Tyrone Hayes has fought a 15-year battle with Syngenta following his discovery that its herbicide Atrazine scrambles sex in frogs, writes F William Engdahl. Now he wants to know - is Atrazine the cause of the US's 2-fold reproductive cancer excess among Blacks and Hispanics?
Atrazine: Syngenta's herbicide doesn't just poison frogs - it could give you cancer F William Engdahl | 2nd June 2014 News Health Farming Toxics Corporations Regulation USA …
Urgent calls from health experts to reduce antibiotic use on intensive farms are largely resisted by the agribusiness food lobby, who downplay its role in the spread of antibiotic resistance in humans. Tom Levitt reports
Overuse of drugs in animal farming linked to growing antibiotic-resistance in humans Tom Levitt | 23rd May 2011 News Antibiotics Food And Farming Health Factory Farming chickenscramped.jpg The …
The 2011 Fukushima catastrophe is an ongoing disaster whose end only gets more remote as time passes. The government is desperate to get evacuees back into their homes for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but the problems on the ground, and in the breached reactor vessels, are only getting more serious and costly, as unbelievable volumes of radiation contaminate land, air and ocean.
Fukushima catastrophe unfolds ... key facts and figures for an unhappy sixth anniversary L'ACROnique de Fukushima Hervé Courtois | 10th March 2017 News Nuclear Energy Japan Health Finance Water …
Government orders to use dangerous organophosphate chemicals left hundreds of sheep farmers with debilitating ill health, Tom Levitt reports on the UK's forgotten pesticide tragedy
Ghosts of farming: Britain's forgotten sheep farmers poisoned by pesticides Tom Levitt | 28th March 2012 News Pesticide OP Chemical Farming Sheep Food And Farming Health Sheep Dip News Focus …
A huge EU-US trade and investment deal may not be quite so dangerous as its opponents portray it, writes Gabriel Siles-Brügge - but it still represents a serious threat to governments' ability to regulate for the benefit of citizens and environment, and would entrench 'competitive' markets in public service provision.
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A tax on unhealthy foods would be more effective at tackling obesity than making healthy foods cheaper but could hit the poorest the hardest
'Fat tax' needed to tackle obesity The Ecologist | 4th March 2010 News Food And Farming Tax Subsidy Consumer Society Health doughnut.jpg The study claims that a 'fat tax' would be more effective than …
Sneaked out shortly before MP's Christmas recess, the Government's decision to 'carry on culling' badgers with no evidence that the slaughter is reducing the incidence of bovine TB is a travesty of process, writes Lesley Docksey. But it does have one useful outcome - it has exposed Defra's claims that the cull is 'science-led' as arrant nonsense. Science never even got a look in.
Truss's decision: badger culling will continue, with no evidence it works Lesley Docksey | 5th January 2015 Activism Badgers Mammals Hunting Farming Health UK Natural World badger-road-cut.jpg …
After long battles, three farmers in France have won legal claims that their cases of cancer and Parkinson's disease were caused by working with pesticides. Now they want to help others fight similar cases
Cancer and pesticides: victims fight for justice Diana Smith | 4th February 2010 Comment Food And Farming Health Pesticides Cancer pouring chemical.jpg After long battles, three farmers in France …
Women-centred maternity care through midwifery is in danger of extinction, replaced by a medical model that treats birth as an illness. Birth is an act of love, not one of fear and loathing, so what are the consequences? Matilda Lee reports
Labour of love: the demise of traditional midwifery Matilda Lee | 7th March 2012 News Health Society Politics And Economics Birth Breastfeeding Maternity Midwives 15midwives.jpg What happened to …
Biological rocket fuel they may be, but ‘sports’ drinks can be a danger to health in the long term. Pat Thomas reports
Behind the label: Lucozade Sport with Caffeine Boost Pat Thomas | 22nd January 2009 Ethical Living Lucozade Caffeine Energy Drink Behind The Label Glaxosmithkline Isotinic Sports Drink Energy Boost …
Privatised energy has failed us, writes Sam Lund-Harket. While energy company chiefs earn millions of pounds a year, one in ten English households live in fuel poverty. But there is another way. All over the world countries and communities are taking energy, water and other essential public services back under democratic control.
… Movement (soon to be Global Justice Now) campaigning to end corporate control of the …
The overuse of antibiotics in intensive farming could have devastating consequences for human health. What's more, the safety of some antibiotics used in human medicine has been challenged by some patients who say they've suffered terrifying side effects...
Antibiotics under the spotlight The Ecologist | 12th June 2011 Comment Antibiotics MRSA E.coli Health Intensive Farming Comment Health antibiotics under the spotlight.jpg The overuse of antibiotics …
The economic and climate-related impacts of forest destruction are well known, but continued logging could unleash devastating new pandemics and spread fatal diseases into the human population, scientists tell the Ecologist
Deforestation could fuel deadly spread of malaria, yellow fever and Lyme disease David Hawkins | 17th November 2010 News Health Deforestation Climate Change Malaria Yellow Fever HIV Logging …
David Cameron has called the badger cull is 'probably the most unpopular policy for which I am responsible', writes Dominic Dyer. But unable to break his pledge to landowners and the NFU, he has left Environment Secretary Liz Truss to fudge the issue until election time. Electorally fatal? So events may prove.
Will the badger cull cost the Tories the election? It certainly should! Dominic Dyer | 16th March 2015 Comment Badgers Politics Natural World Health Farming cull-tories-not-badgers-cut.jpg David …
Government and corporations are resorting to the judicial repression of environmental activism in Malaysia, writes Meena Raman - deploying public order and defamation laws to suppress criticism and protest. Malaysia must value its peoples health and security above corporate profit.
Malaysia: eco-activists combat judicial repression Meena Raman | 26th September 2014 Comment Malaysia Health Pollution Law anti-lynas_protest-cut.jpg The environmental movement in Malaysia remains …
The very term 'genetic engineering' implies high precision in the alterations made to genes and deep understanding of their consequences, writes Jonathan Latham. In fact, we have never had either. And even with the arrival of CRISPR and other 'gene editing' systems, that remains the case: technologists are thrashing about in a perilous sea of unfathomable complexities and unknowable outcomes.
CRISPR and the three myths of precise genome editing Jonathan Latham Independent Science News | 25th April 2016 Comment GMOs Science Technology Media Health 741px-crispr-cut.png The very term …
Africa's car battery recycling industry is anything but green, write Desirée García & Javier Marín on African Environment Day. Toxic emissions from the re-smelting of lead from old batteries is poisoning workers and nearby communities. And among the buyers of the lead are EU car companies, apparently indifferent to the death, disease and contamination they are financing.
Dirty business: Africa's unregulated lead battery smelting Desirée García Javier Marín | 3rd March 2016 News Recycling Africa Pollution Toxics Health jackson wanyama-former worker at the …
Cincinnati has passed a new law introducing 'environmental justice permits', and will use police powers to force polluting businesses to clean up their acts or get out of town
Cincinnati law to police polluting businesses The Ecologist | 3rd July 2009 News Green Living Investigations Health Society Cincinnati Environmental Justice EPA Air Business Economic cincinnati.jpg …
Stop Killing Cyclists are staging a protest in London on 27th April to demand an end to the UK's intolerable air pollution, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. With an estimated 40,000 people dying every year from filthy air, much of it caused by diesel cars, all are welcome to join in, denounce the government's 'polluters' friend' policies, and insist on swift action to stop the needless deaths.
This deadly pollution must stop! London cyclists rally for health and climate Donnachadh McCarthy | 20th April 2016 Activism Pollution Cities UK Fossil Fuels London Health Regulation Toxics …
As they argue for an extended and intensified badger cull, some farmers have been making extravagant and improbable claims about giant badgers frolicking with their cattle in the sunshine, write Jay Tiernan & Lesley Docksey. But despite holding office in the NFU, they display astonishing negligence by failing to adopt the most elementary bio-security measures advised by Defra to keep their cattle TB free.
The NFU's dishonesty over badger culling Jay Tiernan Lesley Docksey | 22nd August 2015 Activism Badgers Farming Health UK cattle-cut.jpg As they argue for an extended and intensified badger cull, …
Innovation in medicine must be geared towards public health and not private profit, according to a new report.
The health innovation system is 'broken' Marianne Brooker | 18th October 2018 Comment Health NHS nintchdbpict000285621123.jpg Innovation in medicine must be geared towards public health and not …
A new wave of ‘next generation' GM crops resistant to multiple herbicides, may be approved for import into the European Union, writes Helen Wallace, even though the health impact of the herbicide combinations is unknown. Regulators and retailers must refuse to authorise these GMOs or allow their use in any part of the food chain.
Regulators and retailers must stop ‘next generation' GMO imports Helen Wallace | 20th November 2015 Comment GMOs Farming Food Toxics Health Regulation EU palmers-amaranth-cut.jpg A new wave of ‘next …
As 300 protestors gather at the European Commission to protest at the resumption of TTIP trade talks between the EU and the USA, Oliver Tickell finds that the EU's newly released draft 'chapter' on food safety and animal welfare is a disastrous capitulation to corporate interests that will strip governments of their powers to regulate.
TTIP is a lethal attack on food safety and animal welfare Oliver Tickell | 4th February 2015 Comment Trade US EU Farming Food Health Corporations stop-ttip-eurocomm-cut.jpg As 300 protestors gather …