Or Myanmar, depending on which side of the military regime you find yourself. If like the companies below you support the regime, enjoy your visit to Myanmar. If not, please boycott Burma.
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After years of failing to make its modified products do its bidding, the biotech industry is changing tack – now its modifying the protestors. Jonathan Matthews reports from South Africa
… America, India, Australia and Israel. In the UK The Times ran a commentary entitled ‘I do … perpetuate poverty and hunger’. A powerful rebuke, no doubt. But if anyone deserves the cow …
Last month the Food Standards Agency declared that eating organic chickens increases risk of campylobacter poisoning. So what?
… Egg Information Service (BEIS) www.britegg.co.uk The BEIS claims that beak-trimming is … and 78 per cent think it should be banned. UK Egg Stats 2001 Market value: £920 million … 5–7 years, but can live up to 20 • UK; 2001: 805 million broilers were …
Measure for measure, GDP is the world’s hidden accounting scandal, the one that neither governments nor media will touch. Jonathan Rowe asks why we worship such a false idol
… better off. Or do we? Another study, from the UK, found that shopping, which is the driving …
As the people of Argentina are driven by economic collapse to the point of starvation, a new solution is being imposed upon them. Ben Backwell reports on a country being force fed genetically modified soya designed not for humans, but for cattle
Soya Republic Ben Backwell | 1st February 2003 News Gm Soya Argentina Genetically Modified Biotech Agribusiness Biotechnology Agribusiness Soya Biotechnology Gm Products Soya Farming Organics …
Ros Coward reports from Murcia in southern Spain, the driest place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water supplies and causing a growing environmental crisis.
… profits made from the property boom in the UK to buy here. You can let it out when you … supplies all-year-round vegetables for UK supermarkets. The supermarkets claim they … They are grown in Spain exclusively for the UK. The Spanish haven’t a clue what a parsnip …
Russia’s zapovedniks are some of the world’s most pristine wildernesses. For 70 years they were protected ruthlessly by the Soviet system, but recently they have fallen prey to Putin, the World Bank and ecotourists. Paul Webster reports on their plight
The Wild Wild East: Russia's Zapovedniks Paul Webster | 1st February 2003 News Russia Wilderness World Bank Ecotourism International Development International Development Consumerism World Bank …
Twice as expensive as petrol, three times the price of milk, and 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. Is it worth it, and what impact is it having on our environment?
Bottled Water The Ecologist | 1st February 2003 News Water Nestle Perrier Danone Tap Water International Trade Water Conservation Clean Water Fresh Water Water Supplies Water Sources Plastics …
Navy vs the Whales. They have the most mysterious and beautiful songs in the natural world. But now they are dying, drowned out by the deafening roar of Western navies’ new sonar devices.
… Military Whales Military Military Coastal UK US Animal Rights Species Extinction …
It swam the oceans when dinosaurs walked the earth. Now our hunger for tuna means the Pacific leatherback turtle could be extinct within 10 years.
100,000,000 years old… 10 years left to live Robert Ovetz | 1st March 2003 Other Sea Turtle Longlines Leatherback Tuna Swordfis Fishing Crisis Natural World Archive_53.jpg It swam the oceans when …
The world lives under oil’s spell. Jeremy Smith reveals the extent to which the industry’s by-products have permeated our lives.
This product contains Oil Jeremy Smith | 1st April 2003 News Oil Industry Oil By-products Oil Dependency Oil US Society The world lives under oil’s spell. Jeremy Smith reveals the extent to which the …
War on Iraq is about a lot more than boosting oil companies’ profits. It’s the latest battle in the ongoing war over who gets to control the earth’s remaining energy reserves. By Lutz C Kleveman.
… to lose in Iraq. In 1997 Russian oil giant Lukoil signed a contract with Saddam to develop … partnership’ in which Russian oil giants Lukoil and Yukos would directly deliver their Siberian oil …
We are all about to pay the price of ignoring the coming energy famine. By David Fleming
… The warning came again in a paper by the UK Department of Energy in 1976, and in the … turning point was local: production from the UK North Sea passed its peak; it is now … accessible total has gone; in the case of the UK North Sea, however, compressors have been …
Myth Number 5: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IS EFFICIENT
Bigger But Not Better Andrew Kimbrell | 1st April 2003 News Industrial Farming Agriculture Local Economy Community Small Farms EU Farming Agribusiness Animal Husbandry Factory Farming Agribusiness …
Why do we dispose of organic waste in landfill sites? Shouldn’t we – individuals, councils and businesses – all be using worms to compost it? By Janis Crawford.
Global Worming Janis Crawford | 1st April 2003 Ethical Living Composting Worms Gardening Landfill Landfills Community Recycling Green Living Waste And Recycling Archive_78.jpg Why do we dispose of …
The world lives under oil’s spell. Jeremy Smith reveals the extent to which the industry’s by-products have permeated our lives.
… to lose in Iraq. In 1997 Russian oil giant Lukoil signed a contract with Saddam to develop … partnership’ in which Russian oil giants Lukoil and Yukos would directly deliver their Siberian oil …
Dirty deals between the European Commission and Ireland have enabled the world’s biggest trawler to plunder African fish stocks.
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Concerned for the future of the planet? Wait till you hear about the Project for the New American Century. By William Rivers Pitt.
Be Afraid... William Rivers Pitt | 1st April 2003 News American Politics Project For The New American Century Human Rights US Politics And Economics Investigates_9.jpg Concerned for the future of the …
Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that few can afford. But in Mexico City a group of impoverished street punks are pioneering radical social alternatives because their survival depends on it. Holly Wren reports.
… kilometres – eight times the area of the UK, and the third largest country in Latin …