Science & Public Interest Halt the Push for GM Crops in India: Approval by Contamination?
Colin Todhunter Between 1991 and 2016, the population of Delhi and its suburbs increased from 9.4 million to 25 million. In 2023, the World Population Review website estimates Delhi’s...
Let Them Eat Bugs: Challenging the WEF’s Corporate-Driven Food Reset
Colin Todhunter The prevailing globalised agrifood model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement and land dispossession. It fuels commodity monocropping and food...
Bellies of the Rich Swell Further on the Back of Hunger
Colin todhunter It’s a zero-sum situation. The rich are robbing the poor to swell their coffers – and their bellies. In April 2022, Oxfam reported a terrifying prospect of more than a...
A Hard-Edged Rock: Waging Economic Warfare on Humanity
Colin Todhunter Why is much modern food of inferior quality? Why is health suffering and smallholder farmers who feed most of the world being forced out of agriculture? Mainly...
The Netherlands: Template for Ecomodernism’s Brave New World?
Colin Todhunter Disaster capitalism and crisis narratives are currently being used to manipulate popular sentiment and push through a set of unpalatable policies that would otherwise lack sufficient political support....
Reimagining Food, Farming & Humanity: Ecomodernism’s Dystopia
Colin todhunter “Ecomodernists offer no solutions to contemporary problems other than technical innovation and further integration into private markets which are structured systematically by centralized state power in favour...
Lab-grown meat & nuclear yeast vats: COP27 reignites the war on food
Kit Knightly We’re a week into this year’s UN climate summit, COP27, and the various agenda planned to roll out on the back of it are coming into focus....
India’s GMOs: A 30-Year Pathway to Food Tyranny
Colin Todhunter A public interest litigation is currently before India’s Supreme Court which challenges the drive to commercialise the growing of genetically modified (GM) mustard in India. On 26...
Dutch Farmers Resisting the Toxic Transition
Colin Todhunter In recent years, governments have been demonstrating their subservience to their billionaire masters in Big Finance, the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, BlackRock and the entire gamut of...
How “Food Shortages” & Economic Collapse Protects the Status Quo
Colin Todhunter In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine. Guterres said...
From Bill Gates to the Great Refusal – Farmers on the Frontline
Colin Todhunter Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most humans were engaged in agriculture. Our relationship with nature was immediate. Within just a few generations, however, for many people across...
Ignore the Prophets of Doom – Organic food can feed the world
Colin Todhunter As oil and gas prices rise so does the price of artificial chemical fertilisers – the lynch-pin of industrial agriculture’s claims to be ‘efficient’. In the UK,...
The Dutch Farmers’ Protest and the War on Food
Kit Knightly This week, tens of thousands of farmers have gathered from all across the Netherlands to protest government policies which will reduce the number of livestock in the...
They’re coming for your backyard chickens…
Kit Knightly Since the “bird flu outbreak” first hit the headlines OffG has been predicting how the inevitable agenda would unfold. The first impact was as obvious as it...
Pouring Poison and Planting Seeds of Dependency
Colin Todhunter Audio Version New Feature! Do you remember the iconic Union Carbide image from the 1950s or early 1960s? The one with the giant hand coming from the...
Farmers’ Struggle Not Over: Corporate Takeover of Indian Agriculture Still Looms
Colin Todhunter The following is an unpublished transcript of an interview the author did for a UK-based TV channel that covers issues of interest to the worldwide Sikh diaspora....
“Genetically Edited” Food – The next stage of the Great Reset?
Kit Knightly Audio Version New Feature! The Queen’s Speech was interesting this year. For all the people outside the UK who don’t understand what the “Queens Speech” actually is,...
This Week in the New Normal #29
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
Localization: An Alternative to the New Normal
Colin Todhunter ‘World Localization Day’ will be celebrated on 20 June. Organised by the non-profit Local Futures, this annual coming together of people from across the world began in 2020...
5 signs they are CREATING a food crisis
Kit Knightly It’s no secret that, according to politicians and the corporate press, “food shortages” and a “food supply crises” have been on the way for a while now....
