Colin Todhunter
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A Hard-Edged Rock: Waging Economic Warfare On Humanity
Why is much modern food of inferior quality? Why is health suffering and smallholder farmers who feed most of the world being forced out of agriculture? → Read More
India’s GM Mustard: An Increasingly Bitter Taste
India’s apex regulatory body, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, recently sanctioned genetically modified (GM) mustard for cultivation. This would → Read More
The Netherlands: Template For Ecomodernism’s Brave New World?
Disaster capitalism and crisis narratives are currently being used to manipulate popular sentiment and push through a set of unpalatable policies that would otherwise lack sufficient political support. These policies are being promoted by wealthy interests that stand to make billions of dollars from what is being proposed. They seek to gain full control of food and how it is produced. Their… → Read More
Who Needs Or Wants GMOs? Not The Public, Not India’s Farmers
Many scientists lobbying for the deregulation of agricultural biotechnology ‘new genomic techniques’ (NGTs) in the European Union have either direct or → Read More
Reimagining Food, Farming And Humanity: Ecomodernism’s Dystopia
These issues have been noted in various articles, reports and papers which are listed on the GMWatch website. Even intended modifications can result in traits → Read More
Millions Suffer As Junk Food Industry Rakes In Profit
“ILSI is insidious… Across the world, ILSI is central to the food industry’s product defence, to keep consumers buying the ultra-processed food, sugary → Read More
India’s GM Mustard And The 30-Year Path To Food Tyranny
A public interest litigation is currently before India’s Supreme Court which challenges the drive to commercialise the growing of genetically modified (GM) → Read More
Agri Biotech Sector Motivated By Monopoly Control And Sacred GMO Cash Cow
A new report by Friends of the Earth (FoE) Europe shows that big global biotech corporations like Bayer and Corteva, which together already control 40% of the → Read More
Dutch Farmers Resisting The Toxic Transition
In recent years, governments have been demonstrating their subservience to their billionaire masters in Big Finance, the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, → Read More
An Engineered Food And Poverty Crisis To Secure Continued US Dominance
In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” in the wake of the crisis in → Read More
From Bill Gates To the Great Refusal – Farmers On The Frontline
Today, many farmers are trapped on chemical and biotech treadmills. They have been encouraged and coerced into using a range of costly off-farm inputs, from → Read More
The Future Of Food? Genetic Engineering, Value Capture And Dependency
The following is an abridged version of the second chapter of the author’s short (free-to-read) e-book Food, Dispossession and Dependency (2022) → Read More
Beware The Prophets Of Doom – Organic Food, Fertilisers And Fossil Fuels
“As oil and gas prices rise so does the price of artificial chemical fertilisers – the lynch-pin of industrial agriculture’s claims to be 'efficient'. In the → Read More
Pouring Poison And Planting Seeds Of Dependency
Do you remember the iconic Union Carbide image from the 1950s or early 1960s? The one with the giant hand coming from the sky, pouring pesticides onto Indian → Read More
Farmers’ Struggle Not Over – Corporate Takeover Of Indian Agriculture Still Looms| Countercurrents
The following is an unpublished transcript of an interview the author did for a UK-based TV channel that covers issues of interest to the worldwide Sikh → Read More
Long COVID – Economic Devastation And Quarter Of A Billion Pushed Into Extreme Poverty
There is a terrifying prospect that in excess of a quarter of a billion more people will fall into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 alone. Without immediate radical action, we could be witnessing the most profound collapse of humanity into extreme poverty and suffering in memory. That is according to Oxfam International Executive Director Gabriela Bucher. She adds this scenario is made more… → Read More
Localization And Local Futures: The Alternative To The Authoritarian New Normal| Countercurrents
‘World Localization Day’ will be celebrated on 20 June. Organised by the non-profit Local Futures, this annual coming together of people from across the world → Read More
From Rachel Carson To Monsanto: The Silence Of Spring
Former Monsanto Chairman and CEO Hugh Grant is currently in the news. He is trying to avoid appearing in court to be questioned by lawyers on behalf of a → Read More
War And A “Hurricane Of Hunger” – Transforming Food Systems
On Monday, 14 March, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a "hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system" in the wake of the → Read More
An Inconvenient Truth: The Peasant Food Web Feeds The World| Countercurrents
In October 2020, CropLife International said that its new strategic partnership with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) would → Read More