Archive of News & Comment - from May 2001. 

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2004

November (part)
Talking turkey - organic hampers - Irish food mythology - Mad Marian attacks organic food - Letters to the Times - Organic food high in fat and salt - In a pig's rear, with Nigella Lawson

October  GM crop pollen can travel 100s of kilometres - Herr Fischler out, Frau Fischer in - Sweden's secret weapon

September  End of food democracy in Europe - Bracken is a killer - Hail Mary (Mary Coughlan, Ireland's new Ag. Min.) - Not on the Label; What really goes into the food on your plate - Dying for a hamburger.

August  Farmers' Markets, new developments - Lying labels.

July    Ireland's "stunning" beauty must be protected - against the Irish! - Hunting and smuggling organic produce - Fair Trade and organics - Ballinree/Ballybrado, the beef - Roundup, a grave matter - Long Rider.

June   Good organic news from the US - Book, "Not on the label" - Organic fraud - Percy Schmeiser - Bloomsday - Gaia goes nuclear - Lack of discussion on organics

May  Playboy organics - GM being hammered - Talking with God - Chef advocates organics - "The costly fraud that is organic food"

April   A turbulent priest - Monsanto terminated? - Organic breast is best - Organic rubbished - Our soil " a goldmine" - Tipperary Environment Conference - Irish farm leader says no to GMOs

March   Raw milk cheese - Lord calls organics "voodoo science" - Fischler is a supporter of GM food - Slow Food in Kenmare

February  Paradise regained - Shows, Exhibitions etc.

January Paradise Lost , Fischler and "coexistence" with GM - Organic farmed salmon sales up - Lies, lies and more whoppers, GM industry tactics against organics - EU Organic Action Plan - Mad Cow Bull etc.

2003
December  Organic side-by-side with GM crops (Fischler proposes) - The Meatrix (link to animation) - Kiss organics goodbye (co-existence) - Sheep protest outside Irish parliament - Pretty-good book - "Commercial organic farming is the greatest threat to bio-diversity" - Ivy League goes organic - BBC gags organic writer.

November  Bulgaria, organic bread basket of Europe (Fischler) - Pesticides in organic food! - Darby O'Gill and the little food people (Ireland's lies about its food quality and environment) - Why bother with organic certification? - Papal Bull - Tasting organic beer in Germany.

October - to 20th Tractors and Trolleys in London - Organic Conference Galway - EU woman commissioner with balls! - West Cork consumers denied access to budget supermarket.

September Organics Awake - Potato powered computers - Socialists jailed for bin protest - GM in Ireland - Cancun, come and gone - Horses for courses - Farmers Markets.

August   Sacred Comfrey - Finding Farmers Markets - A Stolen Goddess - Country Smallholding magazine - Spring (Willy) Fever

July  Blighted, finally - Don't burn the chicken shit -  Is organic food provably better? - Archaeological Vandalism Tipperary - Blight still at Bay - Battleships for Beara - Clothes Encounters - Bill and Blair, the GM pair - Spare the Copper - Bloody Bloodstock Industry

August   Sacred Comfrey - Finding Farmers Markets - A Stolen Goddess - Country Smallholding magazine - Spring (Willy) Fever

June  Bush's Declaration of Food War on Europe Inane Bluster - Spare the Copper and save the Sod - Very Special Olympics - De Boys in Dubai - Decoupling -  Meacher hung out to dry - Bloomsday - As it is in art, so also is it in Life - Growing Awareness - Safe Food? - Books

May  Renegade organic conference, Dublin - Guardian supps. on food - Ireland, neither green nor welcoming - "Tie me kangaroo down, sport", slit it's throat, and bash the wallaby's brains out - Captain Blight! - All over for organics in Europe, if.....--  Dog for dinner - Veggie food.

April  (to 24th) Organic farming "rubbished"; Planorganic's defence - Eat organic for your health not for flavour - Sex in the country - Bloody bloodstock industry - Peer-reviewed evidence on health benefits of organic food - Children's exposure to pesticides.

March  Grand Slam Fever - Ireland - Fluorescent Green? - Irish organic magazine; what a waste! - Organic grain scandals - American invasion; of Europe! - Walsh Ag Min under fire - Slow food - Fictitious Times - Shamroguery - Crud in milk - Pesticides and baby food - Who's nuts? - Irish organic college saved? - The polluted pays! - Burn or bugger off  - No need to go organic in Ireland - Donner und Blitzen. 

February  Irish gov abandoning organics? - Weapons of mass deception - Potatoes - McDonalds going organic? - Death food from Spain - Speeding Irish organic Ag Min. - Organic college; proposed closure 

January  Organics blamed for GM food aid rejection - Irish organic college to close? - Protato-the new GM spud - Tractorcade in Dublin - Family farmers look to organic for survival - Org Ag Min Noel Treacy's infamous interview.



2002

December  Prince Charles stands up for British farming - Mc Carthy's Bar - Food safety chief, Krebs, whipped in? -  Pesticides, weapons of mass destruction - Bond knight fights windmills.

November  BSE Bull in Ireland - Organics Attacked - Studs to be taxed? - Organic origins and directions - New US Organic Standards - BSE not caused by MBM. 

October  Irish Organic Inspectors' Strike - New US organic standards - Burger Shite - Consumers ripped off.

Sept.  Should you buy organic? Newsweek. - Pesky Pesto - Prince slams supermarkets for profiteering on organics - Seeds of Doubt(SA).- Johannesburg, a Hero - Organic College, Dromcollogher Festival - No Incineration campaign up in smoke? - Tea at the Ritz? - Supermarkets and Processors,  ripping us off? 

August   UK Organic Action Plan - Organic Race Horses - Organic costs less - Monsanto Wound UP - The €3 million Wedding - Finnàin MacNaidhe appreciation - Pre-Johannesburg.
 
July  Organic Revolution in the UK - Cancer from hill-walking? - CAP revolution - Coolmore Stud 'Boys' - Pinta Bomb - EU will label GM food.

June  Otley Organic conference - Incinerators and organic horses and Lloyd Webber - Eat fruit and vegetables at your peril! - Don Quixote? - Superquinn going organic but not so super - World Food Summit - Soil Association operating out of a car boot!

May  Kunast puts hex on farming - Naked chicken - Irish organic report at long last

April  Muck-raking Dargan - Darina roasts food policies - Fishy Boat - Mad Dogs.

March  Organic and non-organic farm jobs - changes in website

February  Davern says organic will stay niche - Chicken shit - UK Farming Future Report - Royal Society U-turn on GM - Food Key to health - The robber banks

January  SA suppresses report - Greenpeace Lord turncoats? -  Davern & Culchie trophy - Bleating sheep farmers - Organic bashing

2001

December  Solstice - laying down the food law - Food miles - Chicken breast implants - War on eco-terrorists - Shit in meat   

November  Slow food - Quick food - Monbiot defends against fundamentalism slur - Irish food policies fascist?
     
October  Planorganic threatened with libel action - Monsanto doomed if organic court case succeeds

September Biological warfare and FMD - Blight-free potatoes - Fischler suggests organic not the answer. 

August  Dead Meat - Monsanto sues God - Cuba's organic revolution - Round Up withers generals - Irish organci report slated.

July   Organic grain fraud - Pesticides in fruit and veg - Ireland's shame

June   Byrne's plan 'a license to contaminate' - Chilean organic revolution - Irish tourism losses from FMD, £2 bilion 

May   Danish Organic Conference - Phantom sheep - Guinness contaminated? - Revolution! - Action Plans