The herbicide to GM merry-go-round undermining our food supply Glyphosate has recently been in the news since a worker in San Francisco was awarded a US$289-million verdict against Monsanto for causing his non-Hodgkin's lym - phoma. The verdict was based on evidence from the 2016 review by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, which identified exposure to glyphosate as a 'probable carcinogenic' activity.
The core of life on Earth is the daily requirement of food for people and all living organisms in webs of life, or ecosystems. These natural, self-organising ecosystems, which have provided food for millennia, are increasingly being taken apart—by ecological destruction and changing climates caused by ever increasing world population; industrialisation, including food production using […]
The core of life on Earth is the daily requirement of food for people and all living organisms in webs of life, or ecosystems. These natural, self-organising ecosystems, which have provided food for millennia, are increasingly being taken apart - by ecological destruction and changing climates caused by ever increasing world population; industrialisation, including food production using cheap oil; deforestation; and urbanisation - all driven by economic growth and consumerism, and all affecting the health…
