With EU ministers due to decide tomorrow on the future of the glyphosate in the EU, Colin Todhunter finds evidence of collusion between regulators and the corporations whose sales of the 'probably carcinogenic' herbicide add up to many billions of dollars a year - evidence that underlies a legal action alleging fraud by the European Food Safety Authority against the EU's 508 million citizens.
Glyphosate in the EU: product promoters masquerading as regulators in a 'cesspool of corruption'? Colin Todhunter | 17th May 2016 Activism Pesticides Health Science Regulation EU Toxics Corporations …
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.
India: obesity, malnutrition and the globalisation of bad food Colin Todhunter | 4th April 2016 Comment Food Farming India Trade GMOs Health Pesticides Toxics mcdonalds-india-cut.jpg India's food …
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.
The world must step off the chemical farming treadmill Colin Todhunter | 29th October 2015 Comment Farming Food Health India Toxics work-farm-india-cut.jpg Organic farming produces more nutritious …
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.
Resisting the corporate stranglehold on food and farming - is agroecology enough? Colin Todhunter | 4th March 2016 Comment Food Farming Corporations The Land India USA Mexico Trade Health Society …