Toxin Contagion – Funds, Food and Pharma
Colin Todhunter … Small farmers produce up to 80% of the food in the non-industrialised countries. However, they are currently squeezed onto less than a quarter of the world’s farmland. The period 1974-2014 saw 140 million hectares – more than all the farmland in China – being taken over for soybean, oil palm, rapeseed and sugar […]
Gene Drive Organisms: A New Dimension of Genetic Engineering – Applications, Risks and Regulation
Volker Henn and Mareike Imken (stop-genedrives.eu) Enabled by new genetic engineering techniques such as CRISPR/Cas9, so-called gene drives have been developed in recent years that enable humans to spread new genes throughout the genome of wild animal populations. Gene drives force the inheritance of newly introduced genes to be inherited by all offspring, even if […]
False Solutions That Endanger Our Health and Damage the Planet: The Corporate Push for Synthetic Foods
Navdanya International How can we heal our relationship with food in the age of artificial food? In response to the crises in our food system we are witnessing the rise of technological solutions that aim to replace animal products and other food staples with lab-grown alternatives. Artificial food advocates are reiterating the old and failed […]
