For years, the European Commission failed to act on NPBTs. Now they have failed Europe.
Category: Agriculture
Generations of Farming
Our grandparents worked hard to deliver successful agriculture. What will we leave our children?
Requiem for Neonicotinoids: A Failure in European Leadership
The EU neonic ban was not about the bees, not about the science and not about sustainable farming.
So what was it about?
Michiel versus Goliath: True Cost or Truly Lying?
This is a story of how a Dutch farmer stood up to the lies of a lobbying organisation … and won!
A Message from the Big-6 Pesticide Companies to Green Activists: THANK YOU!!!
The Risk-Monger is breaking with tradition and publishing an article he did not write. But he fully supports the content and hopes people give this some thought (and a smile).
“Poisoning Paradise” Film Review: When lawyers go to Hollywood
Another sad documentary produced to please naturopaths, but also to prep juries for the litigation season.
Are Pesticides Good or Bad?
An obvious answer to a question no mature person should be asking
Ten Practices Linking Environmentalism with Fascism
We should not be surprised that the German Greens may work with the far right AfD. The Greens have always been a bit fascist.
Glyphosate and the Regulatory Failure of Precaution
Europe’s failure to renew a safe, beneficial herbicide is a clarion call to reassess the illegitimate, hazard-based precautionary principle.
They killed the cats! Precaution, superstition and eco-zealotsÂ
In 17th century London, precaution led to the Great Plague. Today, a new religion of zealots are still using the same techniques similarly unaware of the consequences.
Glyphosate in the Age of Stupid
How could a band of 50 activists manage to handcuff EU policy, destroy trust in science and affect the lives of 12 million EU farmers?
Greed, Lies and Glyphosate: The Portier Papers
Portier was paid $160K to attack glyphosate by lawyers suing Monsanto.
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