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December 10, 2018
Guest blog post by Patrick Bailey, a professional writer focusing on mental illness and addiction graduated at Central Michigan University. Retaining the unenviable ‘title’ as the world’s heaviest drinkers for more than a decade now, Europeans have recognized the health consequences of alcohol consumption to the drinker and to those around him. The European Union… » read more
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October 30, 2018
In this article I want to take a really broad look at how continuous innovation in the starch industry is contributing significantly to tackling some of the biggest challenges in sustainable agriculture and bioeconomy in Europe. Guest blog post by Jamie Fortescue, Managing Director at Starch Europe. The planet faces more and more environmental pressure.… » read more
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Guest blog post by Garlich von Essen, Secretary General, European Seed Association (ESA) and Petra Jorasch, Manager Plant Breeding & Innovation Advocacy, European Seed Association (ESA) The Advocate General takes a differentiated view when assessing the regulatory status of plants resulting from new breeding methods. The latest plant breeding methods like genome editing can help… » read more
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Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers |
October 31, 2017
OPEN LETTER 25 October 2017 Karmenu Vella, Commissioner Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries European Commission 1049 Brussels Dear Commissioner Vella: We write regarding one of the world’s most vulnerable and valuable shark species – the shortfin mako, with hopes of enlisting your help to avert North Atlantic population collapse. As head of the EU’s environment… » read more
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Better regulation, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Fishery, Food & Consumers |
October 6, 2017
Guest post by Roberto Defez, molecular microbiologist at the Institute of Bioscience and BioResources, Italian National Research Council. Agriculture is at a turning point. Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis (Health) and Phil Hogan (Agriculture) are sitting on two running horses approaching a crossroad. There is no middle road. They have to decide whether to keep research on… » read more
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Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Development Policy, Food & Consumers, Innovation and Growth |
January 16, 2017
“Have you gone mad?”, is the most frequent question from mainland European friends on the sore-vexed issue of Britain’s Gadarene flight from Europe. They are of course not questioning my sanity, but that of the thirty-seven per cent of the British electorate who voted on June 23 to leave the European Union. For without a… » read more
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Guest blog post by Mella Frewen, Director General of FoodDrinkEurope. Food waste is a scourge that must be stopped. Treating food as a disposable commodity exacerbates resource scarcity and hunger, both of which are amongst the 17 UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). Agreed in September 2015, the UN recognises reducing food waste as a… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
Two studies came out (just in time for Pesticide Action Week) that question the cost to society of pesticides and other chemicals. The logic is simple: Chemicals cost societies billions of dollars, therefore removing them would save money. I am a little troubled by such a simplistic view – like any statistical analysis, you… » read more
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Innovation and Growth, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev. |
March 21, 2016
The last blog looked at ten reasons why glyphosate is the herbicide of the century. So why then, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence and clear environmental and social benefits, is this product on the verge of having its authorisation removed? The NGO activists and pro-organic lobbyists have led a formidable campaign that started a… » read more
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Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research |
March 18, 2016
The following is the first of a two-part blog looking at how a corrupt unethical campaign against an essential agricultural product is succeeding in the EU. This first part will look at why glyphosate is such a good product for farmers; the second part will demonstrate how environmental NGOs, activist scientists, organic lobbyists and IARC… » read more
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Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev. |
Last month’s Paris Climate Conference (COP 21) was an exemplary moment in the history of stupid. A dismal failure, the much anticipated climate event did not produce any binding treaty, any strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and its toothless “non-adversarial and non-punitive” accord essentially put climate decisions on the back-burner until after 2050. Rather… » read more
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Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking |
I am sure there are days when the Food Babe, Vani Hari, must close her laptop, look out of her living room window and marvel: How is it that a woman with a diploma in computer science and without any education in toxicology, chemistry or nutrition could become a global leader in diet and… » read more
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Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking |
November 20, 2015
The following is Part 1 of a ten-part blog on governance to be serialised over the holidays. Today our personal decision-making process is strongly influenced by the latest social media applications yet EU and American government policy mechanisms, developed in the last century, have not been adapted to these communications tools. This discrepancy has created… » read more
Posted by The Risk-Monger
November 12, 2015
It is commonly believed that organic farmers do not use pesticides and that organic food is therefore safer to consume than conventionally farmed fruit and vegetables. In a UK poll, 95% of the consumers bought organic food because they wanted to avoid consuming pesticides. This belief could not be further from the truth. The… » read more
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Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev. |
As we watch the mainstream media come up with excuses for the IARC monograph that showed, without a shadow of a doubt, that prepared meats and sausages are carcinogenic (Group 1 = carcinogenic), we should take a moment to reflect on why our news sources have become so inconsistent when it comes to reporting on… » read more
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Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Innovation and Growth, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev. |
