First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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The rape of the bee
Altered rapeseed can play havoc with the lives of bees
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The turkey buzzards
Facing resistance to the introduction of <aùc>gmo</aùc>s in the North, business houses are waiting to take advantage of the South, including India, where laws are weak
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Organic facade
There is an attempt to classify <a c>gmo</a c>s as organic foods to jump the curbs being contemplated
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Green protest
The little green men from Earth hate GMOs, and perhaps, there is reason to do so
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In limbo
Will a disaster take place before strong laws are adopted to protect the world against irresponsible introduction of <a c>gmo</a c>s?
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Indecent proposal
In urging free import of zinc ash, which is often contaminated, Planning Commission member G Thimmiah has shown scant respect for the environment
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When the old gods died
From a wooded upland Jhabua became an example of extreme ecological degradation. The story of its recovery is remarkable
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The beetle and the bureaucrat
Eleven lakh sal trees face the axe in order to exterminate a beetle that is boring a hole into the image of the forest bureaucracy
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Hazardous pesticides
The bulk of pesticides used in India are organochlorines which have an immense capacity to persist in the environment and accumulate within living bodies. Pesticides like dichlorodiphenyl
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Crossing the rainbow
With the coming of the Rajiv Gandhi Mission on Watershed Development, a major change took place in the degraded wasteland that was Jhabua