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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...
Copenhagen: Life in the Slow Lane
Colin Todhunter Indian cities are in crisis. Spend any length of time in a large city there and you...
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...
Nuclear War: Just Another Day
Colin Todhunter Catastrophic events that send the world into turmoil happen on ‘just another day’. The atom bomb that...
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...
Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate: Irresponsible, Negligent and Criminal?
Colin Todhunter In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: Let’s start now to...
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...
Life Expectancy Falters in the UK
Colin Todhunter A special report in the Observer newspaper in the UK on 23 June 2019 asked the question:...
From Mad Cow Disease to Agrochemicals: Time to Put Public Need Ahead of Private Greed
Colin Todhunter The first part of this article documenting the development of BSE in Britain was written by Rosemary...
From the Green Revolution to GMOs: Toxic Agriculture Is the Problem Not the Solution
Colin Todhunter Why did the European Food Safety Authority claim that glyphosate was not ecotoxic? This is the question...
From Dollar Hegemony to Global Warming: Globalization, Glyphosate and Doctrines of Consent
Colin Todhunter There has been an on-going tectonic shift in the West since the abandonment of the Bretton Woods...
Encouraging Illegal Planting of Bt Brinjal in India
Colin Todhunter In February 2010, the Indian government placed an indefinite moratorium on the commercial release of Bt brinjal....
From Glyphosate to Front Groups: Fraud, Deception and Toxic Tactics
Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to the Editor-in-Chief of the British Medical Journal and the British Medical...
