Thousands of people all over India and the world are joining the *NationalDay of Fast* on *Jan 30th - Gandhiji's anniversary*. From Kerala to Delhiand Bengal to Gujarat in Inda, and Baton Rouge to Boston in the US (see listof events/locations below), they are opposing the introduction ofgenetically modified (GM) Bt Brinjal into the Indian markets. GM foods likeBt brinjal pose a large threat to health, agriculture and environment, andthey need to be strongly opposed in order to preserve farmers' self-relianceand control over seeds and agriculture, and protect the consumers' access tosafe healthy food.

Will the local economy movement replace the 'climate movement'?

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Friday, Aug. 21, 2009

by Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine

Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won't bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antibiotics. The waste produced by the pig and his thousands of pen mates on the factory farm where they live goes into manure lagoons that blanket neighboring communities with air pollution and a stomach-churning stench. He's fed on American corn that was grown with the help of government subsidies and millions of tons of chemical fertilizer. When the pig is slaughtered, at about 5 months of age, he'll become sausage or bacon that will sell cheap, feeding an American addiction to meat that has contributed to an obesity epidemic currently afflicting more than two-thirds of the population. And when the rains come, the excess fertilizer that coaxed so much corn from the ground will be washed into the Mississippi River and down into the Gulf of Mexico, where it will help kill fish for miles and miles around. That's the state of your bacon — circa 2009. (See TIME's photo-essay "From Farm to Fork.")