Agribusiness: 50/75 of 80
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Biofuels Report: Introduction
Pat Thomas
1st March, 2007
In his final State of the Union address, George Bush announced his support for the adoption of biofuels on a massive scale. But is the plan such a good idea? By Pat Thomas more...
Kendall fires shot across supermarkets' bows
News
27th February, 2007
The President of the National Farmers Union (NFU) Peter Kendall told supermarkets yesterday that their green "rhetoric" would need to become "a reality". more...
Sense about Science?
Zac Goldsmith
18th January, 2007
When a group calling itself Sense About Science launched its 'Science for celebrities' pamphlet in the national media last month, it was supposed to look like the long-overdue backlash of a normally passive science community to years of misinformation from ill-informed celebrities. more...Jack and the Beanstalk
Paul Kingsnorth
21st December, 2006
A seasonally-adjusted contemporary Pantomime, by Paul Kingsnorth more...
The new world of flying winemakers
Monty Waldin
1st December, 2006
Antipodean winemakers are still breathing fresh air into the stuffy Old World of wine. Monty Waldin reports 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...
BLT Sandwich: The Big Lifestyle Trade Off
Jon Hughes & Pat Thomas
22nd September, 2006
Is it worse than Mc Donalds? The BLT sandwich is an icon, the ultimate symbol of convenience culture. Tesco alone sells 5 million a year. This is what the £1.80 you pay for your BLT buys... more...
GM Potatoes – Facts and Fictions
Andy Rees
22nd September, 2006
In August 2006, German chemicals company BASF applied to start GM potato field trialsin Cambridge and Derbyshire as early as next spring. The GM industry is making many
claims about this product, but are these based on the truth? Andy Rees investigates more...
England Vanishing
22nd September, 2006
How do we define ourselves in time and space? A new book England In Particular suggests it is the commonplace, the local and the distinctive that tells us where we are more...
Special Report Supermarkets: Chicken
Felicity Lawrence
1st September, 2004
Wander down the meat aisle of any supermarket and you will find mountains of chicken being sold at unbelievably cheap prices. The real reasons for this cannot be found on the label. more...
Muck and magic
Robin Maynard
1st September, 2004
The mainstream farming media dismiss biodynamics as a fad affordable only by the wealthy – so why are big arable farmers sowing seeds under full moons? more...Imagine…food without pesticides …seeds without patents …a future without Monsanto
John Hepburn
1st September, 2004
Monsanto’s global website says: ‘Imagine innovative agriculture that creates "incredible" things today.’ Actually, I think most of us are more interested in ‘credible’ things when it comes to agriculture. Like food that people can trust is safe. And crops that meet the needs of the farmers that grow them. The Monsanto slogan used to be ‘food, health, hope’. As if this wasn’t absurd enough, it has now been changed to ‘Imagine™’. John Lennon must be turning in his grave. more...
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Percy Schmeiser: the man that took on Monsanto
Edward Goldsmith.
1st May, 2004
For 40 years Percy Schmeiser grew oilseed rape on his farm in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Usually, he would sow each year’s crop with seeds saved from the previous harvest. In 1998 Monsanto took Schmeiser to court. more...
Smithfield Foods: the truth behind its pigs and factories
Robert Kennedy Jr
1st December, 2003
The Ecologist goes inside the workings of Smithfield to reveal the true horrors of its pig production business more...
Say It Without Flowers
Venetia Hargreaves-Allen
1st October, 2003
Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’ more...
The Water Hyacinth
Tom Hargreaves
1st October, 2003
This beautiful but deadly plant proliferates in lakes across Africa – choking everything in its path. Why, asks Tom Hargreaves, have all attempts to manage it failed? more...
Farmers Markets
Dan Box
1st June, 2003
In 1996 there were no farmers’ markets anywhere in the UK. Today they outnumber Asda stores. Dan Box celebrates their comeback and why we should all be using them. more...
Silent Earth
Andrew Kimbell
1st June, 2003
Myth number 7: Industrial agriculture benefits the environment and wildlife more...Seeds of Hope
Jake Bowers
1st May, 2003
Considering its estimated 25,000-plus uses – for producing food, fuel, medicine, paper, plastics and even dynamite – the most wasteful thing you could probably do with hemp is smoke it. Jake Bowers describes hemp’s potential to transform agriculture and the plant’s demonisation by huge and competing industrial interests more...
Slow Food
The Ecologist
1st April, 2003
Next time you find yourself ‘grabbing a bite to eat’… STOP.Fast food blights our lives and the environment. It’s time to slow down. more...
Bigger But Not Better
Andrew Kimbrell
1st April, 2003
Myth Number 5: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IS EFFICIENT 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...
Flawed Research
The Ecologist
1st February, 2003
Last month the Food Standards Agency declared that eating organic chickens increases risk of campylobacter poisoning. So what? 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...
Blood is Thicker...
Ros Coward
1st February, 2003
Ros Coward reports from Murcia in southern Spain, the driest place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water supplies and causing a growing environmental crisis. more...Members
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