Food – Red Green Labour

The European eel – a critically endangered species on the menu of top European restaurants

Alan Thornett (pictured with a trophy eel in 1949) writes: The most disastrous consequence, of today’s environmental crisis, is the…

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A precious resource: how Israel uses water to control the West Bank

From The Guardian In occupied West Bank villages, Israeli-owned farms are flourishing, while Palestinians often do not have enough water…

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Getting real: what would serious climate action look like?

From Scientists for Global Responsibility Prof Kevin Anderson, Manchester University, summarises the action necessary if governments and societies were really…

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Saving Ireland’s ‘coral reef’

A major project is underway to preserve and renew boglands in Ireland. This article from the Irish Times is very…

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The GMO lobby is misleading UK Parliamentarians on gene editing

From GMWatch. Richard Kuper has extracted for Red-Green Labour the main points of this highly detailed article, the full text…

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Food corporations paid shareholders $53.5bn while millions went hungry

From Open Democracy OPINION: Without food sovereignty, private businesses will continue profiteering at the expense of the plane Davi Martins…

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Endangered foods: why our diet is narrower than ever

A worrying article from The Guardian… Endangered foods: why our diet is narrower than ever – and the UK urgently…

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Be warned: the next deadly pandemic is not inevitable, but all the elements are in place

From George Monbiot, writing in the Guardian. Bird flu is a mass killer, and mink farms are perfect for infection…

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Britain uses Brexit freedoms to continue use of bee-killing neonicotinoids

From the Guardian Environmentalists say the use of the toxic pesticide is extremely harmful to bees and other insects, at…

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Genetic Technology Bill – What Just Happened?

Via Beyond G-M Genetic Technology Bill – What Just Happened? The government’s Genetic Technology Bill went through its Report…