Must be followed by the Great Detoxification if we are to survive as a species. The Mass Poisoning of Society For the last 140 years, coal-fired power plants have spewed mercury into the air, water, and soil — and it then makes its way up the food chain into larger and larger animals. American cities […]
Pesticides
The End Of Cheap Food by Charles Hugh Smith
Global food production rests on soil and rain. Robots don’t change that. Of all the modern-day miracles, the least appreciated is the incredible abundance of low cost food in the U.S. and other developed countries. The era of cheap food is ending, for a variety of mutually reinforcing reasons. We’ve become so dependent on industrial-scale […]
Ignore The Prophets Of Doom – Organic Food Can Feed The World by Colin Todhunter
The EU’s ‘farm to fork’ strategy advocates for at least a 20% reduction in synthetic fertiliser use by 2030 and at least a 50% reduction in pesticides. This has come under fire from the US government and its cronies in the agrochemical sector who forward tired and discredited arguments that this will fuel hunger and […]
US Supreme Court Declines Bayer Bid To Challenge Glyphosate Cancer Rulings by Sustainable Pulse
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid from Bayer-owned Monsanto that aimed to challenge thousands of lawsuits claiming its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer – a potentially costly ruling, AFP reported Tuesday. The high court did not explain its decision, which left intact a $25 million ruling in favor of a California […]
Trillions In Government Subsidies Are Driving Ecosystem Collapse, Species Extinction by Beyond Pesticides
Together, governments of the world over are spending at least $1.8 trillion annually — 2% of global gross domestic product — on subsidies that drive the destruction of ecosystems and species extinction, and exacerbate the climate crisis. This news comes from a study commissioned by The B Team and Business for Nature, and released in […]
Living In Epoch-Defining Times: Food, Agriculture And The New World Order by Colin Todhunter
Farmerless farms manned by driverless machines, monitored by drones and doused with chemicals to produce commodity crops from patented genetically engineered seeds for industrial ‘biomatter’ to be processed and constituted into something resembling food. Data platforms, private equity firms, e-commerce giants and AI-controlled farming systems. This is the future that big agritech and agribusiness envisage: […]