Public Health England is guilty of gross scientific misconduct, writes Paul Mobbs, for its apparently deliberate whitewashing of the public health impacts of fracking. But it's all part of a pattern of maladministration that reaches to the heart of government.
… Shale gas and public health - the whitewash exposed Paul Mobbs | 6th May 2014 News Fracking Health UK Law Fossil Fuels Pollution Radiation gasmasks-cut.jpg Public Health England is guilty of gross scientific …
America's shale gas boom threatens families, pets, and food, writes Allison Wilson. Fresh from her reading of 'The Real Costs of Fracking', she finds a host of adverse health impacts on those living near fracking sites, the toxic pollution of the food chain, and a wall of corporate and official secrecy.
… Wilson | 25th February 2015 Reviews Fracking Health Energy Toxics Pollution Food Farming … of Fracking', she finds a host of adverse health impacts on those living near fracking … researchers to systematically document ill health in livestock, pets, and people living …
The EU's food and farming safety regulator is trying to create a 'back door' system to licence the use of herbicides that have been banned for their toxic impacts on people and wildlife - under a clearly inapplicable 'plant health' exemption.
… EFSA creates 'plant health' loophole for banned weedkillers Oliver … Tickell | 8th September 2016 News Pesticides Health Law Farming EU Food poppies-cut.jpg The … - under a clearly inapplicable 'plant health' exemption. While Europe has been …
The NHS is one of our greatest institutions and we must defend it to the hilt, writes Natalie Bennett. But to build the healthy society we all want and deserve, we need joined up policies across the policy spectrum, valuing human wellbeing above crude economic growth.
… Health and wellbeing are at the heart of our … Natalie Bennett | 3rd July 2015 Comment Health Politics UK Transport Green Economy … writes Natalie Bennett. But to build the healthy society we all want and deserve, we …
There's no such thing as 'healthy food' if it's not produced by sustainable farming systems on living soils, Patrick Holden told the recent 'Food: The Forgotten Medicine' conference. But after 70 years of industrial farming, there's a huge job to be done to restore our depleted soils and the impoverished genetic diversity of our seeds and crops.
… Good nutrition begins in healthy soils Patrick Holden | 7th September 2016 Comment Food Farming Health GMOs Pesticides jerusalem-arts-cut.jpg … There's no such thing as 'healthy food' if it's not produced by …
Thirty-five distinguished scientists urge the US-EPA not to register new mixtures of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate, intended for use on herbicide-tolerant GMO crops. Approval of the herbicide mixtures would endanger both human and environmental health.
… would endanger both human and environmental health. Administrator Gina McCarthy U.S. … of the Dow Chemical Company, would put public health at risk if sprayed on millions of acres … increased use of 2,4-D would pose to human health and the environment. A host of adverse …
Food has never been more affordable for middle class families in rich countries. But it comes at a high cost: the impact of industrial food production on health, environment and society has never been greater as Patrick Holden explained to Emily Lewis-Brown. Now the real cost of food US production will be examined in a ground-breaking conference in San Francisco.
… 'cheap' food is costing the Earth, and our health Emily Lewis-Brown | 7th April 2016 … the impact of industrial food production on health, environment and society has never been … food has, ironically, put both our health and the future of farming at risk. Food …
Easy to miss in the New Year Honours list: a little-known civil servant for 'services to pesticides regulation'. But none the less shocking for that, writes Georgina Downs. Paul Hamey MBE is the very man who has been responsible for ensuring that rural residents receive no proper protection from repeated exposure to toxic mixtures of pesticides on nearby farms. Go figure.
… Georgina Downs | 18th January 2016 News Health Toxics Farming Regulation UK … regulation of pesticides." According to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) press release … amongst other areas. A catastrophic public health and safety failure This is because, to …
The risk of cancer from the world's top herbicide, glyphosate, is just the tip of the iceberg of health damage caused by exposure to pesticides and other toxic agrochemicals, writes Georgina Downs. It's time for governments to correct their scandalous failure to protect rural residents from the cocktails of poisons sprayed on crops.
… future Georgina Downs | 30th April 2015 News Health Toxics Farming Corporations Regulation … with residential properties, causing adverse health impacts to rural residents. Photo: UK … glyphosate, is just the tip of the iceberg of health damage caused by exposure to pesticides …
Tomorrow MPs will debate a bill to halt the ongoing privatisation of the NHS, writes John Hilary. But even if the bill passes into law, it risks being squashed by the TTIP - the increasingly unpopular US-EU trade deal which could hand over the NHS to US health giants.
… debate John Hilary | 20th November 2011 News Health Trade Finance Politics UK USA … deal which could hand over the NHS to US health giants. The first Commons debate of … Friday until the vote. Efford's National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) …
Unpasteurised milk can be a divisive subject, says Laura Sevier, but most of what you hear about the white stuff is pure whitewash
… Raw milk - magic bullet or health hazard? Laura Sevier | 21st January 2009 News Milk Health Farmers Market Whole Food Organic … Animal Husbandry Organics Organics Food And Health Green Lifestyle Organics Processed …
If it wasn't climate change, was the real purpose of the Number 10 meeting of Theresa May's advisors and President Trump's environmental transition supremo Myron Ebell to plan the post-Brexit deregulation of UK farming, including pesticides? That's how it looks, writes Georgina Downs - and we had better begin now to fight for our health, wildlife and environment.
… Georgina Downs | 3rd February 2017 Comment Health Pesticides Farming Politics UK USA … and we had better begin now to fight for our health, wildlife and environment. There has … exist in order to downplay the risks and health and environmental impacts of harmful …
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
… OP Chemical Farming Sheep Food And Farming Health Sheep Dip News Focus Organophosphate … David Layton is one of hundreds of once-healthy sheep farmers who have suffered from … of sheep farmers with debilitating ill health, Tom Levitt reports on the UK's …
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.
… 2016 Comment Food Farming India Trade GMOs Health Pesticides Toxics … India is likely to rise to 101 million (World Health Organisation estimate). The number … and economic distress, lack of access to healthcare and poverty, contribute to ill …
Regulatory failures are allowing Danish pigs infected with lethal antibiotic-resistant bacteria into British farms, writes Andrew Wasley, with contaminated pork found in UK supermarkets, and three human infections recorded. The official response? Deny there's a problem, take no action, and hope for the best. Six people may have died from the bug in Denmark, but the UK is safe, surely?
… Journalism | 14th October 2016 News Health Food Farming UK Denmark EU Regulation … epidemic could have a serious impact on human health, according to leading Danish … that are critically important in human healthcare. Methycillin Resistant …
Hers was a landmark victory against the Government. Campaigner Georgina Downs on the importance of setting a policy precedent on pesticides
… Downs | 29th January 2009 Comment Pesticide Health Government Policy Regulation … Farming Pests And Pesticides Risk Food And Health UK Pesticides Health Politics And Economics …
A new report from leading physicians published today reveals the excess mortality caused by UK air pollution, writes Vanessa Amaral-Rogers. The Government has already been found in breach of the EU's Air Quality Directive, but its policies remain weak. Will it finally step up to prevent early deaths from this silent killer?
… Amaral-Rogers | 23rd January 2016 News Health Pollution UK EU Law Science … the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) starkly sets out the dangerous … pollution is currently having on our nation's health - with around 40,000 deaths a year …
A broad community of independent scientific researchers and scholars challenges claims of a 'consensus' that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are 'safe' to grow and eat. The claims - which continue to be widely and often uncritically aired - are a false and artificial construct that have been misleadingly perpetuated through diverse media.
… | 23rd February 2015 News GMOs Food Farming Health Science corn-storm-iowa-cut.jpg Are GMO … depicted internal circle of stakeholders. The health, environment, and agriculture … caution, potentially endangering the health of humans, animals, and the …
After an apparent cave-in to Europe's pesticide industry, the European Food Safety Authority's latest guidance on pesticides conflicts with European law, writes Georgina Downs - by ignoring the real-life agrochemical exposure of rural residents. Commission President Juncker must step in and demand the withdrawal of this disgraceful document.
… of over $52 billion. A catastrophic public health and safety failure For anyone … that there will be no harmful effect on human health. This must apply to all the necessary … situation then this is a catastrophic public health and safety failure on a truly …
The Green Party manifesto, published today, pledges to enact long overdue restrictions on the use of toxic pesticides to protect rural residents and children from adverse health impacts, writes Georgina Downs. Now all political parties must follow where the Greens have led.
… Georgina Downs | 14th April 2015 Comment Health Farming Politics Toxics … rural residents and children from adverse health impacts, writes Georgina Downs. Now all … be compromised on, as it involves public health protection. After all, the primary duty …