jessie chan
Keep Soil Alive, Protect Soil Biodiversity
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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What is normal?
What we regard as “normal” is the acceptance of many dysfunctional systems of food production, agriculture, economics, industrialization and science that have lead to our ill-health, inequalities, injustices, domination and the destruction of the planet earth. We accept it because it is the norm and the only world we know. It is like a biologist who has only seen cancerous tissue and...
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ALIENATION and DEHUMANISATION in our Society
"...Let me right at the outset define what I mean by alienation. It is the cry of men who feel themselves the victims of blind economic forces beyond their control. It's the frustration of ordinary people excluded from the processes of decision-making. The feeling of despair and hopelessness that pervades people who feel with justification that they have no real say in shaping or determining...
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