Antibiotics have saved countless millions of lives since the 1930s, but their power is failing due to their massive use in factory farming, horticulture, aquaculture and industry, says a new report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Antibiotics. We must stop all inessential uses of antibiotics, or face a future where we risk death from minor injuries and routine surgery.
… due to their massive use in factory farming, horticulture, aquaculture and industry, says a … better hygiene and fish vaccination. Use in horticulture Although not used as widely as in …
The claims made for GM agriculture are a transparent fraud. The real purpose of GM foods is to give giant corporations legally-enforceable monopoly powers over the entire global food chain.
… to supply carotene (and thus vitamin A) is by horticulture - which traditionally was at the … a huge and horrible issue primarily because horticulture has been squeezed out by …
Scientists, environmental and consumer groups have decried USDA's approval of two 'Arctic' apple varieties, while major food companies and apple growers have no plans to source or grow them - despite their potential to 'generate consumer excitement in the apple category.'
USDA approves world's first GMO apples The Ecologist | 16th February 2015 News Farming USA GMOs Regulation Food apples-cut.jpg Scientists, environmental and consumer groups have decried USDA's …
MEPs have voted against a proposed EU sed regulation that would further concentrate the seed market and discriminate against genetically diverse traditional seeds.
MEPs vote against EU seed Regulation Oliver Tickell | 31st January 2014 News Food Farming Seeds EU Regulation heritage-seed-library.png MEPs have voted against a proposed EU sed regulation that would …
A new review of the performance of politically fashionable 'voluntary' approaches to environmental protection demonstrates limited effectiveness, writes Donal McCarthy. Laws and regulations play a vital role in protecting nature and the wider environment - for which voluntarism is no substitute.
Voluntary schemes cannot replace environmental regulation Donal McCarthy RSPB | 16th November 2015 Comment Law Regulation Conservation Pollution pollution-cut.jpg A new review of the performance of …
Soon UK farmers will begin to spray their fields of wheat, barley, oats and peas with weed killer to make crops easier to harvest, writes Natasha Collins-Daniel. But the chemicals - including glyphosate, a probable carcinogen - can end up in our bread and other food. Let's put a stop to it now!
… in fact, the industry funded Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board's advice to …
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.
Pesticide deregulation - the real reason for Myron Ebell's Number 10 meeting? Georgina Downs | 3rd February 2017 Comment Health Pesticides Farming Politics UK USA Regulation spray-home-cut.jpg If it …
Despite campaigning to reduce child labour internationally, the US is home to at least 230,000 child labourers toiling in the fields to pick blueberries, tomatoes or cotton
The Harvest: new film reveals scourge of child labour in US farming Rosie Spinks | 1st September 2011 Activism How To Make A Difference Food And Farming Agriculture Child Labour Migrant Workers …
The widely used herbicide glyphosate has been judged 'safe', write Pete Farrer & Marianne Falck. But by the time it's used, it's in a 'formulation' with toxic surfactants, which escape EU regulation despite their known dangers. Germany alone has forbidden the use of the most dangerous surfactant - but is keeping its evidence secret.
Toxic glyphosate herbicides fly under the EU's regulatory radar Pete Farrer Marianne Falck | 12th September 2014 News Health Toxics Food Farming GMOs EU Regulation Corporations Germany …
Phillip Conford's treatise on the rise of the organic movement is anything but dull, says Mark Newton
The Development of the Organic Network: Linking People and Themes,1945-95 Mark Newton | 8th September 2011 Reviews Organic Books Agriculture Food And Farming History Development Pesticides …
Phosphorus is a crucial nutrient and a vital component of fertiliser, a mainstay of modern farming. But we could be heading for a major shortfall in supplies, argues Hannah Hislop, with some alarming consequences
… of poor conditions and abuse in the horticulture sector persist. Andrew Wasley …