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3 Everyday Foods that Contain Microplastics
Our life is plasticised! New research shows microplastics present in frequently consumed fruit and vegetables. It is time to ban throwaway plastic packaging and support research into the health impacts…
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Let’s talk about climate change: Fion Lam connects her body, mind, and soul to the love of nature
To a yoga practitioner, facilitates people to connect their body, mind, and soul might be a life-long mission. For Fion Lam, a yoga teacher and a green activist, she is definitely looking for more. “Protecting the environment is never a hobby or something to do only when you are free. It is a responsibility, an…
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Joey Leung + Greenpeace’s online cooking class: love to all mothers including Mother Earth
Greenpeace Hong Kong office invited actor and food expert Joey Leung to introduce two healthy vegetarian dishes on Mother’s day so we can express love to our mothers through cooking.…
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Let’s Talk about Climate Change: Renee, a young climate activist and vegetarian
Climate change is here, and it’s causing a wide range of impacts. As global citizens, we should not ignore the crisis we are in. Yet sometimes if not all, we…
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Shaking up China’s food system- in Shanghai and beyond
Dried flowers of the Sanqi plant Greenpeace China’s campaign to push one of China’s biggest retailers to purge pesticides triggered food safety reform across the whole of Shanghai.…
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ChinaChem to takeover Syngenta – Greenpeace statement
Beijing, 4 February 2016 - On the announcement of ChemChina to takeover the pesticide and seed company Syngenta, Philippe Schenkel, Ecological Farming Campaigner at Greenpeace Switzerland, said:
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Contamination on the great north eastern plain: What I saw
There is something special about the soil and the air of the north eastern plain. On the boundary of inhospitable wilderness – the Mongolian steppes and the frozen forests of…
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GPEA’s discovery of illegal GE corn in the corn supply chain in north east China
From May to December 2015, Greenpeace East Asia (GPEA) carried out an investigation into corn production in Liaoning province, one of China’s major corn production areas. The investigation discovered that large quantities of GE corn are being grown illegally in the city prefectures of Shenyang, Jinzhou and Fuxin. It is very likely that much of…
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Greenpeace sampling finds 93% of corn grown in China’s ‘breadbasket’ province of illegal GE strain.
Beijing, 6 January, 2016 – A Greenpeace East Asia investigation into corn production in Liaoning Province, one of China’s major breadbaskets, has found that 93% of random field samples and 20 of 21 samples from grain markets and supermarkets in the area tested positive for illegal genetically engineered (GE) contamination. The commercial production of GE…
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The New Organic Farmers: the individuals who connect people and the environment
Our broken food system