Europe's pesticide cocktail in food:
PAN report on shocking levels of pesticide residue in EU food.
New superbug worries
New calls for limits on livestock antibiotic use.
Slow down on biofuels
The introduction of biofuels into the UK transport and industry sectors should be slowed down, says a new report from the Government’s Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA).
Fight back on GM trade in Brazil
Brazilian farmers and traders launch non-GM crop body
The long arm of GM contamination
Fears of serious, long distance contamination of organic farms by GM crops appear top be borne out by an incident in central France
Sterile cul de sac of GM crops
A big, new push is under way from bioscience companies to promote their GM crops on the back of global worries about food shortage and high prices. To arms, to arms, a new approach is needed from the organic sector to fight this move.
Wise words from Hilary Benn:
The world needs a new “fair food” agreement and more reliance on sustainable farming systems to meet the twin challenges of starvation and climate change. That was the central message from Defra Secretary of State Hilary Benn in a speech to the Fabian Society in London.
Something fishy
The Center for Food Safety in the United States has sent letters to the top state law enforcement officials of 49 states, urging them to take action against the misleading practice of labeling seafood imports as “organic.”
Fresh pandemic worries for H5N1
Alarm about a possible human H5N1 flu pandemic has resurfaced on news wires and across the media after fresh evidence that avian flu, circulating in poultry in the Far East, can be transmitted from person to person.
ORC Conference proceedings
Full proceedings from The Organic Research Centre’s December 2007 producer conference, hosted in collaboration with Organic Inform, are now available online.