Opposition to bottled water has primarily focused on blocking plants and increasing access to tap water. The closure of Ontario’s largest bottled water plant shows that these efforts can succeed.
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Obesity among children is a growing problem in Africa.
Financial links between corporations and health research invariably lead to conflicts of interest.
The closure of a factory in Michigan is the incident that put new parents across the US on edge, but the real causes for the shortage of baby formula are many years in the making.
Cocoa buyers and chocolate manufacturers still use various strategies to deflect when the issue of child slavery is raised
Around the globe, 823,000 child deaths could be prevented annually with appropriate breastfeeding. Formula makers continue to defy a 40-year-old international code on marketing their product.
Emmanuel Faber was trying to pursue a form of stakeholder capitalism.
From next year, lolly shelves will stock Red Rippers and Cheekies. It’s not a flawless renaming — but it is important.
After years of food scandals caused by supply chain issues, there are hopes in some quarters that coronavirus could be the key to widespread adoption of blockchains.
A media study of public criticism of plastic reveals that stigmatisation may result in limited bans, it leaves the vast majority of plastic production and pollution unexplored.
Before you stock the pantry with chocolate this Easter, think twice about whether it’s ethically produced.
Much of the trash on Canadian shorelines can be traced to five food companies. We could soon see more compostable and edible packaging.
The Modern Slavery Bill before the Senate is touted as ‘smart legislation’, because it asks for information rather than imposes penalties, but it mightn’t be enough.
It’s all about being ‘sufficiently distinctive’ and in the multi-billion dollar chocolate business, much is at stake.
Nestle pays the state a pittance in exchange for its water at a time when public awareness of water issues is rising.
Tonight, Four Corners looks at the tactics Big Sugar has used to influence health policy. Here’s our pick of five analysis pieces that will get you informed on the issue before the program airs.
Farmer-led development work can improve people’s lives, provide access to food and water - and re-connect them to nature.
The lightning-quick corporate response to demands for a boycott against the NRA shows that companies can’t escape politics in an age saturated with social media.
“Shaming campaigns” have been successful in attracting attention to transnational issues like inhumane working conditions and environmental degradation. But shaming guilty corporations is only the first step.
The benchmark scheme that protects cocoa farmers and local communities could be toppled as big players rethink their role.
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