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Manuel Conde Cid – Pesticides are still a health risk in Europe

September 16, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Pesticide use continues to grow in Europe despite tougher regulations and its health impact on humans and ecosystems is clear. Manuel Conde Cid is a postdoctoral researcher in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry at the […]

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Mads Gilbert, Dr James Smith, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah – Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing

May 5, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Three physicians who have worked in Gaza since the genocide began write about Israel’s strategy to starve the population. Mads Gilbert is a Norwegian emergency medicine specialist who has made frequent trips to Palestinian refugee […]

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Vicky Bond – Chickens Lack the Most Basic Legal Protection: The Right to Humane Slaughter

September 18, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Chickens may be the most abused animals on the planet. Vicky Bond is a veterinary surgeon, animal welfare scientist, and the president of The Humane League, a global nonprofit organization working to end the abuse of […]

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Audrey Gaughran, Çağrı Çavuş, Vincent Kiezebrink – How Agriculture’s “Big Five” Thrive in Crisis

August 28, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Unrestrained concentration in the agricultural commodity market has allowed a handful of companies to maximise profits during a global food crisis. Audrey Gaughran is the Executive Director of the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations […]

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Tomaso Ferrando – Address the root causes of European farmers’ anger

February 12, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The demands of those on the farmers’ protests are complex, but they all agree that a food system that treats food like any other commodity is a root cause of the problem. Tomaso Ferrando is […]

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Food Production

Floris Visser – ‘Good food is a public good’: Lessons from the Netherlands

August 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Making good food affordable to all requires building a movement, not moralising messages and activist jargon. Floris Visser is the director of Public Food, an organisation working on food justice. Cross-posted from Green European Journal […]

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Climate Crisis

Kelly Macnamara – Researchers: We’ve Underestimated The Risk of Simultaneous Crop Failures Worldwide

July 10, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Simultaneous floods in major food producing regions could seriously undermine global food supply. Published by ‘Science Alert’. Read the article HERE.

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Richard Gregory: Europe has lost over half a billion birds in 40 years. The single biggest cause? Pesticides and fertilisers

June 5, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Destroying Europe’s biodiversity is not just about endangered species – it will ultimately undermine the basis for food production Richard Gregory is honorary professor of Genetics, Evolution & Environment at University College London. Cross-posted from […]

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Euronews: Publicly-owned supermarkets? Left-wing party sparks debate in Spain as food prices soar

May 17, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Podemos is part of the government, so proposing an idea at election time without backing it up with real initiative isn’t great, but at least it’s sparking debate on alternative solutions. Read the article HERE.

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Davi Martins: For a World Without Hunger, We Need Food Sovereignty

April 30, 2023 Ben Wray 0

While the world experiences a major hunger crisis, the 20 largest food corporations returned $53.5 billion to their shareholders in the past two years. Davi Martins is senior campaign strategist for biodiversity at Greenpeace International. […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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