Julie P Smith
@juliepsmith1
Australian National University researcher, ARC Future Fellow, feminist, animal welfare and environmental campaigner. Dog 🐕 lover esp German shepherds 🐺
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08-09-2019 10:35:19
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NOT a Canberra Bubbler 🌲🌏🌲 Justascratch This chemical is banned in 67 countries, but not here in Australia. You start to wonder if our regulatory bodies like being dined by the chemical company/big farmer lobbyists.
NOT a Canberra Bubbler 🌲🌏🌲 So National Farmers Federation backs use of pesticide banned in many other countries as well as live sheep exports many other nations have banned. The NFF a global outlier. #auspol #NFF #Paraquat #ParkinsonsDisease
NOT a Canberra Bubbler 🌲🌏🌲 Farmers Federations are stand over merchants. They only represent the interests of big company operations & multinational corporations. Protecting a massively compromised APVMA; thanks to Barnaby Joyce, is another example of this.
"Capitalism and the ‘commercial determinants of health’: A more-than-human analysis of ‘unhealthy’ food consumption" - MaterialistSociology's Nick Fox's talk @ #MedSoc24 (on Thurs). Looking forward to hearing more about this!