In the second part of our adaptation of Fatal Harvest’s iconoclastic analysis of agribusiness propaganda, The Ecologist reveals the real cost of industrial food.
… | 1st November 2002 News Supermarket Health Industrial Food Chemicals F Processed Foods … The Ecologist reveals the real cost of industrial food. --Myth number 2: Industrial food is cheap-- Politicians, …
The oil and gas industry has admitted that its canals and drilling rigs have destroyed 1,900 square miles of coastal wetlands on the US Gulf Coast, but a Federal Judge with deep industry ties has ruled that 97 companies off have no liability for the $50 billion damage.
Oil lawyer turned judge rules: industry not liable for $50bn Gulf Coast damage Farron Cousins DeSmogBlog | 19th February 2015 News Oil Oceans Fossil Fuels Law gulf-oil-depot-cut.jpg The oil and …
As deadly H5Nx bird flu strains diversify in giant, fast-rotation flocks and and adapt to poultry that tens of thousands of human handlers care for and process every day, the emergence of a deadly human-specific flu becomes ever more likely, writes Robert G. Wallace. The industry can no longer blame wild birds for the problems it is creating - and must urgently reform its own practices.
… Deadly bird flu strains created by industrial poultry farms Robert G. Wallace | … and therefore in the influenza to which industrial poultry here in Minnesota are now … explain the damage the outbreak has caused to industrial turkey and chicken egg layers here …
The Reuters news organisation has just sullied its reputation with a disgraceful attack on the WHO's specialist body on cancer, the IARC, writes Claire Robinson. Resorting to smear, innuendo and anonymous critics, it relies heavily on discredited industry sources including tobacco defenders in its attempt to undermine IARC's view that glyphosate probably causes cancer.
… commentator who loses no opportunity to hype industrialized agriculture and attack …
Emmanuelle Schick Garcia is the director of 'The Idiot Cycle', a new film exposing the chemical industry and how it benefits from the contamination it is causing
Emmanuelle Garcia : Chemical companies want the public to feel helpless and not protest Tom Levitt | 6th September 2010 Comment Toxins Health Checmicals Cancer Gm idiotcycle.jpg The Idiot Cycle …
The pesticide industry and regulators have repeatedly misled the public with claims that glyphosate is safe, says Claire Robinson. As a result, Monsanto's Roundup is used by gardeners and local authorities, in school grounds, and in farmers’ fields
The inside story on Monsanto and the glyphosate birth defect data Claire Robinson | 13th June 2011 Comment Monsanto Glyphosate Pesticides Herbicides Health Comment malformaciones1.jpg The pesticide …
With the sixth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster falling tomorrow, nuclear lobbyists are arguing over solutions to the existential crisis facing nuclear power, writes Jim Green. Some favour a multinational consolidation of large conventional reactor designs, while others back technological innovation and 'small modular reactors'. But in truth, both approaches are doomed to failure.
Terminal decline? Fukushima anniversary marks nuclear industry's deepening crisis Jim Green Nuclear Monitor | 10th March 2017 News Nuclear Energy Technology Finance Health fuk-mission-cut.jpg With …
Why is the dairy industry joining in the legal action against Vermont's GMO labeling law? Could it be because a fifth of US 'cheese' can be vegetable oil and starch from GMO crops, asks Alexis Baden-Mayer - and even more of a 'frozen dairy snack' or 'processed cheese food'?
Why does the dairy industry oppose GMO labels? Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association | 12th February 2015 Comment Food Farming USA GMOs Health triple-cheese-pizza.jpg Why is the dairy …
A six-month investigation finds that the revolving door between government and the chemical industry has led the EPA to rely on easily manipulated toxicology research carried out entirely on computers - and this 'in silico' science often trumps both biology and epidemiology when it comes to regulatory action, or lack of it. The result? Toxic substances remain in everyday products.
… pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other industrial products. By the 1990s, the US … controls" and place "constraints on important industrial processes." In other words, PBPK …
Food industry spent €1 billion euros lobbying against proposals to help consumers make 'healthy meal' choices with a system of red, green and amber labels on the front of food packaging
… across the US with its stark portrayal of industrial agriculture. And that's just the …
What do government and industry do when something is toxic but massively profitable? Most of the time, says Devra Davis, they just invest in better class of PR…
… risks of lung cancer had been demonstrated in industrial nations by charting the health of …
Coal is Europe's biggest source of mercury and sulphur pollution, writes Kyla Mandel, killing tens of thousands of people a year. So how come more than half the members appointed by EU governments to set air pollution standards for coal plants are industry representatives?
… regulation The draft proposal shows that EU industrial air pollution limits currently … emissions in Europe and one of the largest industrial sources of emissions of nitrogen …
I am pro-vaccine, writes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I had all of my six children vaccinated. I believe that vaccines save millions of lives. So let me explain why I edited the book 'Thimerosal: Let The Science Speak', which exposes the dangerous and avoidable use of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal in vaccines given to millions of children and pregnant women here and around the world.
Vaccines, mercury and thimerosal: let the science speak! Robert F. Kennedy Jr | 7th February 2017 News Health Toxics Corporations Regulation Politics USA vaccines-cut.jpg I am pro-vaccine, writes …
Ever since its creation in 1970 the US-EPA has been a failing organization, writes Carol Van Strum in her review of 'Poison Spring' - serving the corporations it was there to regulate, falsifying data, suppressing the truth about pesticide toxicity, and crushing whistleblowers.
… Adrian Gross, EPA had discovered in 1976 that Industrial BioTest Laboratories [IBT], which … how to raise crops and livestock without industrial poisons" , Vallianatos points out. …
Discovery of the deadly salmon virus Infectious Salmon Anaemia in Canada is just latest likely example of disease spreading to wild fish stocks from the world's mega fish farms
Warning as infectious salmon disease spreads from Europe's fish farms to Canada Anna Taylor | 15th December 2011 News Salmon Fish Food And Farming Disease Health Factory Farming salmon.jpg A European …
Worried by an eco backlash, the bottled water industry is waging a PR battle to turn the public back onto plastic bottled water
Bottled water industry wages PR battle against tap water movement Eifion Rees | 4th April 2012 News Bottle Water Plastic Tap Nestle News Focus Health Waste And Recycling water.jpg More than 2bn …
Reeling from California's decision to ban glyphosate, fearful of 're-evaluation' by EU and US regulators, and facing ruinous cancer claims in federal courts, the US chemical industry are fighting back, writes Carey Gillam. Their key argument: don't trust independent doctors and scientists - trust us! And as they just told a California court, profit must come before people.
On trial: Monsanto's 'alternative facts' about glyphosate Carey Gillam USRTK | 1st February 2017 News Pesticides Corporations Health Law USA Un Science roundup-cut.jpg Reeling from California's …
The UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome has today launched a new report examining the impact of chemical intensive, industrial food system on human health. GEORGINA DOWNS responds.
… examining the impact of chemical intensive, industrial food system on human health. … on the damage to human health from existing industrial and chemical-intensive conventional … are severe, widespread, and closely linked to industrial food and farming practices," …
The chemical industry and the European Food Safety Authority are refusing to disclose key scientific evidence about glyphosate's risks, citing 'trade secrets' protection, writes Corporate Europe Observatory. They must be compelled to publish the 'mysterious three' scientific studies EFSA used to assess glyphosate as 'unlikely' to cause cancer to humans - contradicting the IARC's view.
… property which if released would harm their industrial and commercial interests as well as … which it represents, which rely heavily on industrial secrets to protect their …
Over a year after violent conflict began in East Ukraine, indications are emerging of its severe environmental impacts in the highly industrialised Donbas region, and the grave health risks to civilians that will endure long into the future. The area will need international assistance both to reduce the hazards, and to 'green' the region's often polluting industries.
… severe environmental impacts in the highly industrialised Donbas region, and the grave … and lengthy analysis. Warfare in highly industrialised areas has the potential to … to the outbreak of the war, more than 5,300 industrial enterprises were operating in the …
Having survived cancer, biologist Sandra Steingraber wrote a book to expose its link to the environment. As the film version premieres in Europe, she tells the Ecologist why we must all take a stand on air, food and water pollution
… use some toxic pesticides; the story of the industrial chemicals that leaked into the …
Thanks to Andy Hall's investigations of abuses of migrant workers in Thailand's fish and pineapple industries, a criminal trial begins today in Bangkok - his own. He faces eight years in prison and a $10 million fine for exposing their crimes in a devastating report that has inspired international action against the companies involved.
On trial today - Thailand's food workers' rights Andy Hall | 2nd September 2014 News Food Thailamd Law Corporations andy-hall-team.jpg Thanks to Andy Hall's investigations of abuses of migrant …