• Philippe Binard: 30 years serving the European Fruit and Vegetables chain

    20 Jun 2017

    The 20th of June 2017 Freshfel AGM celebrated the 30 year work anniversary of Philippe Binard, General Delegate. He has been given a congratulation book with a lot of pictures and testimonies. Quite emotional.

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  • “Amish use GMOs, pesticides yet cancer rates remain very low”

    24 May 2016

    The Amish, an insular people in the United States for nearly 200 years, avoid modern technologies such as telephones, automobile, and even zippers. Many people think the Amish must also eschew genetically modified crops and pesticides. In addition, Amish are healthier than the rest of the US population. Their cancer rates are very low. So the anti-pesticides and anti-GMO…

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  • In Canada, free seeds to bring back the bees

    16 Mar 2016

    In Canada, General Mills, owner of the Honey Nut Cheerios trademark, has decided to put away their bee-mascot from packaging for some weeks. This way, they aim to make their customers be aware of the massive bee death. They offer free wildflowers seeds to every Canadian to bring back the bees. Have a look to #bringbackthebees (in English) or…

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  • How to Make a Natural Weed Killer (Andrew R. Kniss)

    07 Jan 2016

    In this article, Andrew R. Kniss, University of Wyoming (USA), Associate Professor, Weed Biology & Ecology, “introduces when bilanaphos enters the plant, about half of the molecule is quickly chopped off, leaving behind a smaller molecule – phosphinothricin”, which is an herbicide. So…

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  • “They killed the cats! Precaution, superstition and eco-zealots” (The Risk-Monger)

    21 Aug 2015

    That is the title of an article (in English) by David Zaruk, on his blog The Risk-Monger D Zaruk starts with an historic fact “During the Great Plague of London (1665-66), the authorities were convinced that the outbreak of bubonic plague was being spread by cats. As cats had then been looked upon by religious leaders as symbols of evil and…

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  • European Union: Are NGOs really independant?

    18 Aug 2015

    In 2015, in the frame of the LIFE program, the EU 24 environmental & climate NGOs with €9 million funding. The EU has published a article summarizing these fundings and a complete report with details for each organization and each action For example, about « pesticides », Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe), receive 150K€ for a work program detailed…

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  • A visual guide to food waste and losses (The Guardian)

    17 Aug 2015

    The Guardian, a British daily, publishes “Produced but never eaten: a visual guide to food waste” which is a global analysis of the food waste (“intentional”), but also of losses which are uninentional. “Each year 1.3bn tonnes of food, about a third of all that is produced, is wasted.” “In developing countries there are high levels of what…

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  • “The Colossal Hoax Of Organic Agriculture” (Henry I Miller, Forbes)

    31 Jul 2015

      Upon this title, Henry Miller, Biomedical scientist, FDA drug regulator and scholar at the Hoover Institution, argues mainly on the fact that pesticides residues issue is not a real issue and on the difficulties to implement an effective control of the organic chain, for regulatory reasons. That leads cheating. There is nothing in the article about agronomy or…

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