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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…
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8 billion people – the defining issue of the 21st century
In this article from his Ecosocialist Discussion website, Alan Thornett tackles the controversial question of population and argues that the…
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‘How are we going to live?’ Families dispossessed of their land to make way for Total’s Congo offsetting project
From Unearthed Pulchérie Amboula’s life has revolved around the land she farms on the Batéké plateaux, a vast, undulating savannah…
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A Welsh food and farming revolution
From Wicked Leeks Tucked down a backstreet in central Cardiff, staff at Bacareto are serving delicious house wine alongside fresh,…