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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Book Authors: T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Thomas M. Campbell II Reviewed by Allison Wilson (The Bioscience Resource Project) What will it take for veggie stir-fry on rice to replace a beef burger on a …
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Book Author: Robyn O’Brien (with Rachel Kranz) Reviewed by Jonathan Latham (The Bioscience Resource Project) Allergies and food intolerances are serious medical conditions. They are the cause of many deaths and hospitalizations annually and they …
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Traditional science as practiced in European and US universities is being confronted on many sides. These challenges are manifested in the rise of alternative medicine and patients groups, well-publicised failures and ethical lapses, criticism from environmental groups and declining student interest in many science subjects. To make matters worse, there is an increasingly cogent intellectual critique of scientific infallibility, objectivity and disinterestedness.
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Over the last ten years however a rough consensus has emerged among a large number of family farm groups, academics, economists, trades unions and development organisations that trade liberalisation in the food sector (via the WTO and other free trade agreements) is achieving the precise opposite.
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A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement
Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today
Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA