Get the Truth About GM Foods: GMWatch

16Feb10

Keep up to date with the latest news on the issue of genetically modified (GM) food and crops and find out about the deceptive PR campaigns being used to promote GM worldwide. Check out GMWatch on Facebook.

Filed under: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), CSR, Ethics, GMOs   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: Food, genetic engineering, genetically modified organisms, GMOs, LMOs, nonprofit

Respect Farmworker Rights, Chipotle!

27Jun09

Last week, leaders of the food justice movement — – including Eric Schlosser and Robert Kenner, producer and director of the hard-hitting new documentary ‘Food, Inc.’ — sent a strongly worded letter to Chipotle, the fastest growing company in fast-food, demanding that they live up to its claims of ‘Food with Integrity’ and ‘work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as a true partner in the protection of farmworkers’ rights.

Filed under: Agriculture, CSR, Ethics, Ethnic Agriculture, Food, Food Justice, Food Sovereignty, Global/World   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: Eric Schlosser, farmworker, Food, Food Justice, human rights, immokalee, labour rights, migrant labour, rights, Robert Kenner

Factory Farming Is Among Top 8 Killers

12May09

Taxpayers are demanding that government enforce existing regulations and create more stringent rules to limit the excess and greed in banking, insurance, housing, and on Wall Street. But, in the rush to regulate, we can’t forget to oversee industrial agriculture. It is one of our most polluting and dangerous industries. Like the financial sectors, its practices have not been well regulated for the last thirty years. Let me run down a few of the major problems that have developed because of our poorly regulated U.S. agriculture.

Filed under: Agriculture, CSR, Environment, Food Sovereignty, Health and Wellness, sustainability   |  3 Comments
Tags: Agriculture, Burger King, chemical, CSR, Environment, factory, farming, industrial, KFC, McDonald's, pollution

Popular kid’s bath products contain toxic chemicals: Study

05Apr09

Many popular children’s bath products on the market contain the cancer-causing chemicals formaldehyde or 1,4-dioxane, a study has found.

Filed under: CSR, Environment, Ethics, Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Personal Care   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: baby, bath, children, Environment, healthy living, kid, organics, poison, safety, toxin