They're teasing "the next pandemic" again. ...and this time "bird flu outbreak" can be traced back to cattle. So that's no eggs, poultry OR beef. Healthy tyranny and war...
You know how #SolutionsWatch replaced #PropagandaWatch three years ago? Well, I found a piece of propaganda so crazy, so self-contradictory, so hilariously reaching, so weirdly self-deconstructing that it has...
The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What’s it all about? To understand these...
This article begins with a short video based on an interview with researcher Sandi Adams, who describes the plans for agriculture in the rural county of Somerset in south-west...
Colin Todhunter In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that were intended to ‘liberalise’ the agriculture sector. Now, in 2024,...
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...
Colin Todhunter The world is experiencing a micronutrient food and health crisis. Micronutrient deficiency now affects billions of people. Micronutrients are key vitamins and minerals and deficiencies can cause...
Kit Knightly Have you ever made a prediction and wished you’d recorded it? Last week, in a phone conversation with a family member, they happened to mention growing their...
This year’s World Economic Forum annual meeting kicked off in Davos, Switzerland yesterday and will be running until the 19th. The guest list is as star-powered as ever, including...
The modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit. Aside from losing their land to global investors and big agribusiness concerns, people are being sickened...
Kit Knightly On November 29th, the British Parliament’s cross-party Environmental Audit Committee published a new report on “Environmental change and food security”. The timing of the report is more...
Kit Knightly As of this morning, we are four days into the two-week climate change summit in Dubai. Yes, as we can all note for the thousandth time, literal...
Colin Todhunter Bayer, which profits from various environmentally harmful and disease-causing chemicals like glyphosate, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) “to develop resource-efficient, climate-resilient...
Colin Todhunter The modern food system is responsible for making swathes of humanity ill, causing unnecessary suffering and sending many people to an early grave. It is part of...
Colin Todhunter MS Swaminathan, widely regarded as the father of the Green Revolution in India, recently passed away (28 September) at the age of 98. An agronomist, agricultural scientist and plant...
Colin Todhunter Today, we are witnessing the nudging (manipulation) of the population to accept a ‘new normal’ based on a climate emergency narrative, restrictions on movement and travel, programmable...
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...
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...
Kit Knightly There is a growing international campaign to institute free school meals all around the globe. On face of it this might seem like a great idea… but...
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...