a "very dangerous trend," and calls for an outright moratorium on their production.

John Dugard speaks slowly and carefully. He rarely hesitates. But from his measured voice comes a reputation for being outspoken.

Earlier this year, in his role as special rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council for the Palestinian Territories, the South African law professor wrote a report for the UN General Assembly in which he compared Israel's actions to those of apartheid South Africa.

Indeed, the word "apartheid" appears 24 times in the 24-page report.

But in his interview with the BBC, Mr Dugard goes further than before.

He has been trenchant in his belief in the past seven years that he has held the UN post that Israel is collectively punishing the Palestinians.

Now, though, he has the international community, and the UN itself, in his sights for complicity.

"Ally or not, friend or not, I don't want the United States aligned with, arming, shoveling money, or giving unblinking political cover no matter what, to an Apartheid regime."

• "KING CORN is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In the film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm."
  
  EVERYTHING on your plate is corn.
  
  
  
  
• "THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN is directed by Taggart Siegel, who made the film in a most unusual way – shooting farmer John Peterson over 25-years of their evolving friendship, and using multiple media, from Super8 home movies to modern video -- allowing him to capture his alternately humorous, heartbreaking and spirited life with raw drama and intimacy. Along the way, Siegel charts Farmer John’s astonishing journey from farm boy to counter-culture rebel to the son who almost lost the family farm to a beacon of today’s booming organic farming movement. The result is a tale that ebbs and flows with the fortunes of the soil and revealingly mirrors the changing American times."
  
  
  
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• Leo is a happy little pig on a happy, sunny farm with a red barn and lots of room. until Moopheus offers him the red pill, at which point Leo wakes up and sees what kind of industrial-scale, massively polluting, factory conditions he's been living under the illusion that is...
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  -THE MEATRIX 2: REVOLTING. Moopheus, Chickitty, and Leo go inside the dairy industry.
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• Okay, that was the cartoon. Here's the real thing. Slaughterhouse: The Task of Blood. A British documentary about the men who work in a small, family-owned abattoir in Oldham. From herds of cute sheep, mooing cattle, and oinking pigs, to bloody corpse hanging from a chain being disassembled with knives, chainsaws, and hydraulic pincers, to meat, ready for packaging and purchase by you at your local butcher shop. This is where is comes from, this is who does it.
  
  
  
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  Very interesting to view the kosher and halal slaughtermen in comparison to their secular counterparts. And personally, if you eat meat regularly I think you have a borderline moral responsibility to take an hour and watch all four parts. Because a country that wants meat but doesn't want to know where it comes from ends up with THE MEATRIX.
  
  Because eating meat and not looking where it comes from squarely in the eye sweats hypocrisy.
  
  And because if abattoirs had glass walls, more people would be vegetarians*

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  * Altough if KING CORN is right, most of that meat is corn-fed anyway. But that doesn't count. Watch the slaughtermen do their job, or go buy yourself some fucking soyrizo.

COLLAPSING COLONIES: Are GM Crops Killing Bees?

A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions. The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous...

The problem, says Haefeker, has a number of causes, one being the varroa mite, introduced from Asia, and another is the widespread practice in agriculture of spraying wildflowers with herbicides and practicing monoculture. Another possible cause, according to Haefeker, is the controversial and growing use of genetic engineering in agriculture.

As far back as 2005, Haefeker ended an article he contributed to the journal Der Kritischer Agrarbericht (Critical Agricultural Report) with an Albert Einstein quote: "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."

Mysterious events in recent months have suddenly made Einstein's apocalyptic vision seem all the more topical. For unknown reasons, bee populations throughout Germany are disappearing -- something that is so far only harming beekeepers. But the situation is different in the United States, where bees are dying in such dramatic numbers that the economic consequences could soon be dire. No one knows what is causing the bees to perish, but some experts believe that the large-scale use of genetically modified plants in the US could be a factor.