It has been an epic battle, writes Aisha Dodwell. Monsanto and other corporations are desperate to get the world's number one herbicide, glyphosate, relicenced in the EU. But their network of power has been challenged by doctors, scientists and a global movement of people. With today's postponement of the EU's decision, we have just scored a major victory.
EU postpones glyphosate decision: a good day for public health! Aisha Dodwell | 8th March 2016 Comment EU Regulation Politics Un Health Corporations kills-the-roots-cut.jpg It has been an epic …
The European Parliament just voted to re-authorise glyphosate, writes Peter Melchett - but with significant restrictions on its use. So what does the vote mean for the world's biggest selling herbicide? And how come the UK's National Farmers' Union welcomed the decision as an unqualified victory?
The beginning of the end for glyphosate? Peter Melchett Soil Association | 15th April 2016 Comment EU UK Farming Food Pesticides Health Politics Science glyphosate-spray-cut.jpg The European …
The 'cancer industry', including charities with close links to chemicals corporations, is always keen to blame cancer victims for their morally deficient lifestyles, writes Colin Todhunter. But the real fault lies with the commercial interests touting bad food, nutritionally unbalanced and laced with toxic agrochemicals - like the ubiquitous glyphosate - and their residues.
We are being silently poisoned: the case against glyphosate Colin Todhunter | 14th April 2016 Comment Heath Food Farming Corporations Regulation Pesticides Toxics EU USA burger-cut.jpg The 'cancer …
There is huge untapped potential in the green economy to create millions of decent jobs, writes Jean Lambert - but only if lessons are learned from the Government's flawed, now scrapped, Green Deal. Lesson one: we desperately need a well-funded, ambitious replacement.
Green jobs: the potential is there, but where's the political will? Jean Lambert MEP | 11th August 2015 Comment Green Economy Politics EU UK Energy Efficiency seeing-green-cut.jpg There is huge …
BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates how Brexiteers are seeking to redefine protected wildlife as a “scourge” to industry in part one of a new three-part series on EU environmental protections
The Brexiteer and the newt – a case study in the EU, corporations and nature Brendan Montague | 20th March 2018 Comment Brexit EU Environmental Regulations Deregulation great_crested_newt.jpg BRENDAN …
On the first anniversary of the UK's National Pollinator Strategy, writes Sandra Bell, the Bee Coalition warns that bees are still under threat from highly toxic pesticides, continuing loss of habitat, and an increasingly inhospitable countryside. The Government must do more to protect our bees.
Our threatened bees deserve better! Sandra Bell Friends of the Earth | 4th November 2015 Comment Natural World Farming Law UK EU Bees bumble-bee-cut.jpg On the first anniversary of the UK's National …