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Farmer
Steve against GM
giants
Western Australian
farmer Steve Marsh's trial begins on the 10th of
February. In 2010 Steve lost
his organic certification when GM canola from
next door jumped the fence and contaminated 70%
of his farm. In a world first, he is suing his GM
neighbour for damages. If he wins he not only protects
his right to grow clean GM-free organic food, he
also protects our rights to eat GM-free foods.
> See Vid
> See Global
mail article >Support Steve.
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Journeying
towards ZERO WASTE
Imagine
no plastic bags, no food packaging, no disposable
coffee cups, no little plastic produce bags, no
wasted carrot tops or mouldy leftovers. It's possible!
Sustainable Table
have launched a Pozible crowd-funding
campaign to produce a short documentary
about waste and waste-free eating. Singer Jack Johnson
is helping out. You
can too! |
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inspired to take your own journey towards zero waste
with these 'plastic-free' stories:
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Angora
cruelty in China
Huge clothing
retailer, H&M, ceased production of all its angora
products last week, in response to horrific video
footage released by PETA
that shows rabbits screaming in pain as their fur
is torn off at angora farms in China. Sadly, clothing
retailer Zara is refusing to do the same - there
are 60 angora items for sale on the Zara website.
> See Guardian
article (16/12/13) > Sign PETA
petition & SumOfUs
petition > See Shop Ethical! Clothing
edition |
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Goodies for Christmas!
What
is Santa's carbon Footprint?
Just
look at these disturbing
calculations!
Gift
giving this Christmas? Do
it with a difference by making a difference. Check
out great gift
(and non-gift) ideas at our Ethical
Christmas Guide.
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Some beauties available
from our online
shop are the 2014 Supermarket pocket-guide (discounts
for bulk orders); People & Planet calendars
and diaries; Fregie Sacks; and great books such
as The Chemical Maze, The Sustainable Seafood Guide,
Seasonal Regional, and the Locavore Guide. Your
purchases will help support our work, and
at the same time equip your friends and family to
walk the talk. ...You might want to Gift our Shop
Ethical! iPhone app. Here's
how.
If you're looking
for a clothes purchase, see Oxfam’s “Naughty
or Nice” Christmas list showing which Australian
retailers have signed the Bangladesh Fire and Building
Safety Accord.
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Quick
bites ...
- For
Shop Ethical! iPhone app
users on iOS 7, apologies for the
present glitch that means you can't
access the updated clothing data.
We're working on a solution.
- The
proposed acquisition of Archer
Daniels Midland's $2bn cocoa business
by Cargill
(the world’s largest agricultural
trader) will create a duopoly in global
cocoa processing, giving Cargill over
35% market share. Swiss group Barry
Callebaut – which bought the cocoa
division of Singapore’s Petra Foods
in 2012 – holds 25%. (8/10/13) Reuters
- Uzbekistan
has stopped the systematic use of
children under grade 9 in cotton harvesting
(28/11/13) Baptist
World Aid. More about Uzbek
Cotton.
-
In a welcome (and suprising) move,
Treasurer Joe Hockey has rejected
US agribusiness giant Archer
Daniels Midland's $3.4 billion
bid to takeover eastern Australia's
biggest grain handler, GrainCorp (29/11/13)
The
Land
- NSW
Fair Trading is calling for the development
of a binding national standard for
‘free range’ eggs under Australian
Consumer Law, saying that current
egg classification rules are unclear
and open to various interpretations.
(9/12/13) AusFood
News
- If
you like our updates, you may be interested
to sign up to 'Otter'
eNews, produced by a similar (but
different) group to ours, operating
from Sydney. Worth a look!
“There
are no sacred and unsacred places; there
are only sacred and desecrated places.
My
belief is that the world and our life
in it are conditional gifts.
We
have the world to live in on the condition
that we will take good care of it."
Wendell Berry, acclaimed agrarian
poet, writer, and farmer, discusses
a sensible, but no-compromise plan
to save the Earth, in a wonderfully
inspiring recent interview
by Bill Moyers.
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