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[Link] NSW laws criminalising secret recordings of animal cruelty ‘too great a burden on speech’, high court hears
Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision of animal cruelty and abuse are posing “too great a burden on speech”, animal rights activists have told the high court.
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[Link] Upstart Corn Activists in Mexico Just Beat GMO Goliath Bayer-Monsanto
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Mexico's Supreme Court just rejected appeals by companies including Bayer-Monsanto, Synganta, and Corteva, and voted to ratify an injunction that restricts the cultivation of genetically modified corn.
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[Link] 10,000 John Deere Workers Go on Strike
Read: 14/10/2021 www.vice.com
The strike was authorized after John Deere workers at a dozen facilities in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas voted by 90 percent to reject a contract negotiated for months between the United Automobile Workers union and the company.
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[Link] 'A declaration of war': Farming groups call out 'parasitic' alternative-meat labelling
Read: 19/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The third public hearing of an Australian parliamentary inquiry into the definitions of meat and other animal products has seen strong views expressed from vegans, animal activists, and farming advocates.
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[Link] Australia's largest movement of livestock underway as beehives choppered in to pollinate almond trees
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Beekeepers are going to great lengths to ensure that the almond pollination season in north-west Victoria is a blooming success this year. More than 277,000 hives are being transported to the region from across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
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[Link] Unique potatoes, dedicated farmers behind one of Australia's longest running chip snacks
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
It takes 120 days from planting to harvesting to create a product that can be consumed within minutes, but the journey of these spuds stretches back even further.
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[Link] Spanish reality TV show takes on problem of rural depopulation
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
It’s a TV genre that has yielded countless hours of escapism and fuelled the rise of billionaires, pop stars and even an American president. Now a new reality series has set its sights on one of Spain’s thorniest challenges: rural depopulation.
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[Link] Elon Musk's Brother Wants to Build Utopian Learning Gardens, Without Unions
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Big Green's anti-union stance coincides with a series of outwardly progressive institutions and companies, including art museums, universities, public interest law firms, and green energy companies, taking measures to ensure their employees don't unionize.
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[Link] 'Mental health is deteriorating': Farmers beg for exemption for overseas harvest workers
Read: 8/7/2021 www.abc.net.au
For the second year in a row COVID-19 is causing headaches for grain farmers, who are begging the Federal and state governments to allow them to bring in overseas machinery drivers for this year's harvest.
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