If you don’t live in America you almost certainly haven’t heard about the strong arm tactics of big biotech firms like Monsanto, Novartis and Dupont. Even if you live in the States you might think that genetically engineered food is “gonna save the world”. Well it isn’t. And 90% of Americans want to know whether …
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GMO (genetically modified food) is not good. Don’t assume it is.
Another comprehensive, scientific report on genetic engineering in the food web concludes that it is dangerous, uneconomic and counter-productive. From our perspective as consumers the worst aspect is danger to health. From the producers’ perspective the worst aspect is the prospect of being under the thumb of biotech giants. The report GMO Myths and Truths …
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Sadly, evidence proves privilege breeds corruption.
It is convenient to assume that people without resources are prone to unethical behaviour, especially if you’ve got lots of stuff. You might imagine that someone who lives in a cardboard box is likely to steal, simply because they need to eat. But the opposite is true. If you’ve got the stuff, prepared to be …
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Have we run out of water already?
The review of China’s water supply in The Economist was presented as a sober economic review, as usual. But the information and data is frightening. If disaster isn’t here now, it is certainly here soon. Why? China, which accommodates 10% to 15% of humanity, consumes 400 m3 per person per year which is only a …
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Ocean conditions are ripe for mass extinction
As the government of the richest country in the world bickers over whether or not to give basic healthcare to poor people, the world is dying. The International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) warns of multiple threats the oceans are facing. Overfishing. Too much CO2. Fertiliser run-off coming from rivers. Basically too …
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Roundup (glyphosate) is a broad based biocide
Here’s just one reason Monsanto is in the hot seat. According to Green Medical News: “ . . . “within the scientific community and educated public alike, there is a growing awareness that Roundup herbicide, and its primary ingredient glyphosate, is actually a broad spectrum biocide, in the etymological sense of the word: “bio” (life) …
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Ineptocracy.
“a system of government in which the least capable of leading are elected by the least capable to choosing, and where the members of society least able to produce are rewarded with goods and services paid for by a diminishing number of producers.” Well, whatever its definition, it sounds like an appropriate term for some …
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Facebook, Google and other data grabbers really know you. Really.
Let’s just skip to the meat: Digital records of behavior, Facebook Likes, can be used to automatically and accurately predict a range of highly sensitive personal attributes including: sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political views, personality traits, intelligence, happiness, use of addictive substances, parental separation, age, and gender. That’s just scary, especially when you think …
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The Commonwealth Charter – a good idea
Charter of the Commonwealth We the people of the Commonwealth: Recognising that in an era of changing economic circumstances and uncertainty, new trade and economic patterns, unprecedented threats to peace and security, and a surge in popular demands for democracy, human rights and broadened economic opportunities, the potential of and need for the Commonwealth – …
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Welcome Palestine.
The UN finally agreed that Palestine exists. It has always seemed strange that people had a country taken from them so that immigrants could move in. That has been somewhat rectified by at last admitting that Palestine exists, and so therefore do Palestinians. Let us hope that this is a step towards living together in …
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