Expediency: the “art of making something go away” has become the main political virtue in Brussels. This has allowed contrapreneurs to win on issues.
Tag: Glyphosate
Goodbye Glyphosate: Why Science Doesn’t Matter in the Age of Stupid
Next week, the European Council will consider the European Commission’s last-ditch compromise effort to reauthorise the widely used herbicide, glyphosate. It won’t go well.
Why I’m joining the March Against Monsanto
I am joining the March Against Monsanto to support those who feel afraid, vulnerable and angry. Over-stressed, they need a hug – so that is what I’ll be doing!
How to win without science: argumentum ad hominem
Argumentum ad hominem is the tool you use when there is no science on your side. Is that why activists are using it so much today?
Breaking down bullshit: How clever activists make you afraid!
The organic industry lobby openly lies, spreads fear and attacks its competition – all activities that any organisation or company with an ethical code of conduct would forbid. I’d like to demonstrate how one organic lobbying organisation, USRTK, desperately needs such a code (… and a lot of integrity).
The Pesticide Industry’s Moral Dilemma
As I continue to migrate my site, this is my favourite blog from 2015. It looks at how the pesticide industry is restricted by its internal codes of ethical conduct that will not allow them to attack competitors, while the organic industry and NGOs have no issue with lying and spreading fear about pesticides. Industry (and society) will lose, but with integrity!
Glyphosate: Why Greenpeace, PAN and MEP Pavel Poc are Monsanto Shills
Some counter-intuitive thinking. Maybe industry has alternatives to glyphosate that farmers and regulators don’t want. Maybe the NGOs and MEPs are acting as Monsanto shills?
IARC’s unprofessional and unethical behaviour. Time to retract their glyphosate monograph
IARC has not behaved like an international scientific agency within the WHO, but more like an NGO activist agency. Their glyphosate Working Group was driven by an activist scientist and since the publication, IARC has been attacking other scientific agencies that have roundly rejected their findings. IARC has been unprofessional, untransparent and unscientific. They need to retract their monograph on scientific and ethical grounds.
The Risk-Monger’s Dirty Dozen – 12 highly toxic pesticides approved for use in organic farming
The organic food industry has been propagating a myth that organic farmers do not use pesticides. Sometimes they sneak in the adjective “synthetic”, but the reality is that while conventional farmers use highly tested and proven pesticides, organic approved (natural-based) pesticides are largely untested. Hypocrisy abounds in the age of stupid as the Risk-Monger’s dirty dozen shows 12 organic pesticides that are far more toxic than that evil glyphosate.
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.
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