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  Seedling July 2008
June 2008
In this issue of Seedling we have three articles on the current food crisis, including an article by Vandana Shiva. Seedling interviews Tim Lang, professor of Food Policy at City University in the UK and Patrice Sagbo writes on the impact of bird flu in Benin. Along with a number of smaller articles and a film review, read Seedling online here:
http://www.grain.org/seedling/?type=73
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 Food safety - rigging the game
June 2008
As the push toward neoliberalism advances, and quantitative measures to protect local markets, such as tariffs and quotas, disappear, industrial powers are turning to qualitative measures such as food safety regulations to further skew trade in their favour. In the food safety arena, both the US and the EU are pressing their standards on other countries. For Washington, even though its own food safety system is widely criticised as too lax, this means getting countries to accept GMOs and US meat safety inspections. For Brussels, whose food safety standards have a much better reputation, it means imposing high standards on countries that cannot meet them. Bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) have become a tool of choice to push through the changes.
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 Making a killing from the food crisis
April 2008
The world food crisis is hurting a lot of people, but global agribusiness firms, traders and speculators are raking in huge profits. The fundamental cause of today's food crisis is neoliberal globalisation itself, which has transformed food from a source of livelihood security into a mere commodity to be gambled away, even at the cost of widespread hunger among the world’s poorest people.
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