Waltzing With Bayer
Aruna Rodrigues
In 2005, I was lead claimant in an antiGMO Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed with the Indian Supreme Court (ArunaRodrigues & Ors. vs.Union of India, Writ Petition (Civil)...
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 is a serious, proven conflict of interest among officials in...
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 and the evidence on GM crops to date, the Union...
Resisting Genetically Mutilated Food & the Eco-Modern Nightmare: Together, ‘Just You and Me’
Colin Todhunter This image is symbolic of everything that is wrong with modern society. A gas leak from Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal in 1984 resulted in around...
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...
From Net Zero to Glyphosate: Agritech’s Greenwashed Corporate Power Grab
Colin Todhunter Today, in the mainstream narrative, there is much talk of a ‘food transition’. Big agribusiness and ‘philanthropic’ foundations position themselves as the saviours of humanity due to...
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...
From Rachel Carson to Monsanto: The Silence of Spring
Colin Todhunter Former Monsanto Chairman and CEO Hugh Grant is currently in the news. He is trying to avoid appearing in court to be questioned by lawyers on behalf...
Saving Capitalism or Saving the Planet?
Colin Todhunter The UK government’s Behavioural Insights Team helped to push the public towards accepting the COVID narrative, restrictions and lockdowns. It is now working on ‘nudging’ people towards...
A Message to the EU: Address the Real Public Health Crisis by Banning Glyphosate
Colin Todhunter & Rosemary Mason The herbicide glyphosate – the most widely used herbicide on the planet – is authorised for use in the EU until December 2022. The...
Science, Salvation and Heretics: From Monsanto to Pfizer it’s the same old playbook
Colin Todhunter Why are numerous ‘independent alternative’ media outlets and writers not questioning the COVID-19 vaccine rollout? If anything, they are promoting it without even considering the serious concerns...
Toxic Corporations Are Destroying the Planet’s Soil
Colin Todhunter A newly published analysis in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science argues that a toxic soup of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides is causing havoc beneath fields covered...
Campaigners: “Ban Glyphosate to protect public health!”
Colin Todhunter On 9 April 2021, retired physician and health and environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason wrote to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA). She wanted to draw the...
Crisis, What Crisis? Hypocrisy and Public Health in the UK
Rosemary Mason & Colin Todhunter On 12 March 2020, British PM Boris Johnson, referring to COVID-19, informed the public: We’ve all got to be clear; this is the worst...
Lockdown: Locking in the New Global Order
Colin Todhunter On 12 March, British PM Boris Johnson informed the public that families would continue to “lose loved ones before their time” as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. He...
Apocalypse Now! Insects, Pesticides and a Public Health Crisis
Colin Todhunter In 2017, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, and UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics, Baskut Tuncak, produced a report that called for a...
Gone Fishing? No Fish, but Plenty of Pesticides & a Public Health Crisis
Colin Todhunter There is mounting evidence that a healthy soil microbiome protects plants from pests and diseases. One of the greatest natural assets that humankind has is soil. But...
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...
Agrarian Crisis and Malnutrition: GM Agriculture Is Not the Answer
Colin Todhunter M.S. Swaminathan is often referred to as the ‘father’ of India’s Green Revolution. In 2009, he said that no scientific evidence had emerged to justify concerns about...
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 and Chairman of the Board Werner Wenning. She has also...
