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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...
WATCH: Eat Ze Bugs or You’re Racist!
You know how #SolutionsWatch replaced #PropagandaWatch three years ago? Well, I found a piece of propaganda so crazy, so...
Net Zero, the Digital Panopticon and the Future of Food
Colin Todhunter
The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and...
The ‘Food Transition’ Is a War on Food, Farmers and the Public
Colin Todhunter
This article begins with a short video based on an interview with researcher Sandi Adams, who describes the plans...
Farmers’ Protest in India Reignites: A Struggle for the Future of Food and Agriculture
Colin Todhunter In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that...
How GMOs will destroy Indian agriculture
Aruna Rodrigues Hybrid Bt cotton, the only commercialised GM crop in India, has failed conclusively. Based on this failure...
Sick to Death: Unhealthy Food and Failed Technologies
Colin Todhunter The world is experiencing a micronutrient food and health crisis. Micronutrient deficiency now affects billions of people....
“Growing your own vegetables is bad for the planet”
Kit Knightly Have you ever made a prediction and wished you’d recorded it? Last week, in a phone conversation...
Sickening Profits — The Global Food System’s Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth
The modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit. Aside from losing their land to...
