- Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
- Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Climate Change and World Agriculture
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Global warming is exacerbating political instability as tensions brought on by food insecurity rise. With research suggesting the issue can only get worse we examine the risks around the world.
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- Conservation Ontario
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article Published: 2000 The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
- Do Vegetarians Kill More Animals Than Meat Eaters?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 A recent article published by an Australian scientist, however, contends that those who choose to eat all-plant diets are actually responsible for the death of more animals than those who eat them.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- Ecological Imperialism
The Biological Expansion in Europe, 900-1900 Resource Type: Book
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- FAO: Plantations are not forests!
Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The FAO definition considers forests to be basically just 'a bunch of trees', while ignoring other fundamental aspects of forests, including their many other life-forms such as other types of plants, as well as animals, and forest-dependent human communities. Equally, it ignores the vital contribution of forests to natural processes that provide soil, water and oxygen.
- The future is agroecology
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things.
- I was wrong on veganism
Traditional livestock production makes ecological sense Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 An environmental reporter reviews the environmental impacts of meat production in the developed world. He finds that First World meat production is incredibly wasteful but that this is not a requirement of livestock rearing so much as an entrenched practice, and offers suggestions for greening the industry.
- Marx and Nature
A Red and Green Perspective Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy.
- Meeting the Expectations of the Land
Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship Resource Type: Book Published: 1984 Addresses the problems facing agriculture today, such as topsol erosion, lowered water tables, reliance on pesticides, dependence on machinery, the overcapitalization of agriculture, the decline of the rural economy, the energy and dollar cost as well as the health problems associated with commercial fertizlers, the shrinking number of family farms, the increasing dependence on fossil fuels.
- Neonicotinoids are Poisoning Entire Farmland Ecosystems
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The widespread use of neonicotinoid insecticides is causing a neurotoxic overload afflicting entire farm ecosystems from earthworms to bees, other pollinators and birds. A collapse in food production may inevitably follow.
- New generation: Growing up reading Rachel Carson, scientists unravel risks of new pesticides
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Like biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring warned about the devastating effects of DDT, a new generation of scientists is trying to figure out if new pesticides -- which are being used in ever-increasing numbers, quantities, and combinations -- are harming living things theyre not intended to kill, including birds.
- Ontario Farm Animal Council
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Permaculture
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimics the relationships found in natural ecologies.
- Scientists Write: EPA, Ban 'Agent Orange' Herbicide Mix and GMO Crops!
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Thirty-five distinguished scientists urge the US-EPA not to register new mixtures of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate, intended for use on herbicide-tolerant GMO crops. Approval of the herbicide mixtures would endanger both human and environmental health.
- A Short History of Progress
Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
- Sources welcomes the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 The Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the welfare of animals raised for food in Canada through public education, legislative change and consumer choice.
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