While history should draw many lessons from this year of relentless failure, 2022 was a year to forget.
Category: Innovation
The Industry Complex (Part 2): The Hate Industry
How many decisions are based today not on benefits but on hatred of industry?
Definitions matter
Who is defining the terms in food and agriculture debates?
ESG – A Global Development Squid Game
Companies jumping through ESG hoops can live to fight another day. But not the poor.
Farm2Fucked: Will Timmermans Destroy EU Farming?
Brussels is brain dead.
Precautionaria: An Affluent Disease Spread by Fear and Ignorance
Precautionaria is a debilitating disease that can be beaten.
Stop Spreading Chemophobia and Scientific Illiteracy: My contribution to the European Commission’s Consultation on the Revision of the REACH Regulation
Terms like toxic-free, safe and zero-pollution are emotional dreams which, like unicorns, don’t exist.
The Top Ten KeystoneCorona Moments of 2020: Part 9/10 – The Over-Promise of Normalisation
“Normal” isn’t coming back…so why are we denormalising the disruptors?
Carbon Farming Part 2: Cover Crops and Carbon Sequestration
If cover crops sequester vast amounts of CO2, why do they want to ban glyphosate?
My Feedback to the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability
The EU wants to take a hazard-based precautionary approach to all chemicals (unless we speak up).
Why Precautionary COVID-19 Lockdowns Failed Humanity
A world demanding zero risk can’t manage risks. We’re in trouble.
Agronomy’s AIDS Moment
Was Monbiot’s Apocalypse Cow the crisis agriculture needed to save humanity?
The Risk-Monger 