The dreams of the early organic pioneers have been subsumed into a rush for global supply chains, strict regulations and fast-selling brands
… Organic farming has sold out and lost its way Julian … Rose | 17th March 2010 Comment Food And Farming Green Living Organics organicshop.jpg … Hills of South Oxfordshire, on a mixed farming model, utilising a wide number of …
Poland is the front line for Europe's small scale family farming, writes Julian Rose, under assault from the EU regulations, corporate agribusiness, and a hostile government. A popular campaign is fighting back from its base deep in the Polish countryside, a small organic farm that's developing new green technologies to enhance the sustainability of small farms everywhere.
… Building the Ark - small scale farming in Poland for a green future Julian … | 20th June 2015 Ethical Living Poland Food Farming Renewables Education obraz-062.jpg … front line for Europe's small scale family farming, writes Julian Rose, under assault …
Organic certification used to be carried out by real farmers in wellies, who knew all the tricks and could spot dodgy practice on the land at 100 paces, writes Julian Rose. Today's certifiers arrive in patent leather shoes and get no further than the office - and this is meant to be an improvement?
… Rose | 17th May 2014 Ethical Living Food Farming Organic Regulation UK … the way. These were early days for organic farming practices and there were not many of … modern inspectors know anything about organic farming? Back at the farmhouse an hour or so …
So just how serious is the impact of industrial farming? Worse than you could ever imagine, writes organic farmer Julian Rose in this review of 'Farmageddon - the Real Price of Cheap Food', which lifts the lid on the industry's human and ecological devastation, and the systematic cruelty inflicted on the animals that feed us.
… Julian Rose | 5th February 2015 Reviews Food Farming Fishing Corporations … just how serious is the impact of industrial farming? Worse than you could ever imagine, … that drove me to develop a mixed organic farming system back in the mid 1970's, was to …
At the heart of Poland's capital, Warsaw, farmers have founded a flourishing encampment known as the 'Green City', writes Julian Rose. It's a focus of protest against the sell-off of their land to agribusiness, the arrival of GMO crops, and the imposition of a failed 'Western' model of farming that's creating huge corporate profits while debasing food and bankrupting small farmers.
… Julian Rose | 19th March 2015 News Poland Farming Food Corporations Politics Protest GMOs Land Grabs occupy-farming-adam_payne-cut.jpg At the heart of … the imposition of a failed 'Western' model of farming that's creating huge corporate profits …
Since Poland's new government was elected last October it has moved to protect the country's 1.3 million small farmers, writes Julian Rose. First it freed those arrested for protesting corporate land grabs, now it is seeking to lighten oppressive hygiene regulations, and next it may support a new Food Act that would ban GMOs, and legislate for national food security and food sovereignty.
… ICPPC | 25th January 2016 News Poland Food Farming The Land Land Grabs Law … that are critical to the survival of family farming traditions in Poland. Writing the new … the EU's intention to eradicate the peasant farming tradition in Poland - and no doubt …
Industrial agriculture and industrial food processing have combined to produce something extraordinary, writes Julian Rose: 'KRISS the unrecognisable croissant'. Just don't make the mistake of confusing it with food. Devoid of nutrition, laced with hydrogenated oil and a long list of artificial ingredients, if you care about your own health and that of our planet - give KRISS a miss!
… Julian Rose | 13th October 2015 Comment Food Farming Corporations kriss-croissant-cut.jpg … often associated with time honoured family farming traditions, ensure that foods are … are not interested in small scale farming operations. They are interested in …
Farmers in northern Poland are demanding the right to sell the food they produce in local shops, fighting oppressive sanitary regulations, picketing the Land Agency for access to prime farmland, and resisting GMOs.
… Jadwiga Lopata | 16th February 2014 News Food Farming Poland EU polish-farmers.png Farmers … farmers' ability to expand their family farming enterprises and secure the long-term … deliberately - favour large, monocultural farming operations while ignoring the needs of …
In our modern world of supermarkets and on-demand delivery, its easy to forget about the few remaining 'real farmers' who grow healthy, wholesome food, writes Julian Rose. But it won't be long before we give them the appreciation they deserve ...
… Julian Rose | 13th June 2014 Comment Food Farming Health Poland Romania Consumerism …
A key element of the TTIP is the deregulation genetically modified seeds and plants for cultivating in European soils, writes Julian Rose. This alone is reason enough for us to reject it - but it's only the beginning of a huge power grab that would make our governments more accountable to corporations, than to people.
… 17th December 2014 Activism GMOs USA EU Food Farming Trade Regulation stopttip-cut.jpg A … all of us, who care about real food and real farming, will be needed to stop one of the … myself, I'm concentrating on the food and farming implications. But it is very important …
Already 56,000 people have pledged to support a global 'internet seed swap' initiative promoted by Avaaz, writes Julian Rose. Trouble is, the plans are deeply flawed, and have been developed without consultation with major seed saving groups worldwide.
… Julian Rose | 16th July 2014 Comment Food Farming Biodiversity GMOs Corporations … of what actually goes on in the food and farming sector and thus become a vector of … Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, international activist and author. He …
How to dissent peacefully from the corruption, waste and destruction of the world? By a mindful disengagement from evil, writes Julian Rose: from fossil fuel energy to propagandist media, from sweatshop clothing to the predatory financial system. Some of the steps we can take are easy, others very difficult - but what ultimately matters is the direction of travel.
… food industry's vandalisation of food and farming around the world. So to get seriously … alternative life styles and small scale farming operations are springing up all over … me, due to my having a commitment to a farming and forestry business. So then we need …