Farmerless farms manned by driverless machines, monitored by drones and doused with chemicals to produce commodity crops from patented genetically engineered seeds for industrial ‘biomatter’ to be processed and constituted into something resembling food. Data platforms, private equity firms, e-commerce giants and AI-controlled farming systems. This is the future that big agritech and agribusiness envisage: a […]
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Instead of subsidising energy that ruins the environment, tax it heavily and use the resulting income to subsidise people’s other basic needs. Doing so would generate more revenue, help the environment and nudge people to be more conscientious about energy efficiency and their energy habits.
Sainsbury's and Carrefour among group of top European supermarkets to announce boycott of Brazilian beef after investigation links products from JBS to deforestation in the Amazon, Cerrado, and Pantanal