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Why Food Systems Are Breaking Down Across The World
Colin Todhunter Fast food nations and global nutrition Daniel Maingi works with small farmers in Kenya and belongs to...
Can GM crops really “feed the world”?
Colin Todhunter A common claim is that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are essential to agriculture if we are to...
Gone Fishing? No Fish, but Plenty of Pesticides & a Public Health Crisis
Colin Todhunter There is mounting evidence that a healthy soil microbiome protects plants from pests and diseases. One of...
GM in India: Faking it on the Astroturf
Colin Todhunter According to a recent report in The Hindu Business Line, India’s intelligence agencies are investigating the role of a...
Capitalism and the Gut-Wrenching Hijack of India
Colin Todhunter In India, the ‘development’ paradigm is premised on moving farmers out of agriculture and into the cities...
The Right to Healthy Food: Poisoned with Pesticides
Colin Todhunter Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter addressed to three senior officials in Britain:...
Don’t Look, Don’t See: Pesticides in the MSM
Colin Todhunter The UK-based Independent online newspaper recently published an article about a potential link between air pollution from...
Hunger Games: Food Abundance and Twisted Truths
Colin Todhunter The world already produces enough food to feed 10 billion people but over two billion are experiencing micronutrient deficiencies (of which...
Agrarian Crisis and Malnutrition: GM Agriculture Is Not the Answer
Colin Todhunter M.S. Swaminathan is often referred to as the ‘father’ of India’s Green Revolution. In 2009, he said...
Golden Rice: GM Silver Bullet that Misses the Target
Promoters of genetic modification (GM) in agriculture have long argued that genetically engineered Golden Rice is a practical way...
Asia-Pacific Trade Deal: Trading Away Indian Agriculture?
Colin Todhunter On the back of Brexit, there are fears in the UK that a trade deal will be...
Bayer Shareholders: Put Health and Nature First and Stop Funding This Company!
Colin Todhunter Campaigner and environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter to Bayer Crop Science shareholders...
Right Kind of Green: Agroecology
Colin Todhunter The globalised industrial food system that transnational agri-food conglomerates promote is failing to feed the world. It is responsible...
Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual
It is worrying to think that, globally, sales of synthetic chemicals are to double over the next 12 years...
UK Govt. Ignore Pesticides as Cause of Increased Disease
Colin Todhunter The information below and the quotes were taken from the 12-page report that accompanied Rosemary Mason’s recent...
GMOs: Magic Seeds and Broken Promises
Colin Todhunter Political posturing aligned with commercial interests means that truth is becoming a casualty in the debate about...
Offering Choice but Delivering Tyranny: The Corporate Capture of Agriculture
Colin Todhunter Many lobbyists talk a lot about critics of genetic engineering technology denying choice to farmers. They say...
Sick to the Stomach: Pesticides and the Cocktail of Toxicity
Colin Todhunter Dame Sally Davies is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and recently released the CMO annual report...
India’s Tryst with Destiny
Colin Todhunter Today, we are in the grip of a globalised system of capitalism which drives narcissism, domination, ego,...
Poisoned for Profit: We Are Not the Agrochemical Industry’s Guinea Pigs
Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Department for Food, Environment...
