We the Human

27/10/2025

Air pollution, in India, is a major contributor to respiratory diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchitis, and lung cancer.
It aggravates cardiovascular diseases and is associated with increased mortality from heart disease, diabetes, and dementia.
Vulnerable groups like children, elderly and people with respiratory or allergic conditions face the highest health risks.
Studies estimate over a million premature deaths annually in India are linked to air pollution, with many affected by lung function abnormalities especially in children. During and after Deepawali, cities like New Delhi experience hazardous air quality with AQI often exceeding the "severe" range (above 300), making breathing harmful.

24/10/2025

Single use plastic is a big menace; animals, birds & marine life consume plastics in search for food. Single use plastic is decomposed in more than 500 years. It mostly finds its way into the guts of animals, birds, marine life, springs & ground water and our air also. Our whole environment is affected badly due to single use plastic. Single use plastics are in the form of packaged water, beverages bottles, cooking oil bottles, plastic bags, wrappers of biscuits, toffees, milk pouches etc. These are used largely by human beings in today's life. We should all pledge to either stop or reduce use of single use plastics. Recycling of plastics is also a way to reduce production of fresh single use plastics. Single use plastics are manufactured out of petroleum materials causing large scale emissions in the air, thus polluting our environment further.

03/10/2025

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02/10/2025

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24/09/2025

Food Safety Organisation urged to check adulteration in milk and milk products during festive season

Jammu, 24/09/2025: Kr. Y S Manhas, retd Principal Secretary Law, Chairman of the Executive Body of We The Humans Forum for Nature and Mankind, a charitable trust, has urged J&K Food Safety Organisation to launch a rigorous campaign against milk and milk products during this festive season. Y S Manhas informed that the demand for milk and milk products is at its peak during the festival season and few unscrupulous elements tend to indulge in malpractices of adulteration in milk in order to earn more profit in view of huge demand of milk & milk products in the market.
Apart from water, carcinogenic detergent powder, urea, vegetable oils, chalk powder etc. are added in milk to increase quantity as well as thickness/ viscosity. It became the prime duty of the J&K Food Safety Organisation to launch a vigorous campaign against the adulteration and lift as many samples as possible so as to check the malpractices of adulteration of milk and milk products. The culprits should be booked under the relevant sections of FSSAI.
Manhas further said that there is a need for J&K Food Safety Organisation to set up check points at Lakhanpur, Udhampur and Jammu Railway Station & Bus stand so as to check the quality of milk, cheese and sweets being imported from outside the J&K UT so that the adulterated milk, cheese and sweets do not reach upto consumers. Regular checking of milk and milk products especially cheese and sweets shall definitely result in a decrease in malpractices of the adulteration.
Chairman of the Executive Body of the trust, K. Y S Manhas, further said that notwithstanding with people’s fundamental right to be free from hunger and to consume safe food, free from toxics, pesticides, other micro-biological, chemicals and physical contaminants, the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat contain residues of pesticides. Adulteration of food is caused by sand, stone, chalk powder, mineral oil, coal tar, dyes, arsenic, lead, mercury, pesticide residues, larvae in food, rampant use of formalin in fish, infection by rodents, insects in the form of excreta etc.

22/09/2025

Food adulteration on increase; authorities failed to check menace: ‘We The Human’ - Daily Excelsior

Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 1: Use of poisonous chemicals in food, milk and milk products are increasing day by day in the State by few greedy elements, especially, during on-going festive season but the authorities are in slumber and failed to check this menace. Addressing a press conference...

18/09/2025

Punjab’s Cancer Train: The tragic legacy of Punjab's Green Revolution

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18/09/2025

These are a few stories published in local newspapers regarding excessive usage of hazardous chemical pesticides in agriculture fields/ orchards in J&K. These have startling facts! Humanity is faced with danger of cancer and other life consuming diseases. The number of patients with cancer, kidney, liver diseases are increasing drastically. We all need to relaunch the campaign against such malpractices and ask farmers/ growers to adopt natural farming techniques.

Kashmir's agricultural practices have drastically changed over the years, leading to a significant decline in beneficial insects and medicinal plants. Farmers regret the overuse of pesticides, which has disrupted natural pest control and contaminated water sources. Experts emphasize the need for sus...

27/08/2025

Currently, the people of Jammu and Kashmir are facing a catastrophic situation. A number of incidents of cloud bursts have resulted in floods & landslides, loss of precious human lives in different parts of the union territory. Incessant rains have beaten the records of the last hundred years. A big number of houses are damaged badly.
The government is doing its best to provide relief to people. Different agencies including the Indian Army are pressed in for rescue operations.
But, do we know what the reasons are responsible for today's catastrophic situation. Isn't this unsustainable development; Hills have been cut badly, thousands/ lakhs of ethenic variety trees stand down while undertaking road widening projects, constructing roads through mountains to reach inaccessible areas. New industrial areas are being developed in green belts. Banks of rivers and nullahs are encroached upon to build houses. There is a considerable rise in temperature disturbing the balance of nature resulting in more numbers of such catastrophic incidents.
The governments need to understand that the restoration of hills & mountains and afforestation should go alongside with an equal pace along with all infrastructure development especially road projects. Sincere efforts should be made to increase the green cover. The development projects need to be planned in a manner not to disturb nature's balance. No development on the cost of disturbing the green cover should be allowed by the governments. We all need to get awakened from the deep slumber and make sincere efforts to restore the badly disturbed balance of nature otherwise the things in the near future are going to be too dangerous .

11/08/2025

People's responsibility to save environment - Daily Excelsior

Anuj Kumar Verma I was, today, just going through the past history of India to study origin of the famous “Chipko – Save Trees Movement” in India. I was swayed away with a strong wave of emotions when I came to know about supreme sacrifice made by Amrita Devi and her three daughters alongwith ...