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UK could cut Amazon soya imports with home-grown peas and beans
Ecologist
21st July, 2010
A solution to the livestock sector's reliance on soya animal feed, which is driving deforestation in Argentina and Brazil, could be found by incentivising home-grown alternatives more...
Put to the test: a buyer's guide to non-dairy products
Laura Sevier
17th March, 2010
Whether for health, ethical or environmental reasons, a low-dairy or dairy-free diet is becoming more mainstream. Here's how to have your (cheese)cake and eat it too... more...
CASE STUDY: fighting food multinationals in South America
Polly Cook
19th June, 2009
In the Brazilian town of Santarem, one brave priest is the only thing standing between multi-national grain trader Cargill and the rest of the Amazon more...
How the Government could easily fix our food chain
Kirtana Chandrasekaran
13th October, 2009
Our growing demand for cheap feed to produce cheap meat is exacting a terrible human and environmental price. But the solutions are clear, and are within our reach more...
Killing fields: the true cost of Europe's cheap meat
Andrew Wasley
13th October, 2009
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence more...
WWF and Monsanto - is GM soy now okay?
Stephanie Roth
19th June, 2009
Environmental group WWF has faced a barrage of protest for sitting at the table with the likes of Monsanto and Cargill. Has it gone a step too far to appease the multinationals? more...
Cattle ranching biggest driver of Amazon deforestation
Ecologist
27th May, 2009
Cattle ranchers bigger culprits in Amazon deforestation than soy farmers, new NGO study shows more...
Behind the label: Soya
Pat Thomas
6th January, 2009
Marketed as a superfood with almost magical properties, soya protein is found in almost everything we eat. It’s a shame its health claims aren’t worth a bean, says Pat Thomas more...
Cargill's Amazon soy plant forced to close
News
26th March, 2007
Cargill, the international agribusiness giant, has been forced to closed a soy-bean export terminal in the Amazon. more...
Humanity's worst invention: Agriculture
Clive Dennis
22nd September, 2006
By radically changing the way we acquire our food, the development of agriculture has condemned us to live worse than ever before. Not only that, agriculture has led to the first significant instances of large-scale war, inequality, poverty, crime, famine and human induced climate change and mass extinction.By Clive W. Dennis (winner of the Ecologist/Coady International Institute 2006 Essay Competition) more...
Dead Babies
Jeffrey Smith
1st December, 2005
A simple experiment by a Russian scientist to see if eating GM soya influenced the offspring of mice, could threaten the multi-billion dollar GM industry. more...
A stake through the heart of the world
Peter Bunyard
1st July, 2005
Scientists mapping the effects of deforestation in the Amazon are increasingly concerned that we are reaching a tipping point – when the forest will start to die back of its own accord and rain, currently generated by the Amazon forests, will stop falling, not just in neighbouring countries but as far afield as the United States and South Africa.more...
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Some GM questions answered
The Ecologist
1st July, 2003
Why are GM crops being grown, how are plants genetically modified, where is it being cultivated, who’s in control and what is being researched and developed? more...
Cargill: size is everything
Brewster Kneen
1st April, 2003
If you want to understand why globalisation is so destructive, you need look no further than the invisible food giant Cargill. By Brewster Kneen. more...
Soya Republic
Ben Backwell
1st February, 2003
As the people of Argentina are driven by economic collapse to the point of starvation, a new solution is being imposed upon them. Ben Backwell reports on a country being force fed genetically modified soya designed not for humans, but for cattlemore...
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