A solution to the livestock sector's reliance on soya animal feed, which is driving deforestation in Argentina and Brazil, could be found by incentivising home-grown alternatives
… UK could cut Amazon soya imports with home-grown peas and beans … to the livestock sector's reliance on soya animal feed, which is driving … The UK could cut its dependency on imported soya in half by encouraging farmers to switch …
It was a bad year for the biotech barons. At a conference in January 1999, the consulting firm Arthur Andersen revealed Monsanto executives’ vision of an ideal future – a world in which natural seeds were virtually all extinct and where commercial seeds were genetically modified (GM) and patented.
… any human has ever eaten them. Soon after GM soya was introduced into the UK, researchers … Yorkshire, reported that allergies to soya had skyrocketed by 50 per cent in a … new one. Both appear to have happened in GM soya. Levels of one soya allergen, trypsin …
Much of our meat and dairy produce is made from animals raised on GM feeds. Alarming new claims suggest that the GM diet is affecting animal health - prompting fears over human safety. Andrew Wasley reports ...
… sprayed on many Genetically Modified (GM) soya and cereal crops to kill weeds and … yields, or used as a desiccant in non-GM soya and other grains used in animal feed. … used on conventional crops, its usage on GM soya and maize is particularly prevalent as …
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports
… News Food And Farming Genetic Modification Soya Meat Livestock Latin America Paraguay EFU Ecologist Film Unit soyafields.jpg Cheap meat has become a way of … is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals …
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence
… News Food And Farming Genetic Modification Soya Meat Livestock Latin America Paraguay EFU Ecologist Film Unit soyafields.jpg Cheap meat has become a way of … is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals …
Cheap meat has become a way of life in much of Europe, but the full price is being paid across Latin America as vast soya plantations and their attendant chemicals lead to poisonings and violence. Andrew Wasley reports
… and environmental devastation in Paraguay’s soya fields Andrew Wasley | 13th October 2009 … Other Food And Farming Genetic Modification Soya Meat Livestock Latin America Paraguay EFU Ecologist Film Unit soyafields.jpg Cheap meat has become a way of …
The Royal Society has form on GM crops, writes the Soil Association - consistently Gung-ho! for the last 20 years, while refusing to engage with critics of the technology or even accept the existence of any problems. Its latest effort represents more of the same, while exposing this once August body to ridicule for its egregious scientific howlers.
… 20, there is a discussion about the use of GM soya in animal feed. The reports suggest that … and dairy products come from animals fed GM soya. However the Royal Society omits much … information, for example that non-GM soya imports to the EU are now increasing, …
Our excessive appetite for meat is taking a heavy toll on the planet, but as Simon Fairlie explains, the arguments used to depict omnivores as environmental super-villains are far too simplistic.
… vegetables, olive oil, tofu, margarine and soya milk. Often a significant proportion of … comes from the meal left over after making soya bean oil – which is more co-product than … or 12 per cent if you discount Amazon soya as well. Another fifth of the FAO’s 18 …
Plant fuels can never meet our current and growing energy needs and, as Robin Maynard reports, adopting a ‘carbohydrate economy’ may prove disastrous for our farmers, our food supply and our future
… bioethanol; while the ever-expanding area of soya-bean plantings, already a leading cause … – mostly illegally – been destroyed to grow soya beans. Going bust Norfolk may seem a long … the flames of that brutal competition. US soya-bean farmers felt the heat last year: …
UK supermarkets led the world in saying 'no!' to GM foods and ingredients, writes Liz O'Neill. But they faltered on GM feeds for pigs, cattle, poultry and fish, with GM soy and corn dominating the UK's non-organic market. Now campaigners are putting the pressure on supermarkets to make their entire supply chains GMO-free for the sake of animal, human and ecological health.
… would now be enjoying non-GM European-grown soya. The new source doesn't currently meet … by poor segregation and the dominance of GM soya and maize but if the supermarkets believe …
Building resilience to flood and drought is all about working with farmers, writes Colin Tudge. Simple things like ploughing across slopes, not up and down them, planting trees, and caring for soils, can make a huge difference in helping rainwater to sink into the ground, not run off. And to make it happen, the government must take a lead.
… or (still less!) on imported cereal and soya. PFLA members are showing that this can …
Thanks to pro-GMO politicans and lobbying by powerful agribusiness interests the UK and other EU countries may soon find supermarket shelves flooded with GM foods, both imported and home grown, writes Linda Kaucher. We must press parliamentary candidates now to defend us from this serious and long-term debasement of our food and farming.
… tonnes of GM animal feed (predominantly GM soya and GM maize) imported into the EU each …
For 40 years Percy Schmeiser grew oilseed rape on his farm in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Usually, he would sow each year’s crop with seeds saved from the previous harvest. In 1998 Monsanto took Schmeiser to court.
… if their neighbours are growing its canola or soya… They are told to inform on their …
Just imagine: gas for your cooking and heating made by composting home-grown British grass, writes Almuth Ernsting. What's not to like? Well, it would need almost all the UK's grassland to match our gas demand, leaving cows and sheep to starve or forcing them into sheds to eat foreign-grown feeds. And methane leakage could easily wipe out any climate benefit.
… livestock farming, including growing soya and other feed, is a major cause of …
British NGOs have objected to two applications for open-air field trials to grow GM crops. One is for a blight-resistant potato that is much less resistant than existing non-GM varieties. The other is an oilseed to be used as fish food whose fatty acid profile has been subject to only 'rudimentary analysis'.
… in current GM crops (eg GM Roundup Ready soya, which contains four genetic elements). …
We can eat a diet including macaroni cheese, chicken curry and fish and chips that is good for people and the planet argues WWF campaigner Duncan Williamson
… comes when we use crops like wheat and soya to feed animals on an industrial scale, …
The UK dairy industry is in crisis, writes Megan Perry, with falling prices forcing many farmers out of business. Smaller, more sustainable farms have been the worst casualties, while the large, intensive producers survive. We must ditch market-driven 'survival of the fittest' attitudes - and recognise both the real costs of intensification, and the true value of traditional farming.
… are also fed more high protein feeds such as soya, which will likely have been grown on …
Wander down the meat aisle of any supermarket and you will find mountains of chicken being sold at unbelievably cheap prices. The real reasons for this cannot be found on the label.
… are often added large quantities of water, soya proteins to restore the texture of meat, …