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...
Bathed in Pesticides: the Narrative of Deception
Rosemary Mason & Colin Todhunter The volume of pesticide use and exposure is occurring on a scale that is without precedent and world-historical in nature. Agrichemicals are now pervasive...
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...
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...
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 for 2019. The report focuses on UK engagement with global health...
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: Why is life expectancy faltering? The piece noted that for...
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 environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason poses in her new 23-page report...
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 Association Council Chairman, Chaand Nagpaul.
European Commission serving a corporate agenda
by Colin Todhunter* A report released last year by the watchdog body Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) revealed huge conflicts of interests in the Scientific Committees under DG SANCO, the European Commission’s department...
