Europe’s failure to renew a safe, beneficial herbicide is a clarion call to reassess the illegitimate, hazard-based precautionary principle.
Category: NGO lobbying
They killed the cats! Precaution, superstition and eco-zealots
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?
IARCgate: Six Reasons Why IARC’s Head, Christopher Wild, must be Fired
IARC is a sinking battleship. Should its captain go down with it, or resign and let others try to save it?
Carey Gillam: A Rachel Carson for our Time?
As anti-Monsanto carpetbagger Carey Gillam makes her 2nd paid trip to Brussels to lobby against glyphosate, we need to ask a few questions.
Memoirs of a Monsanto Shill
How I discovered the activists and Greens needed me to be their face of evil. Why I decided to stand with Monsanto.
The Possibilist Principle: How Brussels Became a Hazard-based Activist Playground
How did we ever get to the madness of a hazard-based precautionary policy approach? Through those relentless possibilists.
Twelve Lies Organic Lobbyists Commonly Spread about Pesticides
The organic food industry lobby has no qualms about lying about food risks. Here are the 12 most common.
How “Organic” is a Marketing Concept
The Risk-Monger’s list of six marketing tricks that have built the organic industry business empire.
Don’t buy an electric car!
As the UK plans to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040, perhaps we should ask: Are electric cars sustainable?
Reblog from 2011.
Eight Tips on How to Grab the Bully by the Horns
When the activist bully bullshit hits the fan, how should we react? Three case studies.
EU Funding of NGOs: Europarl Debate follow-up.
In today’s Europarl event on EU funding of NGOs, I presented a case study of how Friends of the Earth is abusing the Commission’s lack of scrutiny.
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