Videos: Monsanto and GM

This article shows two videos about Monsanto and genetic modification (GM). The first film is a trailer: The world according to Monsanto, an award winning investigative documentary.  The second video clip is by Greenpeace explaining why biodiversity needs to be protected and why GM as practised by Monsanto (and others, but Monsanto has a 90% share in the market) threatens biodiversity, food security, and sustainable agriculture.

Amazon deforestation slows but concerns remain

One of our previous articles was about the need to save our rainforests. There was some good news yesterday, the Guardian has reported that large scale deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has fallen dramatically last year according to official figures.

On the other hand there are concerns remaining. One of these concerns is about the vested interests lobbying to water down environmental protection laws in Brazil, reported in the Guardian back on the 3rd July. Unfortunately this amendment was approved by a special committee of the Brazilian Parliament (or to be precise, National Congress of Brazil) on the 6th July, as reported by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

In praise of organic food

We have all heard of organic food, food produced with either no or minimal toxic chemicals, food "the way nature intended it to be". Organic food is in fact exactly how humans have eaten for millenia, it is only since the 20th Century that "conventional" food as we know it, involving toxic and polluting synthetic chemicals in the form of pesticides, insecticides, and fertilisers, and ghastly factory farming, all collectively known as intensive farming, have existed. This article explains not only why organic is best, but also suggests where to get organic.

24 hour time on road signs is also needed

We have mentioned the need to go metric in previous articles. What also needs to be done is to use 24 hour time only where time does and should appear on road signs (e.g. No parking between 09:00 and 18:00).  Examples of 24 hour road signs, and other related improvements (such as getting rid of wordy signs) are also shown in this article.