Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Check out the latest CRIKEY news on the misreporting of Ceres...

Freelance journalist Matthew da Silva writes: Based in inner-north Melbourne’s Brunswick East, CERES is a popular not-for-profit environment education centre and public farm that hosts farmers’ markets and sells weekly fruit and vegetable boxes to locals.
But after a report earlier this month by The Sunday Age on levels of lead contamination at the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies farm, sales at the CERES market dropped 30%, weekly orders disappeared and staff shifts had to be cut.
Problem is, The Sunday Age article relied on information from interim test results from Moreland Council, which had people testing for contamination at the site.

Read more here.

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