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We’d be the first to admit that the health news over the last month or so has been pretty distressing. As someone who has been campaigning on health and environment issues for 20 years even I had to stop and ask myself  ‘what on earth is happening to us?’ A world awash in chemical toxins, […]

The knives came out immediately in the wake of this week’s study showing that rats fed a lifelong diet of GM maize developed more and bigger breast tumours, as well as kidney and liver dysfunction.  But these comments, mostly from rent-a-quote scientists and web trolls, are too little too late. As we noted in our […]

Rats fed a lifelong diet of one of the best-selling strains of genetically modified maize suffered tumours and multiple organ damage, according to a French study published today. The report which is well-timed to support the Just Label It campaign in the US and inform the vicious battle over Proposition 37 in California, is set […]

A recent report by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) warns of the potential damage to health and to the environment caused by emerging economies in developing nations that are built on ‘chemical intensification’. Between now and 2020 chemical production in North America and Europe is expected to grow by about 25%. Compare this to growth […]

We all like to think that the decisions we make – and those that are made for us – are based on good information, on evidence, on facts. But for anybody who believes in evidence-based medicine this has been a pretty frustrating week. Quietly, and without consultation with relevant bodies, the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products […]

  A short review can’t do justice to the amount of research that has gone into this book. Desrochers and his wife Shimizu have gone all out to make their case for the ‘globavore’ diet; to ground it in their interpretation of the science (there are 46 pages of references) and to make it look […]

We interfere with nature at our peril. Even when we do it with the best intentions. I could be talking about genetic modification. The notion of building better plants by fooling around, in what is actually a very crude way, with life’s building blocks is certainly a good example. But I was actually thinking of […]

The first thing a person usually asks when they consider using herbal medicine or taking supplements for the first time is – “Is it safe?” It’s a reasonable question, and the answer, invariably, is yes. Nevertheless there are amongst us anti-anything-remotely-alternative pundits who make a tidy living out disinformation campaigns (lies to you and me) that […]

People eat it, animals eat it, but just how ‘safe’ is safe when it comes to GM foods? Globally our exposure to GM organisms via food is unquantifiable. In the UK you can’t buy GM foods in the supermarket, but conventionally reared livestock are largely reared on GM feed. As the recent news story that […]

There’s good news and there’s bad news. If you followed the Rio+20 headlines last week and the autopsies of that particular debacle, you’ll already know the bad news. The meeting of global ‘leaders’ was ostensibly to mark 20 years since the historic 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and to discuss how to better […]