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  1. "We force animals to adapt to the constraints of farming modelled on the mass production of manufactured goods, whereas farming should respect the ethological needs of animals. This is a transgression because we grant ourselves an absolute right that we do not have. This violence towards animals is a condemnation of us. Yet our relationship with animals could be an opportunity to think about a way of inhabiting the Earth that makes coexistence with other species possible. This requires new foundations for ethics and politics."

    – Corine Pelluchon

    #factoryFarms #farms #ownership #coexistence #eugenics #capitalism #extractivism #appropriation #landGrab #plantations #slavery #nature #separation #epistemology #speciesism #antiSpeciesism #animals #philosophy #beliefs #squash #inhabitability #grievability #farming #quote #quotes

  2. Focus on Coffs Harbour and Nambucca Valley

    "NSW modern slavery report calls for urgent reform to protect migrant workers."

    "A NSW parliamentary report into modern slavery has detailed "harrowing stories of mistreatment and harm..The report asked the government to investigate allegations of systemic labour exploitation in Coffs Harbour and the Nambucca Valley."

    "NSW Anti-slavery commissioner Dr James Cockayne said in a statement the report was "informed by evidence from almost 100 witnesses across NSW, including victim survivors of modern slavery, and 60 submissions"." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/nsw
    #exploitation #PALM #MidNorthCoast #HorticulturalIndustry #blueberries #CoffsHarbour #NambuccaValley #food #harm #slavery #plantations #regulation

  3. Modern slavery in Coffs Harbour?
    Where does the fruit for Christmas come from?

    "Migrant workers have given evidence in Coffs Harbour at a NSW parliamentary inquiry into modern slavery...More than 100 reports of migrant workers being exploited across Coffs Harbour in the past two years."

    "The Coffs Coast is the nation's largest producer of blueberries."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-12-13/mod

    Modern slavery au
    modernslavery.gov.au/
    #CoffsHarbour #NSW #IR #work #fruit #food #PALM #workers #exploitation #plantations #LabourMobility #HorticulturalIndustry #blueberries #ModernSlavery #PacificNeighbours

    Christmas hamper contextualised with fruit from the plantations of the Coffs Harbour coast, ChatGPT

  4. Hype for the Future 12A: Historyland

    Within the Commonwealth of Virginia, even in spite of guilty historical ideas such as slavery and plantation culture, the region continues to maintain a presence and status as the origin story of the United States of America. Numerous plantations, particularly within the Northern Neck and along the north side of the James River, are largely identified by numerous historical figures such as the Washington, Custis, Lee, Tayloe, Madison, and Monroe families. Further inland is the Jefferson […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025

  5. Logging NSW mid-north coast biodiversity in the plantationocene ( The Great Koala National Park )

    'The NSW government has imposed a temporary moratorium on timber harvesting within the boundary from Monday, but harvesting in plantations will continue."

    "Koalas on track to be extinct in the wild across NSW by 2050."
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    abc.net.au/news/2025-09-07/gre
    #biodiversity #Plantationocene #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #koalas #gliders #Gumbaynggirr #Dunghutti #NSWLogging #GaggingSci #plantations

  6. No justice for Indigenous community taking on a Cambodian rubber baron
    "A land dispute that has simmered for a decade pits an Indigenous community inside the Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary against a politically well-connected rubber company."
    news.mongabay.com/2022/12/no-j
    #Cambodge #terres #caoutchouc #plantations