Agriculture
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 6 October 2020
6 October 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Environmental Factors to Blame for Increase in Childhood Cancers – New Coalition Report A 34% increase in childhood cancers since 1975 has led a group of scientists, health professionals, businesses, and advocates to ignite a call to action to highlight preventable environmental factors that threaten our children.… Continue reading
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Gates Foundation doubles down on misinfo campaign at Cornell as African leaders call for agroecology
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded another $10 million last week to the controversial Cornell Alliance for Science, a communications campaign housed at Cornell that trains fellows in Africa and elsewhere to promote and defend genetically engineered foods, crops and agrichemicals. The new grant brings BMGF grants to the group to $22 million. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 22 September 2020
22 September 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Thailand’s Reversal on Glyphosate Ban Came after Bayer Scripted US Intervention, Documents Show A year ago Thailand was set to ban the widely used weed killing chemical glyphosate, a move applauded by public health advocates because of evidence the chemical causes cancer, along with other harms to people… Continue reading
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GMO promoter Krebs misleads the BBC and the British public on gene editing
Below is a transcript of what the GMO promoter and member of the UK’s House of Lords, John Krebs, told the BBC in an interview about the government’s intention to deregulate gene editing so that it’s no longer defined and regulated as a genetic modification technique. Continue reading
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Poisoning of organic farmer in pesticide attack “a game-changer” in France
An organic farmer’s hospitalisation after intruders doused his vegetables with glyphosate has “become a cause célèbre in France, which is facing a growing backlash against intensive agriculture”, reports Henry Samuel in The Telegraph. Continue reading
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From Cotton to Brinjal: Fraudulent GMO Project in India Sustained by Deception
Insecticidal Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton is the first and only GM (genetically modified) crop that has been approved in India. It has been cultivated in the country for more than 20 years. In a formal statement to the Supreme Court of India, the Indian government has asserted that hybrid Bt cotton is an outstanding success.… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 21 August 2020
21 August 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Florida Approves Release of 750 Million GM Mosquitoes amidst Public Outcry The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) approved Tuesday the first-ever U.S. release of genetically modified mosquitoes. Despite public outcry and scientific dispute over the human health and environment risks posed by this field trial, the… Continue reading
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Who’s pulling Boris Johnson’s strings on GMOs?
Were you surprised when one of the very first things Boris Johnson did on becoming Prime Minister was to declare his desire to “liberate” the UK “from anti-genetic modification rules”? If it left you wondering, “Where did that come from?”, then you should pay careful attention to the wave of revulsion that has just greeted… Continue reading
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Dead Zones: Industrial Agriculture versus Ocean Life
Worldwide, there are now over a thousand coastal areas where fish can’t breathe. The nitrogen that makes crops grow is also destroying offshore ecosystems. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 3 August 2020
3 August 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks New Report Shows Africa’s Green Revolution is “Failing On Its Own Terms” Fourteen years ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller foundations launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) with the goal of bringing Africa its own Green Revolution in agricultural productivity. Armed… Continue reading
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UK: GE deregulation amendment is withdrawn – but there is more work to do
In its last meeting before the summer recess, the House of Lords finally debated Amendment 275 of the Agriculture Bill, which proposed to deregulate products of gene editing in UK agriculture. Continue reading
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Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse for the UK?
The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal behaviour. That’s the message put forward in a new report written by environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason and sent to the UK Environment Agency. It follows her January 2019 open letter to Werner Baumann, CEO of Bayer… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 27 July 2020
27 July 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks As Evidence of ‘Hormone Disruptor’ Chemical Threats Grows, Experts Call for Stricter Regulation A growing number of chemicals in pesticides, flame retardants, and certain plastics have been linked to widespread health problems including infertility in women and men, diabetes, and impaired brain development, a set of reviews of hundreds of… Continue reading
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British people won’t thank the NFU for its stance on gene editing
So if the NFU is truly defending higher UK food standards, why is it simultaneously enabling the introduction of this controversial, risky technology that the British public, if asked, would surely reject? Continue reading
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Pesticides speed the spread of deadly parasites
Even low concentrations of pesticides can increase transmission and weaken efforts to control the second most common parasitic disease Continue reading
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Is lab-grown meat the future of food?
Documentary on ‘clean meat’ fails to question the technology’s rationale and blindly accepts dubious claims made by its promoters Continue reading
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DesSmog UK: Appointing the experts
17 July 2020 — DesSmogUK Who would you call if you were to set up a group to maintain “animal welfare and environmental standards” in post-Brexit trade deals? Someone who knew about and enjoyed protecting environmental standards, perhaps? Maybe someone who knew about and liked animal welfare? Continue reading
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False Promises: The ‘Green Revolution in Africa’ is failing on its own terms
A negative report card. Yield increases for key staple crops in the years before AGRA were just as low as during AGRA. The number of people going hungry has increased by 30 percent during the AGRA years. (Click image to download report.) The Gates Foundation’s billion dollar project is a vicious circle that drives small-scale… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 13 July 2020
13 July 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks India Set to Restrict Who Can Spray Glyphosate Herbicides in Big Blow for Bayer Glyphosate is the most used weedkiller in India with over 675,000 Kg of it spread on Indian farmland in 2018-2019, however a new change on who is allowed to spray glyphosate, which is… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Pandemic Edition (July 2020)
6 July 2020 — Climate & Capitalism A special edition of Ecosocialist Bookshelf: six books we recommend for understanding the deadliest global health crisis of our time Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. This edition focuses on viruses and health care, on capitalism’s failure to protect human health, and radical alternatives. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 