The Ecologist goes inside the workings of Smithfield to reveal the true horrors of its pig production business
Smithfield Foods: the truth behind its pigs and factories Robert Kennedy Jr | 1st December 2003 News Smithfield Foods Farming Pig Farming Factory Farming Poland Agribusiness Pork Animal Abuse Factory …
Myth number 7: Industrial agriculture benefits the environment and wildlife
Silent Earth Andrew Kimbell | 1st June 2003 News Industrial Agriculture Natural World Diversity Agribusiness Factory Farming Natural World Food And Farming Politics And Economics Science And …
Myth Number 5: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IS EFFICIENT
Bigger But Not Better Andrew Kimbrell | 1st April 2003 News Industrial Farming Agriculture Local Economy Community Small Farms EU Farming Agribusiness Animal Husbandry Factory Farming Agribusiness …
Considering its estimated 25,000-plus uses – for producing food, fuel, medicine, paper, plastics and even dynamite – the most wasteful thing you could probably do with hemp is smoke it. Jake Bowers describes hemp’s potential to transform agriculture and the plant’s demonisation by huge and competing industrial interests
Seeds of Hope Jake Bowers | 1st May 2003 News Hemp Agriculture Native Sovereignty Organic Agriculture Indigenous Peoples Agribusiness Food And Farming Considering its estimated 25,000-plus uses – for …
Ros Coward reports from Murcia in southern Spain, the driest place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water supplies and causing a growing environmental crisis.
Blood is Thicker... Ros Coward | 1st February 2003 News Murcia Spain Europe Intensive Agriculture Tour Consumerism Drought Fresh Water Agribusiness Famine International Development International …
Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’
Say It Without Flowers Venetia Hargreaves-Allen | 1st October 2003 News Cut Flowers Flower Miles Pesticides Slave Labour Kenya Toxic Chemicals Agriculture Farming Water Waste Wages Labour Unions …
After years of failing to make its modified products do its bidding, the biotech industry is changing tack – now its modifying the protestors. Jonathan Matthews reports from South Africa
Modifying protests: how the biotech industry is garnering support Jonathan Matthews | 1st February 2003 News Biotechnology Gm Agriculture Organic Farming Biotechnology Biotechnology Gm Products …
Last month the Food Standards Agency declared that eating organic chickens increases risk of campylobacter poisoning. So what?
Flawed Research The Ecologist | 1st February 2003 News Campylobacter Organic Food Chicken Food Standar Agribusiness Organics Organics Food And Health Farming Animal Husbandry Factory Farming …