@growing____thoughts

Growing Thoughs | Substack

Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation | Plastics | The Guardian

Uptake and transport of micro/nanoplastics in terrestrial plants: Detection, mechanisms, and influencing factors - ScienceDirect

Determining the accumulation potential of nanoplastics in crops: An investigation of 14C-labelled polystyrene nanoplastic into radishes - ScienceDirect

Chocolate's Child Slaves? Secrets of the Chocolate Industry

Iconic chocolate brand linked to child labor in Ghana

Cocoa farming, cheap chocolate and child labor – DW – 11/26/2020

Mars, Nestlé and Hershey to face child slavery lawsuit in US

US Supreme Court blocks child slavery lawsuit against chocolate firms

As cocoa outprices copper, farmers reel from bitter deals – DW – 03/27/2024

Ghana's cocoa farmers file complaint over prices and child labour

Chokladjättar stäms för barnarbete

Chocolate’s hidden ingredient | Walk Free

TV exposé reveals child labour on Mondelēz Cocoa Life farms in Africa

Côte d'Ivoire cocoa exports and deforestation

Stoppa PFAS

France 24: Spain's strawberry farms from hell

Challenges facing Kenyan flower farm workers

The true cost of Mother's Day flowers

Why Flowers Are So Cheap, And Who’s Paying The Price | True Cost | Business Insider

Deadly Bloom: Multinational Flower Farms in Kenya

SIGNERAD - Till växten : En kärlekshistoria av Maja Alskog Bredberg (Häftad)

PESTICIDE PARADISE How industry and officials protected the most toxic pesticides from a policy push for sustainable farming

Non-disclosure of developmental neurotoxicity studies obstructs the safety assessment of pesticides in the European Union - Environmental Health

Hjärnstörande bekämpningsmedel i odling av potatis, lök och äpplen

Rapport: Farliga ämnen i vartannat päron

Rekordstor försäljning av bekämpningsmedel till lantbruket – högsta på 40 år

Focus - Spain's strawberry farms from hell

Pitted against profits, Spain’s biodiversity haven collapses

Illegal strawberry farms threaten future of Spanish wetlands | Spain | The Guardian

Anita Goldman: Kriget mot jorden leder mot kollapsen

How many premature deaths from pesticide suicide have occurred since the agricultural Green Revolution? - PubMed

The global distribution of acute unintentional pesticide poisoning: estimations based on a systematic review - PubMed

New Study Shows the Growing Risks of Pesticide Poisonings

Bekämpningsmedel påverkar ofödda barn | slu.se

This Chemical Is in Short Supply, and the Whole World Feels It

Sista skörden | SVT Play |

Kiss the Ground | Netflix |

Sista skörden | SVT Play |

Matens pris - Prylarnas pris | Sveriges Radio |

Greece’s migrant fruit pickers: ‘They kept firing. There was blood everywhere’ | The Guardian | 2014.09.01

New report denounces labor conditions for agricultural migrant workers in Italy | InfoMigrants | 2021.06.21

Spain migrant worker camp fire: 'Our house is burning' | BBC | 2021.02.14

'Shocking' abuse of migrants forced to pick strawberries in Spain, U.N. says | Reuters | 2020.07.01

‘No food, water, masks or gloves': migrant farm workers in Spain at crisis point | The Guardian| 2020.05.01

Spain's 'Sea of Plastic': Where Europe gets its produce, migrants get exploited | DW | 2019.03.09

The Guardian – Rape and abuse: the price of a job in Spain’s strawberry industry? | The Guardian | 2019.04.14

‘Consumers are not aware we are slaves inside the greenhouses’ | Al Jazeera | 2019.10.16