Apparent 'victories' in the fight against toxic chemicals - like the EU's failure to re-approve glyphosate yesterday - are illusory, writes Jonathan Latham. The real problem is not one of specific 'bad actors', but the entire system that allows new, likely to be toxic compounds to pollute the environment in near-total ignorance of their impacts. It's time to take our campaigning to a whole new level.
… and sperm cell defects (humans), prostate cancer (humans), risk of breast cancer (human and rats), blood pressure rises … development; it causes obesity and probably cancer; it causes erectile dysfunction. Many …
University of California president Janet Napolitano halts use of glyphosate on all ten of its campuses.
… Monsanto's glyphosate-based herbicides cause cancer." She met with a UC Regent, who became … prevent even one groundskeeper from getting cancer and going through what Lee is going to, …
A once quiet voice, hard to distinguish against the grinding machine of intensive food production is now shouting above the noise. LAURA BRIGGS reports on the growing interest in grass as a feeding option
… Alzheimer's, diabetes, depression and some cancers. The Grass-Fed Nation movement asserts … Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) known for its cancer-fighting properties." Currently you'd …
The Soil Association is calling on bread producers and supermarkets to stop making and selling bread products that contain traces of Glyphosate. LAURA BRIGGS reports.
… by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to be "probably carcinogenic to …
It seems we've been talking about bringing green areas to urban spaces for years, but at this year's Chelsea Flower Show (which runs until 27th May) it's clear this theme remains a top priority writes LAURA BRIGGS who pays a visit to the world's best known flower show
… Zone features the power of plants and their cancer-busting properties, the psychological …
At what point are technologies so complex, uncertain, or unmanageable as to be beyond regulation? The question is key to human and ecological health, writes Jonatham Latham. But instead of learning from successful approaches, such as aviation safety, we are throwing the lessons away when faced with truly complex problems - like chemicals, GMOs, and now 'gene drives'.
… the male population would develop prostate cancer, infertility on the islands is rising, …
Are GMOs safe? Up to a point, writes Jonathan Latham - provided you're not eating them. That's certainly not proven to be safe, indeed the hazards are numerous: protein encoding viral DNA fragments, herbicide metabolites, biotoxins whose operation is not understood, poorly conducted experiments ... and those are just the ones we know about.
… in vitro cell- killing action on human cancer cells'. J. Appl. Microbiol. 86: …