Today's quick reads
Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.
Please continue to not sponsor this child
537 - May, 2022
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It’s been 40 years since New Internationalist sounded the alarm on child sponsorship. But today thousands of people are still signing up to the idea. To whose benefit?, asks Kathleen Nolan as she explores why this quick fundraising tool is not all it’s cracked up to be.
The disappearing Senegalese sardines
533 - September, 2021
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Why is a nutritious superfood being routed away from poor communities to feed salmon, pigs and pets? Hazel Healy investigates.
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