The Government's 'National Pollinator Strategy' has a fatal flaw, writes Georgina Downs - it contains no meaningful measures to address farmers' spraying of highly toxic pesticides, often in mixtures that can further increase the harm they cause. And with 80% of the UK's pesticides used in agriculture, that's setting the 'strategy' up to fail.
… Agricultural pesticides - the gaping hole in the UK's … to address farmers' spraying of highly toxic pesticides, often in mixtures that can further … the harm they cause. And with 80% of the UK's pesticides used in agriculture, that's setting …
After an apparent cave-in to Europe's pesticide industry, the European Food Safety Authority's latest guidance on pesticides conflicts with European law, writes Georgina Downs - by ignoring the real-life agrochemical exposure of rural residents. Commission President Juncker must step in and demand the withdrawal of this disgraceful document.
… Food Safety Authority's latest guidance on pesticides conflicts with European law, writes … the risks to people exposed to agricultural pesticides used in crop spraying. These … EU legislation regarding the authorisation of pesticides (formerly Directive 91/414 and now …
After leaving the EU the government could allow dangerous pesticides banned elsewhere in Europe to be used in the UK, writes Keith Tyrell. Today, Pesticides Action Network is launching a new campaign calling on citizens to fight back against the pesticide industry - and ensure that EU directives and regulations serve as a baseline for British pesticide laws.
… Tyrell PAN UK | 8th February 2017 Activism Pesticides Regulation UK EU Brexit … the EU the government could allow dangerous pesticides banned elsewhere in Europe to be … used in the UK, writes Keith Tyrell. Today, Pesticides Action Network is launching a new …
The risk of cancer from the world's top herbicide, glyphosate, is just the tip of the iceberg of health damage caused by exposure to pesticides and other toxic agrochemicals, writes Georgina Downs. It's time for governments to correct their scandalous failure to protect rural residents from the cocktails of poisons sprayed on crops.
… health impacts to rural residents. Photo: UK Pesticides Campaign. The risk of cancer from … of health damage caused by exposure to pesticides and other toxic agrochemicals, … offence for the industry to make claims that pesticides are safe. Also, the EU Regulation …
The Green Party manifesto, published today, pledges to enact long overdue restrictions on the use of toxic pesticides to protect rural residents and children from adverse health impacts, writes Georgina Downs. Now all political parties must follow where the Greens have led.
… Now other parties too must keep us safe from pesticides Georgina Downs | 14th April 2015 … long overdue restrictions on the use of toxic pesticides to protect rural residents and … - to protect people from exposure to toxic pesticides. On page 14 it pledges to: "Secure …
If it wasn't climate change, was the real purpose of the Number 10 meeting of Theresa May's advisors and President Trump's environmental transition supremo Myron Ebell to plan the post-Brexit deregulation of UK farming, including pesticides? That's how it looks, writes Georgina Downs - and we had better begin now to fight for our health, wildlife and environment.
… Downs | 3rd February 2017 Comment Health Pesticides Farming Politics UK USA Regulation … deregulation of UK farming, including pesticides? That's how it looks, writes … meeting related to? And could discussions on pesticides in agriculture/farming have played …
The British establishment does nothing quite so well as lies, cover-ups and high-level corruption, writes Georgina Downs - whether it's the Hillsborough disaster or permitting polluters to poison us. Georgina won her own High Court legal victory protecting rural residents from pesticide exposure as long ago as 2008 - only to have it snatched away as Court of Appeal judges closed ranks.
… From Hillsborough to pesticides: establishment cover-ups, lies and … justice for all the rural residents that my pesticides campaign represents is something … acted unlawfully in its policy on the use of pesticides in crop spraying, and that public …
Those who dare suggest that pesticides might be implicated in Brazil's microcephaly outbreak are being furiously attacked as irrational, nonsense-spouting 'conspiracy theorists', writes Claire Robinson. But the attackers have an uncanny ability to get their own facts in a twist. And among them are writers linked to industries with huge economic interests in the matter.
… Zika, microcephaly, and pesticides: half-truths, hysteria, and vested … Those who dare suggest that pesticides might be implicated in Brazil's … Tamar Haspel. Haspel tweeted : "No, GMOs and pesticides aren't the Zika culprits. Could we …
Pesticide companies are responsible for assessing the safety of their products, writes Christopher N Connolly - and this situation cannot continue. The research should be carried out independently, subjected to peer review, and published.
… to accept funding for studies on the risks of pesticides to bees and other pollinators from … should accept ban on pollinator-harming pesticides '). The chair of the Committee, … its findings: "When it comes to research on pesticides, Defra is content to let the …
Hawaii has got everything, writes Christopher Pala, and not just for holidaymakers. It's also the perfect place for biotech companies to develop GMO corn varieties and spray them with toxic agrochemicals. People are getting sprayed too - and doctors report high rates of birth defects. But grassroots efforts to restrict the use of pesticides have twice been over-ruled by state courts.
… Hawaii: anger rises over health impacts of pesticides used on GMO crops Christopher Pala … But grassroots efforts to restrict the use of pesticides have twice been over-ruled by state … yards away. "That's where they spray the pesticides, even when the wind is blowing …
Dangerous volumes of neonicotinoid insecticides and other pesticides are expressed in common wild flowers like buttercups and hawthorn blossom in countryside under arable cultivation, a new study has discovered. The discovery invalidates the UK government's 'pollinator strategy' based on creating 'safe havens' in arable areas - because the havens are in fact loaded with pesticides.
… exposes hidden cocktail of bee-killing pesticides in hedgerows and wildflowers Oliver … of neonicotinoid insecticides and other pesticides are expressed in common wild … - because the havens are in fact loaded with pesticides. Scientists at Sussex University …
With Brexit the UK will have to chose between two visions of our farming future, writes Keith Tyrell. Will it be heavily subsidised corporate agribusiness that ravages both nature and small, high quality farmers. Or will we seize the chance to build a sustainable food and farming system that supports wildlife, landscape, family farms, organic production and diverse rural economies?
… 25th August 2016 News Farming Food Brexit UK Pesticides Toxics Health Organic Politics … Water Framework, and Sustainable Use [of pesticides] Directives - but it is also … more are suffering major range contractions. Pesticides: the agrochemical threat to our …
There's absolutely no evidence for BBC Panorama's claim of 90% success for Bt brinjal in Bangladesh, writes Claire Robinson. But that has not stopped the BBC Trust from dismissing all complaints against its monstrously dishonest report. Nor has it diminished the jubilation of GMO cheerleaders.
… and thus to reduce the use of harmful pesticides" . The Trust adds that even if … brinjal again." Did Bt brinjal require less pesticides? The BBC Trust takes on faith … Bt brinjal crop reduces the use of "harmful pesticides" . Lynas goes even further. He …
Chemical and pesticide industry lobbyists are striving to abolish the European precautionary principle in favour of a so-called 'science-based' approach, write Lora Verheecke & Laura Große. If the EU succumbs to the spin, human health and the environment across Europe will be sacrificed to corporate profit.
… 2016 Comment Corporations EU UK Brexit Toxics Pesticides Health eye-cut.jpg Chemical and … hazardous substances like chemicals and pesticides is an extremely sensitive policy … of many (though not all) chemicals and all pesticides to EU regulators. In addition, …
The health of Europe's citizens is on trial as the EU's food safety regulator challenges the World Health Organisation over glyphosate and cancer, writes Corporate Europe Observatory. On the WHO side, published, peer reviewed science, real world epidemiology and open processes. While the EFSA conclusion is based on secret industry studies and opaque procedures. Will science or realpolitik win the day?
… conclusion was anxiously anticipated in the pesticides world, and was met with relief by … regulate glyphosate [ 6 ] . However, the EU pesticides legislation foresees that pesticides that are linked to "presumed human …
Chemical giant Bayer has failed in its attempt to sue Friends of the Earth Germany over its claims that its pesticide Thiacloprid harms bees. Now pressure is growing on the EU to add the neonicotinoid to the three already banned.
… withdraw the offending bee-hazardous pesticides from the market. "We call on all markets to stop the sale of Thiacloprid pesticides" , he continued. "In addition, the … when mixed with fungicides. These bee-toxic pesticides must also be banned in the UK! Back …
Some of the world's most powerful figures tout the benefits of GMOs, writes Stacy Malkan, but what's the real story? Facts on the ground expose the PR spin, half truths and outright propaganda that has come to dominate a public conversation that is not so much about engineering genes, but engineering truth for the benefit of multinational corporations.
… 2016 News GMOs Corporations Media Science Pesticides Toxics USA right-2-know-cut.jpg … contaminated with high volumes of toxic pesticides, in large part because Hawaii is … school near intensively sprayed test sites. Pesticides often drift so it's no wonder that …
Previously suppressed documents show that Bayer and Syngenta, the makers of controversial 'neonic' insecticides subject to an EU ban, took part in and sought to influence a key meeting of pesticide experts to decide whether to lift a ban on their use in the UK.
… in the UK. The manufacturers of controversial pesticides took part in a key meeting on … of the UK government's expert committee on pesticides (ECP) had previously been … crops but are in decline due to the impact of pesticides, loss of habitat and disease. The …
Ever since its creation in 1970 the US-EPA has been a failing organization, writes Carol Van Strum in her review of 'Poison Spring' - serving the corporations it was there to regulate, falsifying data, suppressing the truth about pesticide toxicity, and crushing whistleblowers.
… whose tests supported EPA registrations of pesticides. "IBT was not a unique case of … landscapes. In 2011, two billion pounds of pesticides were sold in the US Most if not all of those pesticides lacked valid testing data then, and …
The European Parliament just voted to re-authorise glyphosate, writes Peter Melchett - but with significant restrictions on its use. So what does the vote mean for the world's biggest selling herbicide? And how come the UK's National Farmers' Union welcomed the decision as an unqualified victory?
… | 15th April 2016 Comment EU UK Farming Food Pesticides Health Politics Science … funded studies being used in secret to get pesticides authorised in countries like the … requirement for medicines - but it's not for pesticides and it's not for GM crops. If the …
A coalition of farmer and public interest groups are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency for unlawfully approving the use of Monsanto's highly toxic herbicide dicamba on its dicamba-resistant GMO soybeans and cotton, without consulting wildlife and fisheries agencies.
… for Food Safety | 25th January 2017 News GMOs Pesticides Corporations Regulation Law USA … Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, senior scientist with Pesticides Action Network. "Monsanto's …
Blaming 'lack of time', Syngenta withdraws its emergency application to use a seed treatment blamed for killing bees. Friends of the Earth and 38 Degrees claim victory - but Syngenta warns: we'll be back!
… two-year EU moratorium on the use of 'neonic' pesticides on flowering plants, which began in … the scientific evidence linking neonicotinoid pesticides to bee decline is stacking up." In … 27 June asking him to uphold the ban on pesticides to protect bees. Environmental …
The US Environmental Protection Agency has just withdrawn its authorization for a toxic mix of two herbicides, glyphosate and 2,4-D, to be used on GM crops. The move came in response to a lawsuit claiming the initial registration was unlawful.
… on behalf of Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides, Center for Biological Diversity, … farm has been lost because there are so many pesticides in the environment. Many acres of …