Campaigners in India are facing charges including trespassing and criminal intimidation following a protest last month against genetically modified rice being trialled by Bayer BioScience
… Bayer clamps down on GM rice protest in India The Ecologist | 13th … Food And Farming Bayer Gm India Rice Greenpeace Genetic Engineering Biotech Brinjal Sheep rice.jpg Campaigners in India are facing …
Whether for health, ethical or environmental reasons, a low-dairy or dairy-free diet is becoming more mainstream. Here's how to have your (cheese)cake and eat it too...
… Health Dairy Free Soya Vegan Food Miles Rice Milk Allergies Lactose Intolerance Tim … milk than soya: alternatives include rice, oat, hazelnut, quinoa and almond milks. … concentrate (in Alpro Soya Fresh, £1.46/ltr). Rice Dream's rice milk (£1.99/ltr) was sweet …
Whether it's the old favourite Sarson's, trendy balsamic or the more adventurous rice or wine vinegar, it can be used to clean your house, improve your health and spice up your chips – what makes vinegar so special? Laura Sevier picks 10 of the best...
… Top Ten Top 10 Vinegar Balsamic White Wine Rice Red Wine Cleaning Healing Antimicrobial … trendy balsamic or the more adventurous rice or wine vinegar, it can be used to clean … is a mixture of the above two methods. Price is usually an indication of quality. • …
Spices don't simply add flavour to your food - they also aid digestion, protect against bacteria and prevent a range of illnesses
… white seeds to use, lightly crushed, in rice dishes, curries and meat stews. Freshly … be infused in milk to make a spicy custard or rice pudding. Cinnamon is a first-class … buttered toast and can be used to spice up rice or milk puddings. Try using a cinnamon …
Supporters of a controversial dam in one of Asia's poorest countries say it will bring huge economic benefits. Critics say it could threaten fisheries and rice cultivation, threatening the livelihoods of millions. Brendan Brady reports from Laos
… Critics say it could threaten fisheries and rice cultivation, threatening the livelihoods … fisheries in the world, and the copious rice harvest of Vietnam’s fertile delta, where … makes that country the world’s second-largest rice exporter. Studies warn that this cascade …
Want to give up sugar while still indulging your sweet tooth? Mark Briggs rounds up 10 natural alternatives
… at Holos Foods, www.holosfoods.com Brown Rice Syrup Made from boiling brown rice, the syrup is gluten and wheat free. More … does transfer many of the benefits of brown rice to the eater (and without the 25-minute …
A new photographic exhibition - Made in Coorg - looks at what life is like for the coffee growers of the Coorg district of southern India, where the highly fertile land is increasingly sought after for larger plantations and tourism projects
… lives on a small plantation growing coffee, rice and spices near Kalluru, a tiny village … sometimes as little as 1kg at a time. The price of land in Coorg is rising quickly due to … easily in it, most notably coffee, but also rice, black pepper and cardamoms. In recent …
How to make your food your medicine and medicine your food, starting with six common herbs you can use in your recipes and everyday cooking
… it on tomato salads, in soups and to egg, rice and mushroom dishes. Make your own pesto … or as a topping on cooked vegetables or in rice dishes. Fennel is a relative of dill and … plate; stir it into omelettes, vegetable and rice dishes. Mix it with some butter, spread …
Move over Delia, Tracey Smith tells us how to bake no-fuss fabulous flatbread, hand made with minimal ingredients, including leftovers.
… I found handfuls of leftover cooked, cooled rice and pasta to be a thrifty … 1 cup of cooked, cooled, chopped pasta or rice (including peas/corn/etc) 5 cups of plain …
Ewan travels south through Laos and Thailand, discovering a landscape that speaks of the awkward throes of industrialisation...
… to palm oil, accompanied by the ubiquitous rice. I've seen people toiling in the fields of these crops, with rotary hoe and rice thresher, buffalo, and hand tools too, …
Tourists eager to try exotic meat and buy wildlife souvenirs in Laos are helping destroy the country's natural heritage. The consequences for both people and environment are worrying, reports Dawn Starin
… and not-so-young foreign tourists at prices totally incomprehensible to many of the … a group of local men drinking homemade rice whisky from a communal pot through long … Dutch travellers sat down to a meal of local rice whisky, sticky rice, fried morning glory …
The Danes might not like it much but marmite is one British institution that’s worth keeping. Here's why, love it or hate it, marmite is an eco-friendly essential
… other foods the B vitamins occur in are brown rice, whole wheat, molasses and soya beans, …
Ladakh is framed by the Karakoram mountains to the north and the Himalayas to the south. Yet even in this remote environment the forces of global consumerism are intruding. Nicola Graydon reports on the locals' inspiring defence of their culture
… the story is very different. Subsidised rice, sugar, wheat and other foodstuffs, … diet and, more importantly, undercutting the price of locally harvested produce. A … flour, for instance, sells for half the price of local flour and is destroying the …
Raw foodism is becoming increasingly popular. Advocates report high energy levels and less need for sleep. But is it a healthy way for everyone to eat, asks Hazel Sillver
… foods, such as black beans (2½ hours) and rice ‘congee’ (3-6 hours). The raw …
Raw foodism is becoming increasingly popular. Advocates report high energy levels and less need for sleep. But is it a healthy way for everyone to eat, asks Hazel Sillver
… foods, such as black beans (2½ hours) and rice ‘congee’ (3-6 hours). The raw …
Growing your own food can go beyond fruit and veg if you have space and the right soil. Read on for Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott's guide to grain crops
… whisky industries, where it fetches a good price. If you want to grow barley in your field … which is very good as a staple instead of rice or potatoes. There was a trend a few … readers can buy the book at the special price of £14.99 inc free p&p (UK mainland …
If you 'deskfast' with sugary, fat-filled cereal bars instead of eating a good breakfast you could be doing untold damage to your body and mind. By Pat Thomas
… in its breakfast cereals; but it’s Pop-Tarts, Rice Krispies Squares and Nutri-Grain bars may …
Matilda Lee meets the Estée Lauder of natural make-up, Terre d’Oc’s Valerie Roubaud, to find out why natural cosmetics are ready to take on the conventional kind
… golden eye shadows, while Japanese women use rice powder to achieve a porcelain complexion … back. By that I don't mean paying a good price for their ingredients but giving more. …
The economic and climate-related impacts of forest destruction are well known, but continued logging could unleash devastating new pandemics and spread fatal diseases into the human population, scientists tell the Ecologist
… reservoir from wild animals to domestic dogs. Rice paddies in the Amazon have led to an …
With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic
… lease of half a million hectares to grow rice for consumption in India. Concerned at …
Palm oil is a key ingredient in everything from cereal, biscuits and margarine to shampoo, lipstick and toothpaste. Unless we curb our desire for it critical forests and wildlife habitat will be gone forever, says Dan Bucknell
… that can – and do – wash away whole schools, rice fields and villages. We are urging …
Despite being an economic success, prawn farms built in Brazil's mangroves have displaced natural ecosystems and the coastal communities which rely on them, says Kennedy Warne in an exclusive extract from 'Let Them Eat Shrimp'
… shrimp farms. Ponds crowd the landscape like rice paddies. Paddle-wheel aerators froth the … health and whole ecosystems are paying the price. The Ecologist Film Unit investigates …