Chemical Industry Archives - CNCL https://cncl.info/tag/chemical-industry/ Centre for Nonviolence & Conscious Living Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:13:30 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://cncl.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-CFN_Logo_Black_on_White-512x512-32x32.jpg Chemical Industry Archives - CNCL https://cncl.info/tag/chemical-industry/ 32 32 The Collapse of Industrial Farming https://cncl.info/earth/the-collapse-of-industrial-farming/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-collapse-of-industrial-farming https://cncl.info/earth/the-collapse-of-industrial-farming/#respond Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:13:30 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=227177 The most upending event of the past 10,000 years is the advent of engineered food as fermentation farms displace factory farms. “We are on the Cusp of the Fastest, Deepest, Most Consequential Disruption of Agriculture in History.”

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]]> https://cncl.info/earth/the-collapse-of-industrial-farming/feed/ 0 Dangerously Awash in Chemicals https://cncl.info/earth/dangerously-awash-in-chemicals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dangerously-awash-in-chemicals https://cncl.info/earth/dangerously-awash-in-chemicals/#respond Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:44:14 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=227125 Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

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]]> https://cncl.info/earth/dangerously-awash-in-chemicals/feed/ 0 Factory Farms Destroy Ecosystems https://cncl.info/earthlings/factory-farms-destroy-ecosystems/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=factory-farms-destroy-ecosystems https://cncl.info/earthlings/factory-farms-destroy-ecosystems/#respond Fri, 25 Feb 2022 21:18:29 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=227028 Factory farms are the Grim Reapers of civilization, inhumanely penning up and slaughtering cows, pigs, and chickens by the tens of millions, as well as unintentionally, but effectively, poisoning, maiming and/or killing birds, insects, amphibians, mammals, and crucial life-supporting ecosystems that are key to human life. And, it’s legal.

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]]> https://cncl.info/earthlings/factory-farms-destroy-ecosystems/feed/ 0 Toxic Chemicals Engulf the Planet https://cncl.info/earth/toxic-chemicals-engulf-the-planet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toxic-chemicals-engulf-the-planet https://cncl.info/earth/toxic-chemicals-engulf-the-planet/#respond Mon, 14 Jun 2021 10:06:16 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=226643 Worldwide chemical emissions are six times global warming emissions. This hidden dilemma is fully exposed in a superbly researched new book by science writer Julian Cribb: Earth Detox, How and Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet.

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]]> https://cncl.info/earth/toxic-chemicals-engulf-the-planet/feed/ 0 Poisoning the Planet’s Web of Life https://cncl.info/earthlings/poisoning-the-planets-web-of-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=poisoning-the-planets-web-of-life https://cncl.info/earthlings/poisoning-the-planets-web-of-life/#respond Mon, 17 May 2021 06:32:16 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=226631 The Web of Life is under attack but almost nobody is aware because it’s happening mostly below the surface. Scientists have identified a rampant worldwide Bugpocalypse that’s methodically killing the planet’s most significant and most crucial life support system, and it’s intentional!

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]]> https://cncl.info/earthlings/poisoning-the-planets-web-of-life/feed/ 0 Forever-Chemicals Tap Water https://cncl.info/human-society/forever-chemicals-tap-water/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=forever-chemicals-tap-water https://cncl.info/human-society/forever-chemicals-tap-water/#respond Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:18:39 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=225341 In Feb 2020, the Trump administration signed a regulation to remove America’s water resources from federal protection. "This will be the biggest loss of clean water protection the country has ever seen," according to the Southern Environmental Law Center.

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]]> https://cncl.info/human-society/forever-chemicals-tap-water/feed/ 0 Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual https://cncl.info/earthlings/pesticides-in-the-dock-ecological-apocalypse-but-business-as-usual/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pesticides-in-the-dock-ecological-apocalypse-but-business-as-usual https://cncl.info/earthlings/pesticides-in-the-dock-ecological-apocalypse-but-business-as-usual/#respond Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:50:48 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=224270 Regardless of a rapidly emerging health and environmental apocalypse, with the pesticide industry being one of the key drivers, unrestrained capitalism reigns, profits trump public interest and its business as usual.

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]]> https://cncl.info/earthlings/pesticides-in-the-dock-ecological-apocalypse-but-business-as-usual/feed/ 0 More Bad News for Glyphosate https://cncl.info/human-society/more-bad-news-for-glyphosate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-bad-news-for-glyphosate https://cncl.info/human-society/more-bad-news-for-glyphosate/#respond Wed, 25 Sep 2019 23:11:15 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=224194 The Glyphosate controversy continues making news around the world and in Australia. The latest news being that the German Government has recently announced that it will phase out all uses for Glyphosate by 2023.

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]]> https://cncl.info/human-society/more-bad-news-for-glyphosate/feed/ 0 Neonicotinoid Pesticides Have Caused A Huge Surge in the Toxicity of Agriculture https://cncl.info/earthlings/neonicotinoid-pesticides-have-caused-a-huge-surge-in-the-toxicity-of-agriculture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=neonicotinoid-pesticides-have-caused-a-huge-surge-in-the-toxicity-of-agriculture https://cncl.info/earthlings/neonicotinoid-pesticides-have-caused-a-huge-surge-in-the-toxicity-of-agriculture/#respond Sun, 15 Sep 2019 20:54:40 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=223926 The most widely used class of insecticides is dangerous for much more than its intended target, new research finds.

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]]> https://cncl.info/earthlings/neonicotinoid-pesticides-have-caused-a-huge-surge-in-the-toxicity-of-agriculture/feed/ 0 From Mad Cow Disease to Agrochemicals: Time to Put Public Need Ahead of Private Greed https://cncl.info/human-society/from-mad-cow-disease-to-agrochemicals-time-to-put-public-need-ahead-of-private-greed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-mad-cow-disease-to-agrochemicals-time-to-put-public-need-ahead-of-private-greed https://cncl.info/human-society/from-mad-cow-disease-to-agrochemicals-time-to-put-public-need-ahead-of-private-greed/#respond Thu, 25 Jul 2019 02:59:56 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=222080 From the ‘great British beef scandal’ of the 1980s to ongoing pesticide issue, the profit motives of rich corporations continue to trump the public interest.

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]]> https://cncl.info/human-society/from-mad-cow-disease-to-agrochemicals-time-to-put-public-need-ahead-of-private-greed/feed/ 0 The Flawed Food Dependency https://cncl.info/human-society/the-flawed-food-dependency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-flawed-food-dependency https://cncl.info/human-society/the-flawed-food-dependency/#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2019 23:45:21 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=221827 Julian Cribb's 'Food or War' is an important book: “The world faces the greatest threat to global food supply in all of human history… There has never been a situation faced by the entire human population at one time to compare with today’s.”

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]]> https://cncl.info/human-society/the-flawed-food-dependency/feed/ 0 ‘Good News’: Austria Poised to Become First EU Nation to Fully Ban Cancer-Linked Weed Killer Glyphosate https://cncl.info/human-society/good-news-austria-poised-to-become-first-eu-nation-to-fully-ban-cancer-linked-weed-killer-glyphosate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=good-news-austria-poised-to-become-first-eu-nation-to-fully-ban-cancer-linked-weed-killer-glyphosate https://cncl.info/human-society/good-news-austria-poised-to-become-first-eu-nation-to-fully-ban-cancer-linked-weed-killer-glyphosate/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2019 06:28:28 +0000 https://cncl.info/?p=221746 Austria is on track to become the first country in the European Union to fully ban the world's most commonly used herbicide after the nation's lower house of parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would outlaw all uses of glyphosate, which researchers and global health experts have tied to cancer.

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