A Farm For The Future (BBC Documentary)
Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon, UK into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. […]
Revealed: Rothamsted scientist’s role in destruction of key GM research
GM-Free Cymru, 20 May 2012 It has been revealed that Professor John Pickett, the team leader behind Rothamsted's controversial GM wheat trial, was one of the leading players in the destruction of a GM safety experiment more than 13 years ago. He did not need to pull up a GM crop. […]
6 Reasons organic agriculture can feed the world
Coach Mark Smallwood*, Marias Farm Country Kitchen, 3 April 2012 Here are some sound bites to throw back the next time friends, family members, or even strangers tell you we need super-chemicals and GMOs to feed the world. […]
Bhutan rails against world’s ‘suicidal path’
Himalayan nation calls on heads of state to come to capital for summit on way countries measure progress. John Vidal, The Guardian, 2 April 2012 The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, aghast at what it calls the world's "suicidal path", […]
Lethal effects of genetically modified Bt Toxin confirmed on young ladybird larvae
ScienceDaily, 27 Feb 2012. Swiss researchers of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich confirm earlier findings that the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin Cry1Ab produced for pesticidal purposes by genetically modified (GM) Bt maize increases mortality in the young ladybird larvae (Adalia bipunctata L., two-spotted ladybird) in laboratory tests. […]
France calls on Commission to ban Monsanto GM corn
Nathan Grey, Food Navigator.com, 22 Feb 2012. The French Government have called on the European Commission to suspend the authorisation to grow Monsanto’s genetically modified MON810GM corn seeds in the EU. Continue Reading >>
Organic job growth about to explode
Rodale, 15 Feb 2012 More organic products will line supermarket shelves – in the U.S. and abroad – thanks to a trade deal signed into law this week. It's no secret that the U.S. market needs a jolt. And a major announcement Wednesday means that organics could be at the heart of an economic revival [...]
Vanishing of the bees: Beekeeper leaks EPA
Dr. Mercola, mercola.com, 28 Jan 2012 Bees have been dying off around the world for more than a decade now, a phenomenon that has been named "Colony Collapse Disorder," or CCD. The U.S. and the U.K. both reported losing a third of their honeybees in 2010. Italy lost half. The die-offs have spread to China and [...]
Why is Africa falling apart?
Evaggelos Vallianatos, Truthout, 9 Nov 2011 In 1769, J. H. Bernardin de Saint Pierre, a French royal officer, said he was not so sure that coffee and sugar were "really essential to the comfort of Europe." But he was certain that these two crops "have brought wretchedness and misery upon America and Africa. The former [...]
Why you need to eat more lard (and 5 other healthy fats)
Emily Main, Rodale, 20 Dec 2011 Olive oil is sooooo five minutes ago. People who are into healthy cooking oils and fats have moved on to duck fat, real lard, goose renderings, and coconut oil, according to a new report […]