André Heitz
Glyphosate disinformation: French activists use fake ‘glyphosate detection tests’ in campaign to turn public against safe weedkiller
Opponents needed a tool that would strike public opinion. Monica Kruger, an activist and director of the private veterinary testing ...
Viewpoint: Europe’s proposed Green Deal is a “disaster under current climatic conditions”
Is Europe sufficiently equipped to cope in terms of food security and supply in the event of sharp rises in ...
Viewpoint: Why an EU ban on crop pesticide exports based on the misguided precautionary principle will hurt global farming
In France, on September 10, 2020, Le Monde headlined: ”The EU has authorized the export of more than 80,000 tonnes of ...
Viewpoint: Europe’s ‘Green’ activists wield McCarthy-era tactics by promoting ideology over science, undermining the push for sustainable food
Calls for realistic and workable regulation of “new genomic techniques” (NGT or new breeding techniques, “NBT”) for plant breeding cannot be heard. Those ...
Dangerous levels of glyphosate in urine? Junk science paper based upon a large-scale anti-GMO testing campaign
The public and journalists – the consumers of information about health – need to be aware of something that researchers ...
Viewpoint: Challenging organic advocates’ claims that agroecology and regenerative farming can sustainably feed France
"Organic could satisfy the needs of the French population quite easily if the proportion of animal products in our diet ...
Viewpoint: ‘An obsolete, counterproductive legal monster’ — Why Europe’s GMO policies fail farmers and the public
Here is my “Last-minute Johnny” contribution to the public consultation by the European Commission on “Legislation applicable to plants produced ...
Viewpoint: Green lobby in full swing as activist NGOs flood European Commission with pre-fabricated, anti-biotechnology propaganda
Before legislative procedures, the EU regularly asks for the opinions of its citizens and stakeholders. In principle, anyone can participate ...
Viewpoint: Here’s how activist scientists use exaggerated fears of trace chemicals as a subterfuge to try to derail crop biotechnology
Environmental Health published on August 3, 2021 “Commentary: Novel strategies and new tools to curtail the health effects of pesticides” ...
Viewpoint: Does glyphosate affect the gut microbiome? How modest findings snowball into ‘shameless’ sensational claims
Here is a report from the Environmental Protection Agency of the Danish Ministry of the Environment: "Effects of glyphosate on ...
Viewpoint: French court ruling that already-approved mutagenized crops should be heavily restricted as GMOs reaffirms need to revamp Europe’s antiquated biotech regulations
This judgment raises serious and important questions ...
UN report warning of ‘disappearing’ biodiversity raises unjustified alarms about food security, agronomist argues
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has just published a voluminous report, The State of the World ‘s Biodiversity for ...
Viewpoint: The public loses when a ‘prestigious’ journal such as Nature indulges in political activism
Is this really about science, or is something else going on here? ...
Viewpoint: Why the French media still defend Séralini’s discredited GMO rat tumor study
In recent months, the [French] media has had little interest in reporting the results of three large-scale studies that reviewed and confirmed the safety ...
Viewpoint: Questioning Nature’s publication of anti-glyphosate letter
On March 21, 2018, Nature published a letter by French journalists Stéphane Foucart and Stéphane Horel, “Risks associated with glyphosate ...
Genetically modified plant could make cheaper malaria drugs. Will anti-GMO activists oppose it?
A team of mainly Chinese researchers [recently published] “The Genome of Artemisia annua Provides Insight into the Evolution of Asteraceae ...
Viewpoint: North American scientists, IARC officials conspired to misrepresent glyphosate health risks
On March 20, 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that it had classified glyphosate, the active substance ...
Bayer’s proposed takeover of Monsanto has GMO critics taking aspirin
Politicians and activists have been speaking out against Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto. Should consumers and farmers worry about the increasing ...
Europe’s battle over glyphosate ‘was never about science’
André Heitz is an agronomist and a former international civil servant for the United Nations. . . . [T]he European Commission ...
Glyphosate controversy never about science but rather ‘activist’s war on Big Ag’
. . . [W]hat exactly makes glyphosate such a controversial issue? One must look no further than the . ...
