Big Sugar is the new Big Tobacco, writes Alan Farago - lethal to human health, wreaking environmental devastation, gouging huge public subsidies, and with the political clout to stop First Lady Michelle Obama from breathing a word against it. Only an alliance of 'green', health and taxpayer campaigners can kill the beast.
… Florida's sugar barons grow fat on subsidies, diabetes … Pollution Politics neverglades-cut.jpg Big Sugar is the new Big Tobacco, writes Alan … first significant, coordinated pressure on sugar consumption: " ... governments are …
The Chancellor's 'sport not sugar' move to tax sugary drinks was extremely welcome, writes Simon Bullock. But we need a similar Treasury approach to protect people from other threats too. So how about tackling the air pollution that's killing tens of thousands of Britons a year?
… Chancellor is right to act on sugar. Next, air pollution! Simon Bullock | … The Chancellor's 'sport not sugar' move to tax sugary drinks was extremely welcome, writes …
The Tea Party of Miami put up a convincing demo last week to oppose a 'land grab' that would see 46,000 acres of sugar farm land restored for Everglades conservation. Just one problem - the 'protestors' were actors each being paid $75 for the two-hour shift.
… Tea Party's fake protestors for Big Sugar against Florida Everglades Oliver … a 'land grab' that would see 46,000 acres of sugar farm land restored for Everglades … 46,000 acres of 'conservation' land from US Sugar and other landowners south of Lake …
Continuing expansion of China has offset the reduction in carbon emissions in recession-hit western countries, according to data released by US
… emissions are from exports INVESTIGATION Will sugar be the oil of the 21st century? You can … to plastics. But will the surge in demand for sugar end up having a serious environmental …
Air pollution can damage the health of pregnant women and their children - even if the pollution is within permitted limits, according to a study from Lund University in Sweden. Among the risks, diabetes.
… diabetes, where women experience high blood sugar during pregnancy. The risk was raised by …
I’m sitting opposite the large Coca-Cola bottling plant next to the village of Plachimada in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Plachimada is a farming village of about 800 families, many of them tribal. The ugly factory looks rather out of place in such a beautiful setting, the Western Ghats mountains clearly visible in the distance.
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High petrol prices mean less demand and less pollution, right? Not necessarily, finds Mark Jansen. Our relationship with our cars is far more complex...
… was achieving lower and lower prices for its sugar exports and paying more and more for oil. Today, ethanol derived from sugar cane accounts for more than half the …
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.
… consuming more calories, preservatives and sugar than ever before, while reducing their … Science in the Public Interest stated: ‘Added sugars – found largely in junk foods such as … squeeze healthier foods out of the diet. That sugar now accounts for 16 per cent of the …
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?’
As Russia looks like extending its dominion into Crimea and East Ukraine, Ola Cichowlas finds that Vladimir Putin cares rather less about the the heart of Russia itself - places like Berezniki, the country's very own chemical alley.
… described this process as being "like a sugar cube in a cup of tea." This former Gulag …
A Greenpeace investigation has exposed the massive efforts of global food and drink giant Coca Cola to defeat popular proposals to require deposits on single-use plastic bottles, writes Maeve McClenaghan. In fact, deposit schemes are working fine in many countries in which the company operates - it's a simple case of corporate profit before environment, oceans and wildlife.
… intention to push back against a proposed sugar tax amongst other initiatives. 'Looking …
Sustainability in cities must mean environment, economy and equality. But all too often town planners are only concerned about parks, cafes and side walks. This can lead to gentrification rather than improved quality of life, argue WINIFRED CURRAN and TRINA HAMILTON
… ground for oil refineries, chemical plants, sugar refineries, fiber mills, copper smelting …
With growing evidence of harm to physical and mental health caused by continuous pulsed em radiation from 'smart' electricity meters, Lynne Wycherley asks: have we underestimated risks to heart function and the nervous system? And of interference with embedded medical devices, such as cardiac pacemakers? It's time to switch to over-wire or fibre communications to bring the 'smart green grid' of the future to electrosmog-free reality.
… cases, a diabetic boy's 2-year stable blood-sugar (6.8) rose to 9.5 while a smart-meter …