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Tag Archives: Pesticides
Locked Down and Locking in the New Global Order
By Colin Todhunter Source: CounterPunch On 12 March, British PM Boris Johnson informed the public that families would continue to “lose loved ones before their time” as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. He added: “We’ve all got to be clear, this … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, police state, Psy-ops, Recession, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Agribusiness, Agrochemicals, Baskut Tuncak, Boris Johnson, coronavirus, Corporate Bailouts, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Dystopia, economic crisis, Economics, environment, Fiona Godlee, Gates Foundation, Global Economy, Glyphosate, Hilal Elver, Housing Crisis, lockdown, Michel Chossudovsky, NHS, Norbert Haring, Pesticides, Peter Hitchens, Peter Koenig, pharmaceutical companies, police state, Poverty, Public Health, Robert J Burrowes, surveillance state, World Bank
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Our Vanishing World: Birds
By Robert J. Burrowes At the beginning of the nineteenth century, it is estimated that the total number of passenger pigeons in the United States was about three billion birds. The bird was immensely abundant, as illustrated by this passage … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Environment, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, war
Tagged Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Dr. Kenneth V. Rosenberg, Ecology, environment, Extinction, habitat destruction, Herbicides, Insects, Neonicotinoids, passenger pigeons, Pesticides, Philosophy, plastics, poaching, psychology, radiation, Socialization, Sociology, Violence, war, wildlife trafficking
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A New Aesthetic
By Damaris Zehner Source: Resilience There are all these good ideas – intensive agriculture, organic farming, permaculture, the local food movement. But why is most food still not grown this way, if it really is better? Why don’t farmers switch … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Labor, Philosophy, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Big Ag, Economics, environment, Farming, Food, Health, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Monocrops, nature, Permaculture, Pesticides, Philosophy, Profit, Round-Up, technology
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Agrochemicals and Institutional Corruption: Pleading with the Slave Master Will Not Set You Free
By Colin Todhunter Source: CounterPunch Environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans and Health Commissioner Vytenis Andruikaitis. As set out below, she asks … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, elites, Environment, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Science, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Agribusiness, Agrochemicals, Agroecology, Big Ag, Biocides, Biodiversity, Cancer, Die-Offs, environment, Gates Foundation, Glyphosate, GM Crops, GMO, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Localisation, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, Neonicotinoids, Pesticides, Roundup, World Bank
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Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?
By Robert J. Burrowes Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start, … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Environment, GMOs, Health, media, Militarization, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Air Pollution, antibiotics, Big Agra, Big Pharma, Climate Change, corporate news, Corporations, Deforestation, Dystopia, Earth, environment, Fracking, Fukushima, Genetic Engineering, geoengineering, Glyphosate, GMOs, Groundwater Contamination, Health, Microwaves, Military, Military Waste, Monsanto, Nanoparticles, Nuclear Waste, Pacific Garbage Patch, Pesticides, Plastic, pollution, Processed Foods, radiation, Soil Contamination, Space Junk, Toxic Waste, Vaccines, Water pollution
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The Stomach-churning Violence of Monsanto, Bayer and the Agrochemical Oligopoly
By Colin Todhunter Source: RINF As humans, we have evolved with the natural environment over millennia. We have learned what to eat and what not to eat, what to grow and how to grow it and our diets have developed … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Neoliberalism, Science, society, Technology
Tagged Agrochemicals, Big Agra, Biocides, Biotech, Corporate Globalization, Ecology, environment, Food System, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Microbiome, Monocrops, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, Pesticides, Public Health
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Sweat Shops, GMOs and Neoliberal Fundamentalism: The Agroecological Alternative to Global Capitalism
By Colin Todhunter Source: Global Research Much of the argument in favour of GM agriculture involves little more than misrepresentations and un scrupulous attacks on those who express concerns about the technology and its impacts. These attacks are in part designed to whip up … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, Neoliberalism, Social Control, society, Technology
Tagged Agribusiness, Agroecology, Big Ag, Biotech, Corporate Globalization, Decentralization, Eric Holtz-Gimenez, Food First, Gates Foundation, geopolitics, GM Agriculture, GMO, Herbicides, Localism, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Organic Food, Pesticides, Poverty, Raj Patel, Sweat Shops, WTO
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