Environment
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GM Watch Daily Digest – 17 September 2024
Tuesday, 17 September 2024 — GM Watch Successful detection methods for new genomic techniques It’s becoming increasingly clear that detection and identification of new GMO (new genomic techniques, NGT) plants will be possible, as long as such research continues to be supported. In a study commissioned by the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest, Monday, 16 September 2024
Monday, 16 September 2024 — GM Watch Impossible Burger maker drives rival out of business with “incredibly bitter” lawsuit In his 2022 book Regenesis and his subsequent campaigning with WePlanet, Guardian-columnist George Monbiot has championed “precision fermentation” (the PR term for synthetic biology – synbio – or extreme genetic engineering) as the main future generator Continue reading
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We refuse to give up…
Thousands of emails have been sent and both the Co-op and Waitrose have now removed these products from their shelves. We know that a few of the other supermarkets are on the verge of doing the same, but we need to push them over the finish line. Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism
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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Degrowth and the end of capitalism
Book review: A powerful polemic against capitalism’s planetary destruction, and an engaging look at the degrowth movement Continue reading
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Uneven Earth’s November readings
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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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Pesticide Action Network News – November 2022
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. Continue reading
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‘Capital’s attack on nature endangers humanity’
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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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Books: Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
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.”… Continue reading
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Uneven Earth’s Monthly Readings August 2022
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… Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 