Blaming 'lack of time', Syngenta withdraws its emergency application to use a seed treatment blamed for killing bees. Friends of the Earth and 38 Degrees claim victory - but Syngenta warns: we'll be back!
… a bit easier this evening" , said Head of Campaigns Andrew Pendleton. "We're delighted …
After an apparent cave-in to Europe's pesticide industry, the European Food Safety Authority's latest guidance on pesticides conflicts with European law, writes Georgina Downs - by ignoring the real-life agrochemical exposure of rural residents. Commission President Juncker must step in and demand the withdrawal of this disgraceful document.
Negligent and unlawful: EFSA's latest guidance on pesticide use and exposure Georgina Downs | 4th December 2014 News Food Farming EU Corporations Law Regulation Toxics windy-day-spray-cut.jpg …
Ample peer-reviewed science says that the number one threat to condor survival is lead poisoning from eating bullets and pellets in carcasses, reports Dawn Starin. But the powerful NRA is fighting hard against bans on lead ammunition.
Eat lead! Condor survival versus National Rifle Association Dawn Starin | 7th July 2014 News Natural World Birds Toxics Hunting USA Mexico condors-grand-canyon-derek-bruff-cut.jpg Ample peer-reviewed …
Tyrone Hayes has fought a 15-year battle with Syngenta following his discovery that its herbicide Atrazine scrambles sex in frogs, writes F William Engdahl. Now he wants to know - is Atrazine the cause of the US's 2-fold reproductive cancer excess among Blacks and Hispanics?
Atrazine: Syngenta's herbicide doesn't just poison frogs - it could give you cancer F William Engdahl | 2nd June 2014 News Health Farming Toxics Corporations Regulation USA …
The National Rifle Association has demanded that The Ecologist retract important elements of a story we ran about the threat to condors from ingesting spent lead ammunition, and the NRA's opposition to a lead ban. We publish our response.
Hunting for Truth - we respond to the NRA's retraction demand The Ecologist | 11th July 2014 Comment Toxics USA Law Hunting Birds wildfowl-hunting-ca-diane-cut.jpg The National Rifle Association has …
The Government's 'National Pollinator Strategy' has a fatal flaw, writes Georgina Downs - it contains no meaningful measures to address farmers' spraying of highly toxic pesticides, often in mixtures that can further increase the harm they cause. And with 80% of the UK's pesticides used in agriculture, that's setting the 'strategy' up to fail.
Agricultural pesticides - the gaping hole in the UK's 'Pollinator Strategy' Georgina Downs | 6th November 2014 Comment UK Farming Toxics Politics Health windy-day-spray-cut.jpg Spaying …
As Cameron 'cuts the green crap' Paul Mobbs remembers how the decisions of a Conservative government 20 years ago to go easy on the owners of contaminated land and old waste dumps have led to present day blight, ill-health and death. Now brow-beaten regulators and politicians in hock to party funders are doing it all over again.
Death by landfill - cutting 'green tape' costs lives Paul Mobbs | 22nd December 2014 News Waste Toxics Politics Regulation UK chemical-site-w-yorks-cut.jpg As Cameron 'cuts the green crap' Paul …
A huge turnout was recorded for the 2014 March Against Monsanto, with protests in over 400 cities in 52 countries and 47 US states. Dr Mae Wan Ho says this worldwide movement will keep on growing, until Monsanto and its toxic products are defeated.
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From the day that Danish pig farmer Ib Borup Pederson switched away from GM soy, his animals became healthier and more productive. Birth deformities reduced, sows became more fertile, medicine costs fell, and profits went up. The changes were linked to the reduction in the levels of the herbicide glyphosate in their feed.
Changing to non-GMO soy transformed the health of my pigs Ib Borup Pederson | 18th September 2014 News Health Toxics Food Farming Denmark China deformed-pig.jpg Figure 2: Graph showing how more …
Farming today is well on the way to becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the agro-chemical-biotech industry, writes Colin Tudge. Defra and the European Commission are all too keen to make it so, reflecting the interests of an agro-oligarchy obsessed with profits and growth at all costs. But there is an alternative. Join the 'real farming' agrarian renaissance ...
Farming for profit? Or for people, nature, health, wellbeing and human survival? Colin Tudge | 19th November 2014 Activism UK Farming Natural World Toxics Economics brussells-sprouts-cut.jpg Farming …
Extensive, long running evidence for the cancer-causing effects of glyphosate, and other toxic impacts, have been ignored by regulators. Indeed as the evidence has built up, permitted levels in food have been hugely increased, writes Dr Mae Wan Ho.
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