Category Archives: Environmental Issue

Meanderings on Supermarket Duping, Reading Labels and Eating Simply

Posted on February 10, 2013 by patric

By now you will all have heard about the “horse meat” scandal still unfurling all over Europe. Though there is nothing wrong with horse meat (in fact it’s leaner, sweeter, tender, low in fat and higher in protein than beef) … Continue reading →

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Monsanto Unmasked!

Posted on January 30, 2013 by patric

A European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientist has just discovered that major GM crops and products the regulatory agency has been approving for commercial release over the past 20 years contain a potentially dangerous virus gene. Sounds familiar? Read the … Continue reading →

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Big Oil Still Attempts to Destroy World’s Most Biodiverse Rainforest

Posted on December 27, 2012 by patric

I have walked in a few rainforests in my lifetime, mostly in Australia and Indonesia. I would never forget the time I spent trekking through the majestic Kakadu National Park trails and being entranced by the amazingly luscious layers of … Continue reading →

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Foraging: Living Off the Fat of the Land

Posted on December 7, 2012 by patric

Noun 1. foraging – the act of searching for food and provisions. The prices of staple foods such as rice & wheat could stay high for the next three years, hindering the battle against poverty, a top World Bank official … Continue reading →

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Murdoch Does a Houdini!

Posted on September 21, 2012 by patric

Ever since the discovery that journalists on the News of the World had been hacking cell phone messages, Rupert Murdoch, now entering his ninth decade, is still firmly in control of his media empire while facing the biggest crisis of … Continue reading →

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The Big Drought

Posted on August 25, 2012 by patric

The end is nigh! Well not quite but we are nearing the point of no return if politicians keep sitting on the climate change fence in this US election year! In the summer of 2012, scorching heat and no rain … Continue reading →

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The Mighty Tomato vs Monsanto

Posted on August 17, 2012 by patric

As with the humble potato, it’s hard to think that such a widely-used food source was once considered deadly poisonous (up until the end of the eighteenth century, physicians warned against eating tomatoes, fearing they caused not only appendicitis but … Continue reading →

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The Times, They-Are-A-Climate-Changing

Posted on August 6, 2012 by patric

So you think climate change is not quite yet the premier issue of our time?This is a timely piece on Lynas’s 2008 book Six Degrees: Our Future On A Hotter Planet. Timely because our friend Paul Krugman posted a must … Continue reading →

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Droughts, Crops Failures & Republican Dystopia

Posted on July 31, 2012 by patric

A summer of drought and wildfires has dramatically hit crops across the USA this year, which will undoubtedly lead to a dramatic price rise on the international commodity markets resulting with a knock-on effect in higher prices of consumer goods. … Continue reading →

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The Other Hunger Games

Posted on May 19, 2012 by patric

In an increasingly globalized world, it’s still sometimes shocking to see just how disparate our lives are compared with other human beings around the world. A book of photographs by Peter Menzel called “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats” (“©Peter … Continue reading →

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