Food aid charities argue supermarket food waste could help prevent hunger in vulnerable people. Yet supermarkets' anaerobic digestion plans may eclipse food redistribution says Matilda Lee
… Supermarket food waste to power renewable energy instead of tackling food poverty Matilda Lee | 23rd December 2011 News Food And Farming Politics And Economics Health …
Naomi Salmon argues that human rights law can - and should - have a crucial role in the fight to green our food systems ...
… Putting people at the heart of the sustainable food debate Dr Naomi Salmon | 8th November 2013 Comment Food And Farming Politics Law foodrights.jpg Could human rights law be used …
Campaigners for the labeling of GMOs in food are winning their battle against corporate America, writes Ralph Nader. No wonder the corporations are fighting back with lawsuits and scare stories ... they're on the back foot, and they know it.
… Nader | 30th June 2014 Activism USA GMOs Food Corporations Society Law … Campaigners for the labeling of GMOs in food are winning their battle against … latest initiatives of our nation's growing food safety movement. Across the country, …
Financial speculation in key commodities, like wheat and maize, is being linked to recent volatile food prices but attempts to regulate are being delayed by lobbying from the banking sector. Tom Levitt reports
… Banks should end 'secretive' trade in food commodities Tom Levitt | 13th September 2011 News Food Speculation Food And Farming Banking Politics And …
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates
… Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis Tom Levitt | 13th September 2011 News Food Speculation Food And Farming Banks Trading Politics And …
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates
… Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis Tom Levitt | 13th September 2011 News Food Speculation Food And Farming Banks Trading Politics And …
The financial industry has been quick to dismiss its role in pushing up food prices but with the evidence growing daily the Ecologist cuts through the jargon to explain the reality of food speculation
… A guide to food speculation: how to argue with a banker … The Ecologist | 9th June 2011 News Banking Food And Farming Speculation Finance Politics And Economics Banks foodspec.jpg Recent food price volatility has …
In February a report by George W Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) suggested that fast food workers might in the future be classified as manufacturing workers. A CEA report asked: ‘When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a “service”, or is it combining inputs to “manufacture’ a product?’
… Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser | 1st April 2004 News Fast Food McDonalds Advertisements Pollution McDonalds Wages Skilled Labour Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser Fast FoodFood And …
In a major investigation and film, the Ecologist takes a look at how volatile financial speculation on food commodities is causing hunger and poverty in Mexico - and around the world
… Food speculation 'boom' linked to volatile food prices The Ecologist | 13th September 2011 Comment Food Speculation Banking Finance Politics And …
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.
… Polish government backs small farmers' and food sovereignty Julian Rose ICPPC | 25th January 2016 News Poland Food Farming The Land Land Grabs Law … regulations, and next it may support a new Food Act that would ban GMOs, and legislate …
What started out as a conventional UN bureaucracy has become the subject of wild speculation and fear - just what is the UN's Codex Alimentarius, and what does it mean for our food and health?
… Will the UN's Codex Alimentarius make our food less nutritious? Chris Milton | 10th August 2010 News Food And Farming Health Codex Alimentarius Food Rules Un Politics And Economics …
It was a bad year for the biotech barons. At a conference in January 1999, the consulting firm Arthur Andersen revealed Monsanto executives’ vision of an ideal future – a world in which natural seeds were virtually all extinct and where commercial seeds were genetically modified (GM) and patented.
… The battle to keep GM food off your plate Jeffrey Smith | 1st … Gm Products Campaigns Gm Products UK US Food And Farming Politics And Economics … safety assessment protocol for testing GM foods. In the course of his studies under the …
High-street customers could be subsidising the role of Barclays Capital in driving up global food prices and leaving millions facing hunger and malnutrition, says campaign group. Tom Levitt reports
… Barclays 'making up to £340 million' on food price speculation Tom Levitt | 31st March 2011 News Food And Farming Barclays Food Speculation Politics And Economics …
This Tuesday voters in Oregon and Colorado will have the chance to strike a decisive blow for consumers' right to know by forcing the labeling of GMO ingredients. Big Food is spending big to mislead and confuse voters, writes Ronnie Cummins - but the outcome is looking too close to call.
… forcing the labeling of GMO ingredients. Big Food is spending big to mislead and confuse … and highly publicized state mandatory GMO food labeling ballot initiatives: Measure 92 … Bayer), backed by the world's largest junk food manufactures (Coca Cola, Pepsi, Kraft, …
It's time we stopped listening to the banking sector and started pressuring MPs and MEPs to regulate food speculation, argues Deborah Doane
… Deborah Doane | 13th September 2011 Comment Food Speculation Politics And Economics Banking Food And Farming wdmdeborah.jpg Deborah Doane … started pressuring MPs and MEPs to regulate food speculation, argues Deborah Doane If a …
In the run up to the British general election, Pat Thomas says the various party manifestos are starved of sound policies on food security and sustainability
… of the main parties seem to have a clue about food Pat Thomas | 21st April 2010 Comment Food And Farming Election 2010 Politics And … manifestos are starved of sound policies on food security and sustainability Food is a …
Pro-GMO US senators have a dastardly plan to deny states the right to require GMO labeling, writes Steven M. Druker, by attaching their DARK Bill as a rider to the Appropriations Bill next week. Now is the the time to wake up senators to the Bill's true intent, and to the deceit, illegal behaviour and scientific falsification that has kept the dangers of GMO foods a well kept secret - so far.
… that has kept the dangers of GMO foods a well kept secret - so far. An ardent … the labeling of genetically engineered foods - made especially urgent by the fact … effect July 1st. Although proponents of these foods scored a major victory in July when they …
In the penultimate extract from Fatal Harvest’s demolition of agribusiness disinformation, The Ecologist assesses the claim that biotechnology will solve industrial agriculture’s ills.
… Kimbrell | 1st May 2003 News Agriculture Food Shortage Biotechnology Food Security Biotechnology Food And Farming Politics And Economics …
The 'Biotechnology Food Labeling Uniformity' bill has been introduced to the US Senate to require clear, simple labelling of GMOs nationwide - informing consumers while saving manufacturers from a confusing patchwork of state regulations. Could it defeat the dreaded DARK Act?
… law The Ecologist | 3rd March 2016 News GMOs Food Law Politics Regulation USA Corporations … dark-act-cut.jpg The 'Biotechnology Food Labeling Uniformity' bill has been … consumers can find GMO ingredient labeling on food packaging, while ensuring food producers …
Five international judges say Monsanto's activities have negatively affected individuals, communities and biodiversity, writes Claire Robinson. The Monsanto Tribunal's damning ruling denounces the company's harmful impacts on food sovereignty, agricultural production, access to nutrition, the natural environment, seed diversity, climate change, pollution and traditional cultural practices.
… isn't feeding the world - it's undermining food security Claire Robinson GMWatch | 24th April 2017 News Corporations Law Farming Food GMOs Health Seeds Pesticides … denounces the company's harmful impacts on food sovereignty, agricultural production, …
It’s last orders at the bar in a certain vegan pub in a certain British city, and my friend Daisy checks casually, ‘Do you need to get any food in? We could do with a bit of veg…’
… Ethical Living Bins Freeganism Supermarkets Food Waste Supermarkets Vegetarianism And Veganism Food And Farming Politics And Economics Green … checks casually, ‘Do you need to get any food in? We could do with a bit of veg…’ This …
The increasingly militant protests by dairy farmers against low prices forced on them by the corporate 'free market' represent serious and effective resistance against the 'free trade' agenda being forced on the world by neoliberal governments, writes David Miller. They are the first steps to building a new global food system that respects food, people, culture and environment.
… uprisings lead the way to a democratic world food system David Miller | 17th February 2016 News Protest Farming Food Trade EU Canada USA Labour Corporations … are the first steps to building a new global food system that respects food, people, …