Labels on meat, egg and dairy products are often the only clue we have into the lives of the animals they came from, writes Philip Lymbery. But they are often confusing or even misleading about the truth of cruel farming practices. Labelling needs to be clearer to allow ethical consumers to make the right choices.
No more keeping consumers in the dark over animal welfare! Philip Lymbery | 10th March 2016 Comment Animal Welfare Farming Consumerism UK EU Food intensively reared animals are typically kept in …
Abusive farming of animals in factory farms is one of the great cruelties of the modern age, writes Philip Lymbery. While some may justify it as necessary to 'feed the world', it is no such thing. The answer lies in supporting small scale traditional farmers, and respecting the livestock that are intrinsic to sustainable agriculture across the planet.
The future of our food depends on small farmers and well cared-for livestock Philip Lymbery CIWF | 19th October 2016 Comment Food Farming Animal Welfare Un farmyard-cut.jpg Abusive farming of animals …
Onshore wind power is effective, hugely popular, and the UK's cheapest form of new power generation, writes Max Wakefield, already competing against gas turbines in prime locations. So why did Cameron's Government ban it? And what will it take to get Chancellor Philip Hammond to reverse that decision next week?
Bring back onshore wind, UK's cheapest green power source! Max Wakefield | 18th November 2016 Comment Renewables Wind Politics UK pinwheels-cut.jpg Onshore wind power is effective, hugely popular, …
Next April the UK government proposes to increase taxes on self-consumed solar electricity installations on schools, offices, warehouses and factories by a whopping 6-8 times, write the STA and undersigned. This inexplicable move, which threatens a once thriving solar industry already on its knees, must be abandoned.
Chancellor - stop the solar tax hike! Solar Trade Association | 5th December 2016 Comment Solar Energy Renewables Politics UK Finance Education school-solar-cut.jpg Next April the UK government …
Resurgence magazine (now Resurgence & Ecologist) celebrates 50 years of independent publishing with a landmark event hosted by Worcester College, Oxford, 22-25 September 2016.
One Earth, One Humanity, One Future Resurgence 50th anniversary event | 4th May 2016 News Resurgence50 Events Oxford worcester_college2.jpg Resurgence magazine (now Resurgence & Ecologist) celebrates …
In becoming the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Bob Dylan is in esteemed company; many previous recipients have also been voices for social protest and change, all of whom have borne witness to their life and times writes HARRIET GRIFFEY
WITNESS: Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a-Changin' Harriet Griffey | 14th October 2016 Comment Music Environment Bob Dylan Nobel Prize Protest Acitvism bob dylan.jpg In becoming the 2016 Nobel Prize …
French energy giant EDF will today give the formal go-ahead for the Hinkley C nuclear power station in Somerset, writes Chris Goodall. But that's no reason for the UK to sign up to a disastrous deal that will cost us over £1 billion per year for 35 years - money that should be used to support the green technologies of the future.
Dump Hinkley! And invest in the UK's real energy future Chris Goodall | 28th July 2016 Comment Nuclear Energy Renewables Technology Finance Politics UK France Corporations stop-epr-cut.jpg French …
Never mind Cameron's mealy mouthed denials that he or his family benefit from tax havens, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. The real problem is systemic: Britain's entire political establishment has long been owned by tax haven wealth. Finally a senior politician, Jeremy Corbyn, has the courage to stand up to the unaccountable super-rich.
It's the tax havens that own the politicians! Donnachadh McCarthy | 6th April 2016 Comment Finance Politics UK Economics monaco-cut.jpg Never mind Cameron's mealy mouthed denials that he or his …
Roads, mines, dams, power lines, pipelines and other infrastructure projects are fast eating into the world's 'core forests', writes Bill Laurance. These rare and precious places where wildlife and ecological processes can flourish undisturbed must come before the evanescent gains of 'development'. To save what's left, governments and funders must learn the word 'No!'
Saying 'No!' A last chance for the world's forests Bill Laurance James Cook University | 5th February 2016 News Forests Development Transport Conservation Africa Brazil Malaysia amazon-dam-cut.jpg …
Boosters of 'free trade' agreements - like the Trans Pacific Partnership that's being signed today - like to make big promises, writes Pete Dolack: trillions of dollars of economic gains, billions of dollars of investment, millions of new jobs. But there's only one certainty, and it's one they never mention: the permanent redistribution of power and income from working people to capital.
Promises be damned: TPP 'benefits' are strictly for the corporations Pete Dolack | 4th February 2016 News Trade Politics Regulation Economics Corporations New Zealand Pacific tpp-free-cut.jpg …
Dam builders have a new mantra, writes Tom Fawthrop: 'sustainable hydropower'. Repeated at every opportunity, it is based on the unproven idea that large dams can be made 'sustainable' by promising future 'mitigation'. And so it is at the Don Sahong dam in Laos which is about to devastate the mighty Mekong and the 60 million people who depend on it for food and livelihood.
Damming the Mekong - the myth of 'sustainable hydropower' Tom Fawthrop | 16th January 2016 News Water Ecology Food Indigenous Peoples Cetaceans Hydropower Laos dam river contrast-cut.jpg Dam builders …
Theresa May's first big decision as PM was to duck out of a signing ceremony and review the Hinkley C nuclear project. But she will soon have to reach her decision. In this open letter Scientists for Global Responsibility set out six compelling reasons for her to let the whole monstrous white elephant go.
Dear Theresa: Let it go! Six powerful reasons to dump Hinkley C Scientists for Global Responsibility | 7th September 2016 Comment Nuclear Energy Finance UK France Politics hpc-cut.jpg Theresa May's …
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.
Industry fingerprints all over Reuters' attack on IARC over glyphosate and cancer Claire Robinson GMWatch | 21st April 2016 News Media Health Toxics Pesticides Un EU Regulation Corporations …
At first glance the abolition of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) tolled a death knell for UK action on global warming. However, rising from the ashes is a new department that has the potential to put the climate agenda at the very heart of Government.
Will Theresa May's new heavyweight Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy put climate change centre stage? Joe Ware | 19th July 2016 Comment Climate Change Decc Greens Politics …
Greenpeace is being attacked for 'crimes against humanity' by 100 Nobel laureates for blocking GMO 'golden' rice, reports Claire Robinson. But the low-yielding crop is years away from going on sale, and there is no proof of any nutritional benefit to the malnourished children it's meant to benefit. Could the distinguished prize-winners have fallen for slick pro-GMO PR and spin?
Pro-GMO campaign exploits Nobel laureates in 'Golden Rice' Greenpeace attack Claire Robinson | 4th July 2016 Comment GMOs Campaigning Science Health Food golden_rice-cut.jpg Greenpeace is being …
Poaching of elephants and rhinos for their ivory tusks and horn is fast pushing these beautiful animals to extinction, writes Anneka Svenska. Decisive action is needed at the 17th CITES congress in South Africa to ban all international trade in these products, matched by equally strict laws at a national level.
Elephants: ten years left, and counting ... Anneka Svenska | 27th September 2016 Comment Wildlife Trade Extinction Africa Mammals Regulation small 4-cut.jpg Poaching of elephants and rhinos for their …
In 1975 Indonesia invaded the small Pacific country of East Timor, writes John Pilger, and then massacred a third of its population to suppress demands for independence. Now unearthed documents show the genocide was supported by Australia so it could grab the oil and gas reserves of the Timor Sea. Despite East Timor's independence, won in 1999, Australia is still stealing its oil and gas revenues worth $5 billion and counting.
Australia's complicity in the East Timor genocide: oil, gas and the depravity of power John Pilger | 31st March 2016 News East Timor Australia Indonesia USA Pacific Oil Law Human Rights War …
Investigative reporter, TOM FAWTHROP has just returned from the site of the Don Sahong - a hydrodam being constructed in the middle of an eco-paradise of wetlands in Southern Laos where over 200 fish species have been recorded.
Ecologist Investigation: How the largest inland fisheries in the world are being destroyed TOM FAWTHROP | 3rd August 2016 News Biodiversity Meking River Hydrodams Fisheries Dolphins Ecosystems veung …
Monsanto has acquired a commanding role in the biotech, seed and agro-chemical industries, writes Carmelo Ruiz. So why is the company desperate to merge with its rival Syngenta? The truth is the company is in deep trouble, as its top-selling Roundup herbicide runs out of steam, and its rivals combine to challenge its dominance.
Monsanto defeated? That's what the Syngenta merger shows us Carmelo Ruiz GMWatch | 27th January 2016 Comment Corporations Farming GMOs Finance monsanto-march-cut.jpg Monsanto has acquired a …
It's now clear what place government ministers and senior officials want for the UK in a post-Brexit world, writes Mark Curtis - and it's not pretty! A new era of corporate 'free trade' colonialism looms, spearheaded by aid spending, with ramped-up arms exports to the world's most corrupt and repressive regimes, all backed up by military force to project the Britain's global financial interests.
Post-Brexit dreams of empire: arms, free trade and corporate conquest Mark Curtis Global Justice Now | 5th December 2016 News Brexit Politics Human Rights Trade Development hms-vanguard-cut.jpg It's …
The UK's nuclear power programme is driven by military demands, write Andy Stirling & Phil Johnstone - but not in the way you might think. The most essential need is not for plutonium or tritium, but for a nuclear industrial sector to design, build and maintain the reactors that power nuclear submarines. Without them, the Trident missile system would have no military credibility.
Trident, nuclear submarines and the UK's nuclear power imperative Andy Stirling Phil Johnstone | 15th January 2016 News Nuclear WMD UK Energy Politics hms-vanguard-cut.jpg The UK's nuclear power …
As a society, we are strangely disconnected from the Earth, writes Stephan Harding. It's as if we were aliens placed here to prod and poke with our scientific instruments whilst feeling no sense of meaning, belonging or closeness to her ancient crumpled surface or rich, teeming biodiversity - a state of mind that a forthcoming course at Schumacher College aims to reverse.
Educating for Gaia: a wholistic approach to Earth science Dr Stephen Harding | 28th April 2016 Ethical Living Education Ecology Science daisies-cut.jpg As a society, we are strangely disconnected …