Strange Fruit
A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own.
Archive for the 'food' Category
Manufactured Famine
A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.
The Pleasures of the Flesh
If you care about hunger, eat less meat.
A Cunning Plot
How to grow vegetables without breaking your back
An Agricultural Crime Against Humanity
Biofuels could kill more people than the Iraq war.
The Road Well Travelled
Are we already shutting our minds to the consequences of climate change?
Feeding Frenzy
Why is it still acceptable to eat the endangered large predators of the sea? Read more »
A Lethal Solution
We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet. Read more »
The Water Boom Is Over
Global freshwater supplies could start to determine whether or not we can feed ourselves.
Not Enough Fish in the Sea
Not Enough Fish in the Sea
We need omega-3 oils for our brains to function properly. But where will they come from?
Feeding Crime
If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food
Growing My Own
Boycotting the superstores means taking on five allotments
Feeding Cars, Not People
The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster
Fallen Fruit
An insane European ruling will be the final straw for the English apple
Low Hanging Fruit
The superstores are mopping up the last pockets of resistance
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The Poor Get Stuffed
We cannot feed the world’s livestock and the world’s people.
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Organic Farming Will Feed the World
Astonishingly, it’s more productive than high-tech agriculture
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Feeding the Hunger Machine
The Nuffield Council has produced the most asinine biotechnology report ever written
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Free Trade Fundamentalists
The world is being run by a group of fanatics, who’ll destroy anything for the sake of “free” trade
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Bashing Small Shops
A proposed new tax will make life even harder for the independent foodstore
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Monsanto Sells Hunger
The biotech company threatens Africa with starvation
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America’s Command Economy
The US government is trying to ban organic farming - on both sides of the Atlantic
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Social Engineering
Watch out for Monsanto - this obscure company is trying to take over the foodchain
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Breaking the Foodchain
Tesco is going organic, but this might not be good news
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