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  • Minor uses and speciality crops at the European Parliament

    24 Jun 2015

    19 agri-food chain organizations, associated in the AFCRT, and Anthea McIntyre, UK MEP, organized an event at the European Parliament. They “call for a coherent policy on plant protection solutions, including minor uses and speciality crops” Read the presentation  including: – Agriculture production perspective, by Luc Peeters, Copa-Cogeca: need for a quick and concrete harmonization of the EU plant…

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  • To smile: Chemical Party (video)

    17 Jun 2015

    The University of Oslo (Norway) has put this humoristic and didactic short video about attraction and repulsion between atoms, which the engine aof chemical reactions.

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  • “Is Monsanto evil?”

    27 May 2015

    On the 23rd of may 2015, thousands of people, at a global level, marched “against Monsanto” (read here). What are the arguments leading to this increasing hostility against this company ? Are they valid? Are they a manifestation of a more general issue? The litany The main charges against Monsanto are about : its origins, the invention of the…

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  • EU: “Transparency – Stop the Good Lobby / Bad Lobby Nonsense”

    12 May 2015

    On this title, David Zaruk, on his blog The risk monger, describes how, in a EU meeting, there is a heavy process to give the talk to the NGOs lobbyists and to ostracise the industries lobbyists and their data. There is a huge difference between Washington DC and Brussels : In the USA, there are lobbyists. In Brussels,…

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  • Minor uses, a major issue… in the USA

    11 May 2015

    IR-4 is an USA program dedicated to the minor uses issue in the USA: Since 1963, it has been “the major resource for supplying pest management tools for specialty crop growers by developing research data to support new EPA tolerances and labeled product uses.” Read the 2014 IR-4 Year End Summary  to understand what is the IR-4 program….

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  • “Does An Apple A Day REALLY Keep The Doctor Away?” (Video)

    29 Apr 2015

    In this video, TestTube, Internet site of science popularization, tell a motivating story : short history of apples and of the famous proverb. But also list of the science based health benefits of apple eating: vitamins, fibers, micro-nutrients… The video ends with a praise for food diversity. Not to be missed.

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  • To smile: DHMO Alert

    23 Mar 2015

    The DHMO Research Division has published  its results about DHMO on the Internet Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound. Its use is widely spread. DHMO most important dangers are : Death due to accidental inhalation, DHMO is a major component of acid rain. Gaseous, DHMO can cause severe burns, found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors…

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  • In praise of fast food

    16 Mar 2015

    In this article, issued by the Utne Reader (USA)  which publishes  books extracts, Rachel Laudan dare to tell the truth : “We need a culinary ethos that comes to terms with industrialized food” “For our ancestors, natural was something quite nasty. Natural often tasted bad. Fresh meat was rank and tough, fresh fruits inedibly sour, fresh vegetables bitter. Natural…

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