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This video from Green Party MP Keith Locke says it all.

In a gloriously hypocritical about-face, the Business Roundtable announced today that a carbon tax would be better for business and the environment. In today’s Orwellian press release; Saving the Planet Must Not Cost the Earth, Kerr paints the Australians as having spent considerably more time than we have in evaluating their version of the ETS […]

Pretty. Sad. Pretty sad.

National Radio had an item on the rising price of bread this morning. Much of the reason given was droughts in Australia and overseas use of crop land for biofuels. Now, bread should be something that we are able to supply relatively easily. After all it’s mostly made from things we should be […]

I alluded, in an earlier post, to the legal battle between small Canadian farmer, Percy Schmeiser, who was being sued by Monsanto for having round-up ready canola on his land without having paid for them. It seems that Schmeiser did win a law case after all. It wasn’t the 1998 case for which […]

The story that climate change may not be to blame for the widespread deaths and looming extinction of South and Central America’s harlequin frogs caught my attention for the obvious reason. But I draw it to you attention for this quote at the end of the story from Australian biologist, Ross Alford:
“Arguing about whether […]

Celsias reports that the world’s non-genetically engineered food crops are rapidly being contaminated as seeds from GE crops blow around on the wind and snuggle up into plantations where they were never welcome.

As a result of genetically contamination of non-GMO crops in Europe, the U.S., Mexico, Australia and South America, the biotech food […]