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The following selection of sites provides information on organic and
sustainable agriculture and related issues. If you know of one that you think we
should include (or exclude!), please email: info1@planorganic.com
News Sites Health/Food
Safety Education/Research
Government
Finance Activists
GM Food
Certification
Reference
Others
NEWS SITES
www.ngin.org.uk
Norfolk Genetic Engineering Network (NGIN) are one of the most productive and
up-to-date news services on the web in their specialist area. Their free
Newsletter subscription will get you several emails a day covering the main breaking
stories - on GM issues primarily. Their news' reports on organic and sustainable
agriculture and related issues, though less frequent, are invariably the first.
Email; ngin@icsenglish.com
www.bbc.co.uk Huge archive. Search, Organic Farming,
finds 4,990 documents; Organic Food, 19,500; Alternative Agriculture, 4,889;
Sustainable Agriculture, 3,113. www.lycos.com/ens
Environmental News Service of the Lycos search-engine site is always necessary
reading.
www.guardianunlimited.co.uk.
The Guardian (UK) and Observer newspaper site have good, archive-search
facilities, which lead to some first-class articles on food production and food
safety issues.
www.independent.co.uk
Use Search to find articles on organic
farming/food.
ww.organicts.com
"The Organic Industry Portal on the
Web". Its UK, European and world organic news coverage is very comprehensive.
The weekly Newsletter from Organic Trade Services
is an absolutely must-have for the serious organic journalist/researcher. It
charges a very modest £30.00 per year for this superb service - a
fraction of what some specialist organic information sites charge for theirs.
Neil Butler is the man in charge there.
www.planetark.org
Planet Ark is an Australian environmental group linked to Reuters Environmental
News Service. They cover world-wide environmental news. Organic news is
occasional.
www.farmersjournal.ie
Weekly, Irish Farmers' Journal, increasingly has organic news and articles.
www.purefood.org
News from the Organic Consumers Association (US).
www.organic-research.com
News, calendar of events, research projects,
education jobs, links etc.
www.ireland.com
Irish Times newspaper. Good search engine leads to quality
articles.
www.just-food.com
Although this company is mainly a general food
industry analyst and consultant it has a good current news section with
occasional organic information. It is educational to hear what it is saying to
the conventional industry about organics; " dazzling growth", etc. You
can glean this from the generous introductions and content lists of its reports.
To get details however you may have to pay up to £10,000-00 per volume e.g.
"From Subculture To Supermarkets – Organic Foods Grow Up", 2 Vols,
presumably aimed at corporate customers. Pity we can’t have access to at least
a precis of contents free.
www.cnn.com
Good search engine for small number of relevant
articles
www.organic-research.com
is mainly an
information resource for practical organic research. But it
often has general news not covered by others. There is a CD offered which gives
access to world-wide research on organics. Monthly, free e-zine well worth
having. Members-only areas on the site.
www.ota.com
The Organic Trade Association has over a thousand, producer, wholesaler, and
processor members in the US, Canada and Mexico. Has some news. Its main mission is to
encourage global sustainability.
www.linksorganic.com Attractive
site but seems to take a long time to get what you want. All news feeds by www.moreover.com.
www.fwi.co.uk
The Farmers Weekly is the largest circulation UK farmers' magazine.
Practically every issue now has organic items.
www.examiner.ie
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HEALTH / FOOD SAFETY
See this wonderful site and believe? www.irishhealth.com
Email: info@irishhealth.comEU,
Health and Consumer Protection, Directorate General, Commissioner David Byrne
(Irish).
Food Safety
Authority of Ireland. Director, Dr. Patrick Wall. Chief Specialist in
Environmental Health, Mr Raymond Ellard. Press Officer, Jane O'Reilly. Email; slally@fsai.ie
Helpline: 1800 33 66 77. www.fsai.ie.
Food Commission
(UK) www.foodcomm.org
Food Standards Agency, (UK). www.foodstandards.gov.uk
European Consumers
organisation, www.beuc.org and www.eurocoop.org
Swedish Consumer
Coalition, www.konsumentsamverkan.se
Cancer Prevention
Coalition, www.preventcancer.com
Prof.Sam S. Epstein, email: epstein@iuc.edu
www.positivehealth.com. See
article, The Benefits of Organic Food.
National Food Safety Data-Base, Univ. Florida, www.foodsafety.org
www.wddty.co.uk This is the, What The Doctors Didn’t Tell You,
site that has been favourably reported. Its panel of widely-experienced doctors
advocate fresh organic produce and point out the medical problems caused by
chemicals in our food. Much quality, free information on the site.
The Herbal Clinic, William Street, Galway, founded by Dr Dilis Clare, also
incorporates an herb shop. Dr Clare strongly advocates an organic diet. She also
suggests we need only three doctors in our lives; Dr Diet, Dr Quiet and Dr
Laughter.
Tel: 091 58326 (Ireland). Email: clareherbs@eircom.net
www.positivehealth.com
Search for article on The Benefits of Organic Food.
BSE/Mad Cow disease and nvCJD are well covered in these sites;
www.mad-cow.org Very
large data base on BSE/nvCJD.
www.purefood.org
has good information on BSE internationally, but especially in the US.
www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/bse/
www.bse.org.uk/ Official govt.
site of the BSE Enquiry
www.bbc.co.uk
Search for BSE - very large archive of
articles.
Check references
in Google to Mark Purdey, the
campaigning British organic farmer, for one alternative, well-researched theory
on BSE. He has put forward a strong case for BSE being caused by the weakening effects on animals' neurological systems
by the use of the organophosphate,
Phosmet, in warble fly treatment.
There are now more than 175,000 sites on
BSE on the Web.
www.fluoidefree.com
is an Irish based group campaigning against fluoride in water supplies.
Canadian Government Report Questions Value Of Water
Fluoridation, dated 23 April '01.
http://www.e-dental.com/content/news/article.asp
?DocID={2F4410D3-37D6-11D5-A770-00D0B7694F32
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GM FOOD
www.ngin.org.uk
and http://ngin.tripod.com
Norfolk Genetic Information Network - the thorn in the side of the ABC*s; fresh news from all over the world on the
doings of the GM industry. Alex Avery, of the pro-GM Hudson Institute, warns;
"Personally, I don’t believe anything that comes from NGIN". Judge
for yourself. Their newsletter is an absolute must for the serious activist,
researcher, student or journalist.
*ABC is an acronym for; Agricultural Bio-technology Corporations.
www.cropchoice.com
is concerned with the ethics and risks of genetic engineering.
www.percyschmeiser.com Mr
Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer recently prosecuted by Monsanto who has
become an articulate celebrity speaker for the anti-GM movement.
www.corpwatch.org Holds corporations
accountable. Explains, Greenwash, Bluewash and Sweatwash!
www.corporatewatch.org.uk
Keeps a close eye on large corporations particularly in the GM industry.
www.biogene.org Swiss, Research
Institute of Organic Agriculture and the German, Institute of Applied Ecology.
www.infoxgen.com Information on Genetic Engineering and Organic Farming
www.nytimes.com
An article published in the New York Times, 25th Jan.’01,
Biotechnology Food: From the Lab to a Debacle, is very revealing of the
inside-government and inside-industry collaboration over standards, research and
marketing of GM products.
www.monsanto.com
The best known of the AgBiotech Corporations
(ABCs). They were at the forefront of promoting GM food. Manufacturers of
Roundup, Roundup- Ready crops, and Terminator Seeds. It’s ex-CEO, Robert
Shapiro, said they were guilty of "condescension or indeed arrogance"
in promoting GM foods. Also
www.monsanto.co.uk. Adele Pollard, Manager of
Public Affairs. This site has details of anti-GM orgs.
www.i-sis.org Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, Director
of ISIS Institute of Science in Society gave evidence against GM Crops to the
New Zealand Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering on Monday, 29th
January, 2001. She explained why "genetic engineering has unleashedan
uncontrollable, self-amplifying process of horizontal gene transfer and
recombination that can sweep across the whole of the living worldwith potentially explosive consequences in terms of creating viruses andbacteria more virulent than nature's worst." She made the case that theterms of the genetic engineering debate have changed. "It is no longer amoratorium that is needed. GM crops are unsafe and unsustainable as wellas immoral. We must abandon GM crops right now, along with intensivecorporate agriculture."
www.purefools.com
You will get this site if you slightly misspell www.purefood.com
It is virulently anti-organic and pro GM. It is conjoined with www.junkscience.com.
www.biotech-info.net
Large independent data-base.
www.biointegrity.org Stephen
M.Drucker, US lawyer, another thorn in the flesh of the ABCs, is founder of the
Alliance for Bio-Integrity. Their motto is - Preserving the safety of our food,
the health of our environment, and the harmony of our relationsip with nature.
www.pbs.org/wgph/harvest/
Find out more about the controversial programme, Harvest of Fear, screened in
US, April, '01.
GENETICALLY
ENGINEERED FOOD - Changing the Nature of Nature, Martin Teitel and Kimberly A.
Wilson, (foreword by Ralph Nader), Park Street Press, Vermont, USA, 2001, IP
14.20.
Thanks to Mrs. Z.
Vallings, organic farmer and activist, New Zealand who sent this list to me. Three * indicate importance of sites.
GENETIC ENGINEERING
Website addresses-
for STUDENTS,
PARENTS & TEACHERS & other HUMANS!
Physicians &
Scientists for the Responsible Application of Science &
Technology http://www.psrast.org/
***
The Freepost AntiGE
Postcard campaign! (in New Zealand, to put pressure on
government) http://nzgefree.nelson.org.nz
Biotech-Info http://www.biotech-info.net/
***
Physicians &
Scientists for Responsible Genetics (NZ) http://www.psrg.org.nz/
Tiki the Penguin GE
links for students ***
http://www.oneworld.org/penguin/genetis/genetics_links.html
GE FREE NZ (in Food
& Environment) http://www.gefree.org.nz
Greenpeace-
including the new edition of the TRUE FOOD guide (how to find
which
manufacturers/food companies are GE free!) (your local Greenpeace
website, will be
more relevant.
http://www.greenpeace.org.nz/truefood
l0 Reasons Not to
Grow GE Crops by Professor E. Ann Clark,
Guelph University,
Canada
http://www.plant.uoguelph.ca/faculty/eclark/l0reasons.htm
***
Risks of GE in
Agriculture by Prof E. Ann Clark
http://www.plant.uoguelph.ca/faculty/eclark/risks.htm
***
Philip J. Regal, PhD
Biologist website
http://biosci.umn.edu/~pregal/biosafety.html
Alliance for
biointegrity-Steven Druker (lawsuit against the FDA for the
premature release of
GE foods without appropriate toxicological tests
against the advice
of the FDA’s own scientific experts)
http://www.biointegrity.org
***
Sustainable
Agriculture, Prof Jules Pretty director Centre for Environment
& Society
University of Essex
http://www2.essex.ac.uk/ces/CES/Jppage.htm
Institute of Science
& Society http://www.i-sis.org/
Crop Choice- info
for farmers http://www.cropchoice.com/
***
Farmpower News
FarmPowerNews@starpower.net
Indigenous Peoples
Against Biopiracy
http://www.niec.net/ipcb/
Natural Law Party
http://natural-law.ca/genetic/geindex.html
and “scientists on
the dangers of GE”:
http://natural-law.ca/genetic/ScientistsonDangers.html
Genetic ID testing
http://www.genetic-id.com/
***
Friends of the Earth
http://www.foe.co.uk/camps/foodbio/index.htm
RAFI (Rural
Advancement Foundation International)
http://www.rafi.org/
NGIN- Norfolk
Genetic Information Newsletter
http://www.ngin.org.uk
GeneWatch
http://www.genewatch.org
and special farmers
information on GE
http://www.genewatch.org/Publications.farmers.htm
http://www.actionbioscience.org/
***
including
“The Ecological
Impacts of Agricultural Biotechnology”
by Miguel A.
Altieri, PhD. (Prof of Agroecology in the Dept of Environmental
Science, University
of California at Berkeley and the General Coordinator
for the United
Nations Development Programme’s Sustainable Agriculture
Networking and
Extension Programme)
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/altieri.html
“Genetically
Modified Foods: Are they a Risk to Human/Animal Health?”
by Arpad Pusztai,
Phd (Senior Researcher at the Rowett Research Institute,
Aberdeen-B.Sc in
Physiology and PhD in Biochemistry- until being sacked
after publishing his
findings on adverse effects from GE potatoes fed to
rats)
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/pusztai.html
***
http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/faculty/jikerrd
U.S. prof involved
in Sustainable Ag
Venerable
environmental group SIERRA CLUB, USA- good section on GE
http://www.sierraclub.org/biotech/
Section on adverse
impacts on the environment from GE crops
http://www.sierraclub.org/biotech/references.asp
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FINANCE
Triodos Bank. Europe's leading ethical bank, " delivering social and
environmental benefits". www.triodos.co.uk
Ethical Financial, Ireland. Email: ethicalfinancial@broker.assurelink.ie
The Ethical Investment Co-Operative, email; greeninvest@gn.apc.org.
www.ecology.co.uk
The Ecology Building Society.
Ethical Investors Group, can be phoned at, 01242 604550.
Barchester Green (UK) are specialists in ethical investment. Tel. 01722
331241.
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OTHERS
www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/ Union of Concerned Scientists
in USA.
www.pan-uk.org
Pesticide Action Network and www.pan-international.org
which represents over 600 orgs.
www.factoryfarming.org. Campaigns
against factory farming and links to animal shelters(US)
www.voice.buz.org
Voice Ireland. Successor to Greenpeace Ireland. Leads campaign for safe,
cleaner water.
www.sierraclub.org
Powerful, venerable (founded, 1892), US,
environmental organisation with over 600,000 members. Strongly influenced the
drastic revision of USDA, National Organic Standards. Carl Pope, its boss,
recently called Ms Gale Norton, Bush’s, Interior Secretary (responsible for
500 million acres of public land and more) "…. A natural disaster".
Search for, Beyond Organic, article by Daniel Imhoff, who argues that organic
should be doing more to conserve wildlife habitats and water rather than going
down a large-scale, mono-cultural route. "We can all cheer the success of
organic farming, but simply eliminating chemical fertilizers and pesticides is
not the last word in farming; its just the beginning." Warren Weber,
long-established Californian, organic farmer.
Slow
food Movement, Italy, www.slowfood.it . Not
necessarily organic but good food from quality craft producers.
The SARD Prize is a $10,000 award given annually to
the best sustainable and rural development project in the world.
www.sard-mallinckrodt.de
Organic breaks can be booked through, www.organicholidays.co.uk
www.earthfirst.com
Earth First is a magazine with15,000 members.
www.organichub.com
a hub, or portal for org. orgs.
www.saveorganic.org
Now out-of-date and describing itself as an
"Archival Site". But still has good material on the history of
agriculture and organic farming.
www.organicgardening.com The
famous gardening magazine site. Huge circulation and long established.
Irish correspondent, Aileen Smiddy, Cork.
www.eco-web.com
is a guide to environmental products and services in some 130 countries.
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Hot links
Peer-reviewed articles supporting organic/sustainable
systems - Scientific
evidence of the benefits of organic food and farming
News; www.organicts.com
Comprehensive and up-to-date organic news from UK, Europe and around the world.
It is the best!
GM News www.ngin.org
and http://ngin.tripod.com
If you are a serious activist, subscribe to their email list which is often first with
organic news too.
Environmental News www.planetark.org
Reuters-supplied, more general environmental news from around the world.
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