“We have to put our money where our mouth is now so that we can put food into hungry mouths.”
Robert Zoellick, head of the World Bank, is calling for more aid for poor countries to tackle spiralling global food prices (BBC online, 14 April)
“If you’re telling them it’s absolutely safe, then it’s not ethical.”
Soil chemist Murray McBride of the Cornell Waste Management Institute criticises a study in which sewage sludge was sprayed onto people’s yards in poor, black neighbourhoods in Baltimore to test whether the way it binds to lead could prevent poisoning from the soil…
