You can turn it into everything from fuel to plastics. But will the surge in demand for sugar end up having a serious environmental impact?
… Will sugar be the oil of the 21st century? Matilda … Lee | 1st December 2009 News Investigations Sugarcane Brazil Agro-Ecological Zoning … Sao Paulo Coca-Cola Dow Chemicals Braskem sugar.jpg You can turn it into everything from …
As part of the Ecologist's special investigation into the hidden costs of tea, milk and sugar, here's how to get involved in cleaning up your cuppa
… Rights Organic Agriculture Dairy Farming Sugar Tea Supermarkets cuppapic.jpg How to get … into the hidden costs of tea, milk and sugar, here's how to get involved in cleaning … YOUR CUPPA?' SPECIAL INVESTIGATION HERE (PDF) Sugar Bridges across Borders Cambodia is a …
Fruit and vegetables as nature intended them, delivered direct to your door. Matilda Lee reports
… olive oil, vinegar, butter, milk, eggs, sugar, basil, garlic, oregano, thyme, … 25 g butter, salt and pepper, 2 eggs, 2 tbsp sugar, ½ tsp nutmeg, 225ml/1 cup milk, 9 1/2 … salt and pepper 3. Beat the eggs, add the sugar and nutmeg. Add the milk. Stir into the …
India's food system, essentially clean just a generation ago, has been comprehensively contaminated with sugar, bad fats, synthetic additives, GMOs and pesticides under the country's neoliberal 'great leap forwards', writes Colin Todhunter. The result? a surge in obesity, diabetes and cancer incidence, but no let-up in the under-nutrition of those too poor to join in the over-consumption.
… has been comprehensively contaminated with sugar, bad fats, synthetic additives, GMOs and … well as higher intakes of fat, sodium, added sugars and sugar-sweetened beverages and lower intakes of …
Keen to have your little one avoid the over-processed, additive-packed diet of today’s obesity-prone youth? Then give your weaning baby healthy eating habits for life by starting them off with nutritious food easily made at home writes Matilda Lee
… stove. Let cool and serve. Tips • Don’t add sugar or salt to your baby’s food. Salt is harmful to a baby’s immature kidneys and sugar is habit-forming. • Pressed for time? …
Agroecology is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' of agribusiness, biotech, big finance and 'free trade', writes Colin Todhunter, as it represents a truly viable alternative to agriculture for corporate profit. But such are the powers ranged against the world's small farmers that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement.
… of a few cash-crops like wheat, rice, or sugar, rather than their traditional … For example, one acre of chemically grown sugarcane requires as much water as would … 25 acres of jowar, bajra or maize. The sugar factories too consume huge quantities. …
Bhaskar Save, the 'Gandhi of natural farming', died last year after a lifetime of organic growing and determined campaigning against the destruction of India's traditional, sustainable agriculture, writes Colin Todhunter. His 2006 open letter, published here, sets out a devastating critique of industrial agriculture and its impacts, and an eloquent and timely agroecological manifesto.
… of big and medium dams in this country. But sugarcane alone, grown on barely 3-4% of its … waters! One acre of chemically grown sugarcane requires as much water as would … 25 acres of jowar, bajra or maize. The sugar factories too consume huge quantities. …
The technology isn't fully developed yet, but when meat really can be grown in a lab it's going to turn all our arguments about carnivorous diets on their heads...
… a culture medium (a nutritious soup of water, sugar, amino acid, vitamins and minerals in …
Oysters need a thriving natural eco-system and ultra clean water to survive. And as Matilda Lee discovered on a visit to Loch Fyne Oysters, they even find their own food. So are oysters the green choice?
… it’s cured for 17 hours with salt and brown sugar, then cold smoked for 16 hours, then hot …
As the UK grapples with the arrival of 'mega' farms like Nocton and Foston, a shocking new book, CAFO, reveals the cruelty and vast scale of the global meat and dairy industry
… a bad taste in the mouth Unlike tea and sugar, the fresh milk we drink with our cuppa …
Organic farming produces more nutritious food than chemical agriculture, writes Colin Todhunter, while sustaining soils and building organic matter. And we know this from real, peer-reviewed scientific studies - unlike the pseudo-science touted at us by the self-interested advocates of industrial agribusiness.
… of a few cash-crops like wheat, rice, or sugar, rather than their traditional …