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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...
Angels and Demons: Imperialism and War, ‘Chavs’ and Jeremy Kyle
Colin Todhunter The father of modern public relations and spin, Edward Bernays was a cynical manipulator of mass perception....
Illegal Bt Brinjal In India
Colin Todhunter What is the point in central government orders and carefully thought out regulatory norms if government officials...
Post-Brexit Farming, Glyphosate and GMOs
The following is an edited and abridged version of an open letter recently sent by Dr Rosemary Mason to...
Bt Brinjal Illegally Growing in India: Who Is Really Pulling the Strings?
Colin Todhunter In February 2010, the Indian government placed an indefinite moratorium on the commercial release of Bt brinjal....
As the 2019 Indian General Election Takes Place, Are the Nation’s Farmers Being Dealt a Knock-Out Blow?
Colin Todhunter In 1830, British colonial administrator Lord Metcalfe said India’s villages were little republics that had nearly everything...
Indian Manifesto Demands Indefinite Moratorium on GMO
A new ‘Political Manifesto’ has demanded an indefinite moratorium on the environmental release of GMOs in India pending independent...
India’s Agrarian Crisis: Dismantling ‘Development’
Colin Todhunter In his 1978 book ‘India Mortgaged’, T.N. Reddy predicted the country would one day open all sectors...
Crocodile Tears for Venezuela
On 26 February, Stephen Hickey, UK political coordinator at the United Nations, delivered a statement at the Security Council...
