American NGOs have discovered that Brussels is the ideal place to launch a US lobby campaign. Hippie Go Home!
Category: Agriculture
Zealot Ethics: How NGOs get away with murder
In a world where environmental activists can freely lie, cheat and bring others down, shouldn’t we study why we tolerate such unethical behaviour?
Cargill: How to Stop a Freight Train
Cargill’s cheap marketing move into the organic market will hurt farmers, reduce global food security and wipe out the small organic food distribution chain.
The Top 20 Reasons not to Feed your Family Organic!
During Pesticide Action Week, I think most of us are tired of their lies and feel-good bullshit!
GlyphoSafe: Eight points for European Commissioner Andriukaitis on Glyphosate
Here is how Commissioner Andriukaitis needs to act following ECHA’s decision that glyphosate is safe!
Green Slime: An Exposé into the Murky Collusion between NGOs and Members of the European Parliament
An exposé into a secret meeting between NGOs and public officials who strategised how to use agri-tech company mergers to promote their pro-organic interests.
My secret exchange on neonics with the European Commission
When an FOIA request was made for my email exchange with the EU on neonics, I thought I should share them in a blog. Enjoy!
BeeGate Revisited (Pt 4). EFSA’s Neonicotinoid Scandal: Illogical, Illegitimate, Illegal
EFSA moved the goalposts to ban neonics. They seemed to have scored an own goal!
BeeGate Revisited. The Bee-Sting: Activist Scientists and the Abuse of Power
In 2014 the European Commission banned 3 neonics. Its decision was based on activist science gaming EFSA and bias within DG Sanco (Santé). Nobody cared.
BeeGate Revisited Part 2: The IUCN’s Activist Science Bee-Team: Who’s Who and Who’s Funding Them
This blog was Part 2 of what became known as the BeeGate trilogy. Originally published on 10 December 2014, it exposed the low qualifications of many of the activist bee scientists and the anti-industry, pro-organic organisations funding them. As EFSA is about to advise on the temporary neonicotinoid precautionary ban, I think it is a good idea…
BeeGate Revisited: IUCN’s Anti-Neonic Pesticide Taskforce: An exposé into activist science
Activist scientists had a strategy document on how they could manipulate the process to ban neonics. I found it.
The Risk-Monger’s Top 10 Worst Moments of 2016: The Year of Stupid!
My Top 10 Stupidest Moments of 2016. How I wish 2017 would be reasonable.
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