Can GM crops really “feed the world”?
Colin Todhunter A common claim is that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are essential to agriculture if we are to feed an ever-growing global population. Supporters of genetically engineered (GE)...
Capitalism and the Gut-Wrenching Hijack of India
Colin Todhunter In India, the ‘development’ paradigm is premised on moving farmers out of agriculture and into the cities to work in construction, manufacturing or the service sector, despite...
The Right to Healthy Food: Poisoned with Pesticides
Colin Todhunter Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter addressed to three senior officials in Britain: John Gardiner, Under Secretary of State for the Department for...
Don’t Look, Don’t See: Pesticides in the MSM
Colin Todhunter The UK-based Independent online newspaper recently published an article about a potential link between air pollution from vehicles and glaucoma. It stated that according to a new...
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 for some of the planet’s most pressing political, social and environmental...
Poisoning the Public: Toxic Agrochemicals and Regulators’ Collusion with Industry
Colin Todhunter In January 2019, campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason lodged a complaint with the European Ombudsman accusing European regulatory agencies of collusion with the agrochemicals industry. This was in...
Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism
Colin Todhunter In 2015, India’s internal intelligence agency wrote a report that depicted various campaigners and groups as working against the national interest. The report singled out environmental activists...
End of an Era: Big Agriculture and the Fall of American Dairy
J Birchfield The ongoing American dairy farmer debacle deeply bothers me, and every time I see another reference to it I’m forcing myself to think it through. Extra cheap...
India Mortgaged? Forced-Fed Illness and the Neoliberal Food Regime
Colin Todhunter Like many countries, India’s food system was essentially clean just a generation or two ago but is now being comprehensively contaminated with sugar, bad fats, synthetic additives,...
