Friday, 3 March 2023 — Pesticide Action Network
Category: Environment
Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 17 February 2023
Friday, 17 February 2023 — Sustainable Pulse
GMO Salmon Production Fails as AquaBounty Turns to Non-GMO Salmon Egg Sales
In a major turn-around, the US company AquaBounty says it will stop producing its controversial genetically modified Atlantic salmon in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. “This is a huge victory for everyone in PEI and across Canada who protested against this dangerous technology,” said Sharon Labchuk of the coalition GMO Free PEI. “Genetically modified fish are unnecessary […]
Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism
Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — CoverAction Magazine
[Source: boucherie-abolition.com]
From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck.
[This article inaugurates Ms. Gjovik’s new column for CovertAction Magazine spotlighting the abuses of U.S. multinational corporations worldwide.—Editors]
On Cop City, Lützerath, and biodiversity & colonialist conservation
Sunday, 5 February 2023 — Uneven Earth
Photo: Jesse Pratt López via Vice
Once a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: news you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental justice, radical municipalism, new politics, political theory, and resources for action and education.
Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 27 January 2023
Friday, 27 January 2023 — Sustainable Pulse
New US Research Finds “Worrying” Evidence Linking Monsanto Weedkiller to Cancer
New research by top US government scientists has found that people exposed to the widely used weed killing chemical glyphosate have biomarkers in their urine linked to the development of cancer and other diseases, The New Lede reported. Source: The New Lede, By Carey Gillam The study, published last week in the Journal of the National Cancer […]
Degrowth and the end of capitalism
Saturday, 17 December 2022 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
Book review: A powerful polemic against capitalism’s planetary destruction, and an engaging look at the degrowth movement
Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter and Aaron Vansintjan
THE FUTURE IS DEGROWTH
A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
Verso, 2022
reviewed by Martin Empson
Uneven Earth’s November readings
Monday, 12 December 2022 — Uneven Earth
On AI, the COP, and why having more fun is good for the planet
Once a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: news you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental justice, radical municipalism, new politics, political theory, and resources for action and education.
Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 2 December 2022
Friday, 2 December 2022 — Sustainable Pulse
Editors’ picks
New Figures Show Massive Decrease in Planting of GM Crops in European Union
Figures for the area under MON810, the only transgenic GMO crop authorized for cultivation in the European Union, have just been published. And it’s a downward spiral: a third less than last year. In Spain and Portugal the transgenic area has fallen below 100,000 hectares for both countries combined, Inf’OGM reported. Source: Inf’OGM In 2016, […]
Pesticide Action Network News – November 2022
Sunday, 27 November 2022 — Pesticide Action Network
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Silent Spring, one of the most important environmental books of the 20th century. We dedicate this November issue of Pesticide News to the book’s author, Rachel Carson, who wrote a ground-breaking, ecological alarm call that we are still rallying behind today.
‘Capital’s attack on nature endangers humanity’
Monday, 14 November, 2022 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
MST Calls for Action
Brazilian peasant leader: Build a global movement to save humanity and our common home!
Emiliano Di Cavalcanti (Brazil), Projeto de Mural (‘Mural Project’), 1950.
João Pedro Stedile
Speech by João Pedro Stedile, a leader of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) and the global peasants’ organization La Via Campesina, at the Vatican in late October. English translation first published by Vijay Prashad in the newsletter of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 11 November 2022
Friday, 11 November 2022 — Sustainable Pulse
New Large Scale Biomonitoring Results Show Increasing Herbicide Exposure in Pregnant Women
The average level of dicamba herbicide in the urine of pregnant women has increased more than 3-fold since 2017, the year widespread planting of dicamba-tolerant GMO crops began, Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA) reported on Tuesday. Dicamba levels in urine have risen dramatically compared to levels of 2,4-D. In 2010-2014, the average level of 2,4-D […]
Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 28 October 2022
Friday, 28 October 2022 — Sustainable Pulse
Indian Government Restricts Use of Glyphosate in Massive Blow to Agrichemical Lobby
The Indian government has restricted the use of glyphosate-based herbicides due to the risks to human and animal health. On Tuesday the Agricultural Ministry stated in a notification that “the use of glyphosate is prohibited and no person, except Pest Control Operators (PCOs), shall use glyphosate.” The government statement added that all agrichemical companies have […]
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Uneven Earth’s September readings
Tuesday, 18 October 2022 — Uneven Earth
On Pakistan’s superfloods, sustainable living in Uruguay, and the importance of third places
Once a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: news you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental justice, radical municipalism, new politics, political theory, and resources for action and education.
Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 26 August 2022
Friday, 26 August 2022 — Sustainable Pulse
Florida University Study Shows Glyphosate Causes Convulsions in Animals
A recent report by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found more than 80 percent of urine samples from children and adults in the U.S. contained the herbicide glyphosate. A study by Florida Atlantic University and Nova Southeastern University takes this research one step further and is the first to link the use of […]
FDA Finds Majority of Foods in America Contain Pesticide Residues
Over half of all food samples tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contain the residues of at least one pesticide, and one in ten samples have levels that violate legal limits established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Beyond Pesticides reported Monday. Source: Beyond Pesticides These findings, published by the FDA […]
Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 19 August 2022
Friday, 19 August 2022 — Sustainable Pulse
FDA Finds Majority of Foods in America Contain Pesticide Residues
Over half of all food samples tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contain the residues of at least one pesticide, and one in ten samples have levels that violate legal limits established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Beyond Pesticides reported Monday. Source: Beyond Pesticides These findings, published by the FDA […] Read more
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Books: Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
Friday, 5 August, 2022 — — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
To stop illegal logging we must understand the poachers
Lyndsie Bourgon
TREE THIEVES
Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
Little, Brown, 2022
Reviewed by Martin Empson
Forests are one of the world’s most important biological reserves. They suck about a third of humanity’s carbon emissions out of the atmosphere each year. According to the United Nations, forests also “contain 60,000 different tree species, 80 percent of amphibian species, 75 percent of bird species, and 68 percent of the world’s mammal species.” Despite this importance, tree cover is being lost at an alarming rate, and as Lyndsie Bourgon’s new book details, significant damage to our forests comes from the illegal trade in wood, driven by the poaching of trees.
Uneven Earth’s Monthly Readings August 2022
Tuesday, 2 August 2022 — Uneven Earth
Summer readings
On our burning planet, the impact of private jets, socialist solidarity, and the growth of degrowth
Once a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: news you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental justice, radical municipalism, new politics, political theory, and resources for action and education.
Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 28 July 2022
Thursday, 28 July 2022 — Sustainable Pulse
Glyphosate & Roundup: Poison In Our Daily Bread – Fork the System Podcast
It’s not surprising that glyphosate, the so-called active ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, is found in foods made with glyphosate-tolerant GMO crops like corn, soy and canola. But why is glyphosate herbicide showing up in non-GMO and organic foods too? In the first episode of Fork the System, GMO/Toxin Free USA staffer Nomi Carmona hosts […]
The Future of Food? Genetic Engineering, Value Capture and Dependency
Wednesday, 20 July 2022 — CounterCurrents
The following is an abridged version of the second chapter of the author’s short (free-to-read) e-book Food, Dispossession and Dependency (2022)
GM crops are required to feed the world is a well-worn industry slogan trotted out at every available opportunity. Just like the claim of GM crops being a tremendous success, this too is based on a myth.
There is no global shortage of food. Even under any plausible future population scenario, there will be no shortage as evidenced by scientist Dr Jonathan Latham in his paper “The Myth of a Food Crisis” (2020).
UN report names the world’s most polluted places
Sunday, 13 March, 2022 — — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
‘Sacrifice Zones’
Pollution kills more people than all wars, murders and other forms of violence combined
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. One of the most polluted places on earth.
(Photo: Garth Lenz, Ecojustice)
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment has identified the most polluted places on earth. In his annual report to the UN Human Rights Council, David Boyd describes these places as Sacrifice Zones, a term originally used for areas made uninhabitable by nuclear weapons tests.
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The New Dark Age 