Recent reports of catastrophic declines in bee populations have had scientists buzzing around looking for a plausible explanation. Is it mites? Is it GM crops? Is it mobile phones or habitat loss? It's all of these things, says Pat Thomas, but it's also so much more than that.
… plants, no more animals, no more man.' This vision may be coming true. Our bees are dying. … and technology. It could be a frightening vision of our own future. Bees in the 'hood Of …
Genetically modified food. It’s a big issue. Increasingly, we are handed the notion that GM food is just like any other food, only better, because of its almost magical power to solve our most immediate crises of poverty, hunger, fossil-fuel depletion and climate change.
… from those who work and rely upon it. In this vision of the future our relationship to land …
The Panorama programme on GM foods and crops last Monday was a masterpiece of spin, bluster, misrepresentation and outright deceit, write Lawrence Woodward & Pat Thomas, with the BBC's top investigatory strand hijacked to force feed the UK population with the purest of pro-GMO propaganda.
… ride and promotional slot on prime time television. It's tempting to say that you couldn't … without genetic modification." This lack of vision was reflected in the strongly pro-GM … unnecessary, as well as risky, was beyond the vision of the production team. Instead the …
Pat Thomas, Health Editor of the <i>Ecologist<i/>, responds to Felicity Lawrence's article in the Guardian on the link between junk food and mental health
… the solutions need to have similar breadth of vision. Pat Thomas Health Editor The Ecologist …
Faced with an itchy young head full of nits, it's all too easy to reach for a bottle of potent chemicals. But is smothering your child's hair in pesticides really the best solution?
Far from being the healthy drink implied by its sports sponsorships, Diet Coke is a worrying cocktail of neurotoxic and potentially carcinogenic chemicals
Tested, assessed and treated as patients rather than mothers-to-be, it's no wonder women are afraid of giving birth naturally, says Pat Thomas as International Women's Day arrives
… what we are left with is an assembly line vision of birth that is a little too close to …