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Year: 2020

Year: 2020

Mining rare earths poses toxic risks: CAP warns Kedah MB

Admin December 8, 2020 0 Comments
We refer to the announcement by the Kedah Menteri Besar (MB) last week that the State intends to mine for a rare earth element (REE) which could be worth RM62 billion. REEs are extracted from ores and minerals as they are not often found concentrated in mineable deposits. REEs are almost always found in conjunction with significant radioactivity as these ores and minerals naturally contain...
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Covid-19 pandemic is a psychological time-bomb

Admin December 7, 2020 0 Comments
Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) is very concerned about Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on people’s mental health as suicide cases are increasing since the start of the Movement Control Order (MCO) in March 2020. According to media reports, Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) statistics showed that 266 people committed suicide between 18 March and 30 October 2020. Within the same period Covid-19...
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Keep Soil Alive, Protect Soil Biodiversity

Admin December 6, 2020 0 Comments
5 December is World Soil Day. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s theme for this year's campaign is: "Keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity". CAP’s own environmentally sustainable urban vegetable farm adopts practices that encourage soil fertility and biodiversity. Our farm also uses natural processes to handle pest populations, which eliminates potentially...
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Lesson from the Sick Bed

Admin December 4, 2020 0 Comments
  Our concepts of physical and psychological health have become one-sidedly identified with the heroic qualities most valued in our culture: youth, activity, productivity, independence, strength, confidence, and optimism. Advertisements reflect our picture of health as young, white, slim, athletic, and beaming with "the cheerful effervescence of a Bernie Siegel or a Louise Hay," as writer...
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Yes, we CONSUME 1,000 CANNED DRINKS per minute

Admin December 4, 2020 0 Comments
The main ingredients of soft drinks are carbonated water, added sugar, caloric sweeteners, artificial colouring and flavours. Total junk that are made of sugar and chemicals. Soft drinks are linked to obesity, type 2 diabetes, dental cavities, and lower nutritional benefits. And sugar is linked to 60 diseases. The Malaysian National Health and Morbidity Survey in 2006 showed that 38% of...
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NGOs Shocked by Logging Activities in Greater Ulu Muda Forest

Admin December 3, 2020 0 Comments
Several non-governmental organisations (listed below) are shocked to learn about recent occurrences of deforestation activitiesin a forest reserve in the Greater Ulu Muda Forest. According to satellite images, between May and November 2020, some 87 acres (0.35 sq. kilometres) of natural forest near to Tasik Ahning, in the Bukit Keramat Forest Reserve have been clear-felled and terraced for what...
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Recall Imported Frozen Meat from the Market

Admin December 2, 2020 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang calls on the authorities to immediately recall imported frozen meat from the market as Muslim consumers would be unwittingly consuming Non-Halal meat. The call is made in response to the report that the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs had seized 1,500 tonnes of frozen meat valued at RM30 million from a store room in Senai, Johor. According to...
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Good Description of the Working Class

Admin December 2, 2020 0 Comments
You may wear the most expensive, best and cleanest clothes but are your hands clean? Your hands might be tainted with corruption, exploitation and dehumanisation? The working class does all the dirty and most dangerous and menial jobs for us. They are poor and exploited and suffer horrible living conditions. And wearing torn and dirty clothes. They are the marginalized of society. And they built...
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Drastic Increase In Red Onion Price

Admin December 2, 2020 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is very concerned about the rapid increase in red onion price after India imposed an export ban due to monsoonal flood disasters. A CAP market survey carried out in Penang shows that price of red onion imported from China, Holland and Pakistan has increased from RM 4.00 to RM 7.50 per kilogramme a month ago and currently has further increased to...
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