By Thomas Bøhn and Marek Cuhra Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health. Quality can be defined as sufficiency of appropriate minerals, vitamins and fats, etc. but it also includes the …
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The Experiment Is on Us: Science of Animal Testing Thrown into Doubt
by Pat Dutt and Jonathan Latham, PhD New scientific research has cast grave doubt on the safety testing of hundreds of thousands of consumer products, food additives and industrial chemicals. Everyday products, from soft drinks …
Continue readingAmerica: Becoming a Land Without Farmers
Evaggelos Vallianatos (Photo Credit: Homini:)) The plutocratic remaking of America has a parallel in the countryside. In rural America less than 3 percent of farmers make more than 63 percent of the money, including government …
Continue readingDesigned to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don’t Work
William Sanjour* Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We have been “reforming” regulatory agencies over and over again, and over and …
Continue readingThe Unsettling of America
Book Author: Wendell Berry Reviewed by Jonathan Latham (The Bioscience Resource Project) In 2002, peasant associations from all over Asia organised an international scientific conference. The motivation for the conference was the fact that peasants …
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