Agriculture et Environnement
Viewpoint: ‘All exposed, all contaminated’—How France learned to fear its food
According to the latest Eurobarometer on food safety in the European Union, published at the end of September 2025 by ...
Organic production in France slides as focus shifts to climate change and organic yield lag
The 21st Agence Bio barometer sheds new light on the causes of France's disenchantment with organic products ...
President Macron’s attempt to appease French anti-glyphosate environmental lobby goes awry, alienating both his activist base and farmers
Good news for French agriculture. Finally, the European Commission decided to follow what a majority of Member States wanted, in this ...
Viewpoint: No, pollinator declines are not causing 500,000 premature human deaths a year, as The Guardian and Le Monde report
Under the catchy title "The decline of pollinating insects causes 500,000 premature deaths per year", lepoint.fr published a brief translation ...
Despite escalating anti-GM activist campaigns, EU leadership explores how gene editing could help address climate and sustainability goals
While there is still a broad consensus against transgenic biotechnologies, new genomic techniques (NGT) are today arousing many positive opinions ...
Viewpoint: Agri-bashing — How European Green Party groups have evolved into unscientific propagandists
“The organic lobby exists in Brussels, it has a storefront and is called Ifoam”, admits the environmental activist Martin Pigeon, ...
Viewpoint: ‘A very curious form of self-sabotage’ — Organic industry rejects crop biotechnology solutions for environmental damage caused by widespread copper sulfate use
Last February, the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses) published a “mapping” on the uses ...
Viewpoint: Are synthetic pesticides necessary for farming? How agroecology, anti-biotechnology activist groups misrepresent the science and influence government policy
With the clearly stated desire to influence the French presidency of the European Union on the pesticide issue, the CCFD-Terre ...
Viewpoint: ‘Naked Organic’ campaign? France’s uncompetitive organic farming industry propped up by government subsidies
[Agriculture et Environnement:] How do you analyze [the recent “Naked Organic”] campaign launched by certain players in the organic sector ...
Church of Scientology key driver of glyphosate class action suits
If it is now established that there would never have been a "glyphosate" case without the decisive impetus given by ...
Organic food health time bomb? Potentially carcinogenic and confirmed irritant organic pesticide copper sulfate used to grow wine grapes, potatoes and tomatoes found in ‘almost entire French population and in particular children’
The Esteban study of Public Health France of the French population revealed the presence of copper in almost the entire ...
France pledged to ban glyphosate, but regulators say phasing out weedkiller probably isn’t possible
The long-awaited publication of the latest report from the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (ANSES) concerning ...
Pro-GMO documentary ‘Food Evolution’ censored in France?
In a confidential report, the cinematographic distribution company 2iFilms recounts its misadventures concerning the broadcasting of the documentary Food Evolution ...