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The International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) is a non-profit organisation concerned with the protection of both biological and cultural diversity. Our emphasis is on education for action: moving beyond single issues to look at the more fundamental influences that shape our lives. Our activities include:
ISEC Newsflash
| Consumers may not be able to avoid cloned food |
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February 18, 2008 "Less than a dozen years after Dolly the sheep became the world’s first cloned mammal, grocers and restaurateurs are digesting the fact that milk and meat from cloned animals could soon filter into their supply chains...." |
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| New from GRAIN: 'Bird flu in eastern India: another senseless slaughter' |
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The West Begal, India, government has killed 3.7 million poultry birds since detecting bird flu in the state on January 15, 2008. As GRAIN exposes in this new report, "In a flash, one of the world's most dynamic areas of poultry farming has been practically ruined, a priceless stock of biodiversity wiped out, and the livelihoods of millions of poor families pushed to the brink....The response to bird flu in West Bengal needs to be seen for what it is: a political decision to safeguard the interests of the big poultry producers at the expense of the small-scale sector." It is tragically representative of the systematic pro-corporate slant of governments around the world - irrespective of political orientation - and the dismantling of truly sustainable, small-scale production. Read the entire report by following this link:
http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=35
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| True Scale of CO2 Emissions From Shipping Revealed |
February 13, 2008 The true scale of climate change emissions from shipping is almost three times higher than previously believed, according to a leaked UN study seen by the Guardian. It calculates that annual emissions from the world's merchant fleet have already reached 1.12bn tonnes of CO₂, or nearly 4.5% of all global emissions of the main greenhouse gas. |
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