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Beneath the Concrete, the Soil Still Whispers
Colin Todhunter
Gleaming office buildings, concrete flyovers and ever-sprawling housing developments and industrial parks, the modern city is increasingly presented as...
The Agrarian Imagination: The Iron Cage of Agri-Rationality and Dostoevsky ‘s Moral Underground
Colin Todhunter
“A great deal depends upon a right relationship with the soil; the right relationship with the soil is the...
Yuck! The Sour Taste of the Modern Food System
Colin Todhunter
The Yuka app is a mobile application designed to help consumers quickly assess the health quality of food and...
Digital Harvest: BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street – Shareholders in the Shadows
Colin Todhunter
They don’t sell seeds. They don’t own tractors. They don’t run warehouses or ship grain. But BlackRock, Vanguard and...
“Lab-grown meat could erase the need for farming”
Kit Knightly
Professor Luke O’Neill of Trinity College gave an interview to the Show Me the Science podcast a few days...
Toxic Agribusiness’s Genetically Mutilated Greenwash
Colin Todhunter
In recent years, the global movement toward regenerative and organic agriculture has gained significant momentum. These approaches promise to...
WATCH: How to Get Eggs for Free! – #SolutionsWatch
Are you concerned with the price of eggs? Well, as I see it, there are two options. Either you...
Farm Laws Reborn: Tear Gas, Water Cannons and a Toxic Platter for India’s Farmers and Consumers
CST Research
India could see an authoritarian central government with subordinate state governments under the control of corporate interests and international...
A Faustian Bargain with Corporate Power: From Monsanto to Bayer, the Worst of Both Worlds
Colin Todhunter
Environmentalist and campaigner Rosemary Mason has been relentlessly exposing the insidious effects of agrochemicals on human health and the...
The Violence of Development
Colin Todhunter
The following article is taken from a revised version (Sept 2024) of the author’s open-access book Food, Dependency and...
WATCH: The Future of Food is OURS to Decide – #SolutionsWatch
Using our knowledge of the Future of Food agenda, today James explores ways that we can negate that agenda...
Stranglehold of Imperialism: Inflicting Hunger and Hardship in Africa
CST Research
In late June, Kenyan President William Ruto backtracked on a tax-hiking finance bill after protests left at least 20...
Amazon Gets Fresh, Bayer Loves Basmati: Toxic Influences in Indian Agriculture
CST Research
The citizens of India have a problem. In what the media like to call ‘the world’s biggest democracy’, there...
War on Farmers: World Bank Sowing Seed-Colonialism in Africa
Colin Todhunter
In Kenya, a law was passed in 2012 that prohibits farmers’ rights to save, share, exchange or sell unregistered...
How (and why) Bird Flu is About to Enter the “Mass Testing” Phase
Kit Knightly
Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of Bird Flu Digest, formerly known as OffGuardian. The wall-to-wall coverage...
WATCH: The Future of Food
We all know the problems of the modern factory farming system. But, as bad as things are, they’re about...
[UPDATED] And the Bird Flu just keeps on coming…
Kit Knightly
The bird flu narrative is constantly developing, so I figured it was time for an update. You know…to keep...
Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming
Colin Todhunter
Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe. In the UK, an influx...
“A Victory for Farmers”: Supreme Court Halts Genetically Modified Rice
Colin Todhunter
On 19 April 2024, the Philippines Supreme Court issued a cease-and-desist order on the commercial propagation of genetically modified...
“Bird Flu is back…so stop eating beef!”
Kit Knightly
They're teasing "the next pandemic" again. ...and this time "bird flu outbreak" can be traced back to cattle. So...
