{"id":28257,"date":"2018-08-31T10:08:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T09:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=28257"},"modified":"2018-08-31T10:08:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T09:08:55","slug":"enviro-27th-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=28257","title":{"rendered":"Enviro &#8211; 27th August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Fenviro-27th-august-2018%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On this Edition of Enviro:<\/p>\n<p>The team referred \u00a0to several important environmental issues raised in media recently and our presentation and discussions centred largely around these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Article by Stephen Moss in <strong>the <em>Irish Daily Mail<\/em><\/strong> Monday June 11 2018. \u201cOilseed rape. It looks pretty-until you learn it\u2019s dripping with chemicals that kill bees, pollute waterways and can make humans ill\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Article in the <strong><em>Sun Sunday August 12<\/em><\/strong> by Lorraine Kennedy making the case that Cannabis oil or CBD should be legal in Ireland for medical reasons.\u00a0 A new documentary has been made \u2018Patients of Cannabis\u2019. Some dramatic changes are referred to in the article and documentary resulting from the use of cannabis oil (CBD<strong><em>). Ref: CBD network Ireland<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bloomberg report quoted in the Sunday Independent, 26\/8\/18 which shows how the big drink firms are considering and working on possible investments and\/or alliances to make cannabis-infused beverages.\u00a0 Sunday Independent 26\/8\/18<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>\u201cCould Ireland\u2019s most popular garden spray <\/em>Roundup<em> be killing more than your weeds?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Refer <\/em><\/strong>to article in the Irish Daily Mail Tuesday August 14 2018 by John Naish Irish Daily Mail August 14 2018. <strong>Roundup<\/strong>-update on reaction to $289M cancer bill for Monsanto-court award which they say they will appeal<strong><u>. We found that Roundup is still on the shelves in Irish hardware stores.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cycling is on the rise but funds fall-refer to article in the <strong><em>Irish Daily Mail<\/em><\/strong> Tuesday August 14 2018<\/li>\n<li>Report by John Ingham and Jonathan Buckmaster\u00a0 in the Daily Express July 6 2018- \u2013 \u2018Special Investigation\u2019- \u201cBrutal&#8230;how plastic is killing off Arctic wildlife\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Edition of Enviro: The team referred \u00a0to several important environmental issues raised in media recently and our presentation and discussions centred largely around these: \u00a0Article by Stephen Moss in the Irish Daily Mail Monday June 11 2018. \u201cOilseed rape. It looks pretty-until you learn it\u2019s dripping with chemicals that kill bees, pollute waterways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11007,4841,4412,1723,11429,11430,11008,11431],"class_list":["post-28257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arctic-wildlife","tag-cycling","tag-joe-dunne","tag-john-haughton","tag-oilseed-rape","tag-patients-of-cannabis","tag-plastic","tag-weeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28260,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28257\/revisions\/28260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}