Sentences with phrase «by big agribusiness»

As Monbiot reveals in his argument with Lynas over GM, all he has to say is that Lynas has been conned by big agribusiness.

So many of the excellent health food companies have been gobbled up by Big Agribusiness and he has guaranteed that this won't happen to his company now by making his employee's co-owners.

So many of the excellent health food companies have been gobbled up by Big Agribusiness and he has guaranteed that this won't happen to his company now by making his employee's co-owners.

Give your body more of what it needs and not the additives used by big agribusinesses to pad their bottom line.

Not exact matches

Great Southern receiver McGrathNicol has opted to wind up the olive schemes operated by the fallen agribusiness company after failing to overcome a stalemate with two of the biggest names in Western Australian horticulture.

Australia's biggest agribusiness sees profit fall by a third amid a «subdued market» and dry weather.

The fund, managed by rural property veteran David Bryant, also grew distributions by 4 per cent to 8.92 cents in FY16 (a yield of about 5.4 per cent) as it benefited from rising global demand for the commodities its properties produce, the increasing scale and value of its portfolio and growing appetite for agribusiness from big institutional investors.

goFArm, which manages a development portfolio of over 21,000 ha of prime agricultural land in the Riverina and Sunraysia is run by agribusiness investor Liam Lenaghan and chaired by Robert Costa, co-founder of the country's biggest fresh fruit and veg group.

US agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of the biggest grains traders in the world, has been spared little sympathy by some farmers and politicians like Liberal senator Bill Heffernan, who used a Senate inquiry to grill ADM's executives on price - fixing charges dating back to the 1990s.

The existing economies of scale available to «Big Pharma» and agribusiness conglomerates will drop the price point of narcotics dramatically (presumably offset by a vice tax).

I think we've been duped into blaming ourselves, when all along a big part of the blame should be placed on this corrupt product of genetics research, propagated by agribusiness, and put to profitable use.

By forbidding any state rules to regulate agriculture, Measure 1 allows big agribusiness to write its own rules with no oversight.

«NAFTA - style investment provisions,» I explained, «would let big oil, mining, tobacco and agribusiness companies avoid accountability to national governments or courts for the environmental destruction and social injustices wrought by their investment projects.»

The reason Gibbs cites the transition from most of forest clearing being done by small - scale farmers (as was the case in the 80s) to agribusiness (from the 1990s onward), is that «Big agribusiness tends to be more responsive to global economic signals as well as pressure campaigns from advocacy organizations and consumer groups than individual small farmers.»