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WholeFoods “banned” Black Lives Matter masks
Bloomberg reports that Whole Foods Market illegally banned employees from wearing “Black Lives...
Big Data – caution not luddism
Farming is always being urged to modernise. Newer, bigger, faster tractors. Combines that...
Close to half the calories produced in America go uneaten
Americans are wasting enough food for 150 million people a year – more...
Maine’s new right to food’s legal challenges
The Economist reports that earlier this month 61 per cent of voters opted...
Poorest face food crisis amid fertiliser shortage
Svein Tore Holsether, chief executive of Yara International, has told the BBC that...
UN expert seeks accountability over 600 dead Indian protestors
A UN special rapporteur has called for accountability in the heavy-handed response to...
Business can help in the region with the world’s worst emergency: Afghanistan
Responding to the world’s biggest emergency, meet Kate Newton, Deputy Regional Director for...
Indigenous tribes preserve food culture
An NPR audio piece says the origin story of America's Thanksgiving holiday imagines...
Future UK laws to respect the distress and pain of lobsters, crabs and octopuses
Rules around the humane killing of lobsters, crabs and octopuses are expected to...
India’s protesting farmers remain in place
Protesting Indian farmers remained in place over the weekend while their key coalition...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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