School holidays were timed in July and August so that children could add to the extra manpower needed to weed the fields. Replacing millions of manual workers with a few litres of herbicide released unseen human resources for other economic and development purposes.
Pissing Contest! My correspondence with MEP Bart Staes on testing urine for glyphosate
A group of MEPs are testing urine samples for trace levels of glyphosate. I don’t agree with this approach. See my correspondence with MEP Bart Staes on this and our different perceptions of sustainable agriculture.
IARCgate for Dummies: Three Reasons this WHO Agency’s Glyphosate Campaign is a Scandal
Today an American media source contacted me to cover the story on this week’s censoring of my IARCgate blog. He wanted to have a short paragraph to explain the situation with IARC’s glyphosate scandal and why it is important. After sending him about two pages, where I tried to exclude many of the more complicated…
IARC-gate: How NOT to represent science at the international level
IARC (the International Agency for Research on Cancer) has fallen to a new low on any scale of research integrity. Yesterday it used an anti-industry, anti-pesticides journalist to defend its position on the glyphosate monograph against claims made by scientists, institutions, governments and the media (including this blog). The day after the release of the…
The Vulgar Act of Vilifying Farmers
Today lobbyists from NGOs and the organic industry have vilified conventional farming. Ask any farmer what they think of the image these cosmopolitan zealots have created, and the word “vulgar” comes to mind.
The Risk-Monger 