August 1999

The True Cost Of Food

A new report into  'The True Cost of Food', released by Greenpeace and the Soil Association,  calls for a ban on GM and  a phase-out of industrialised farming. The report looks at the real cost of industrialised farming in terms of human health, animal welfare, and the environment and exposes this vision of agriculture as fundamentally flawed. It claims that current Government policy embraces irresponsible short-term priorities, missing out on the huge commercial potential of modern organic farming.

The remote volcanic islands had an active parliament, called the M&Otilded, for hundreds of years until its population was evacuated in 1931. Every morning the men of the island would gather in the cobbled street of the main island to decide on their work for the day and to exchange gossip about the latest visitors to the island. Work would have to be postponed until the following day if, as frequently happened, discussions continued into the afternoon without resolution.

Major DIY stores, supermarkets, and trade retailers are committed to the FSC standard which is supported by Greenpeace, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and other environmental groups.

As an active consumer you should:

No New Oil

1999-08-10

Climate change dictates that we cannot meet our energy needs by tapping new supplies of fossil fuels. We need to phase out the use of oil, coal and gas and make a switch to clean renewable energy.

If we are to prevent dangerous levels of climate change we cannot afford to burn more than one-quarter of the global oil reserves. The search for new oil reserves is not just illogical, it is insane. Any new oil found would simply add to the stockpile of oil we can never safely use.