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Reckoning for European Green Deal ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy: EU lawmakers side with farmers and consumers, bury plan to cut chemical pesticide use by 50%

Bill Wirtz | RealClearMarkets | 
In a stunning upset, the European Parliament voted down the "Sustainable Use of Pesticides" bill, which marked the cornerstone of ...
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Viewpoint: Growing gene-edited food in Europe still faces long delay despite recent reform recommendations

Bill Wirtz | RealClearMarkets | 
The European Commission, which is the executive arm of the European Union, recently announced that it intends to loosen rules ...
Viewpoint: ‘Fashionable organic fantasies’ — Global elite at Davos WEF convention endorsed failed agriculture policies amid global food crisis

Viewpoint: ‘Fashionable organic fantasies’ — Global elite at Davos WEF convention endorsed failed agriculture policies amid global food crisis

Chandre Dharna-Wardana | RealClearMarkets | 
While eating caviar and sipping on fine wine, wealthy elites at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos hobnobbed with ...
Viewpoint: What the US can learn from Sri Lanka’s disastrous ‘green’ embrace of anti-GMO hysteria?

Viewpoint: What the US can learn from Sri Lanka’s disastrous ‘green’ embrace of anti-GMO hysteria?

Chabdre Dharna-Wardana | RealClearMarkets | 
Since Sri Lanka’s independence in 1948, its agricultural policies focused on reaching self-sufficiency in food production. Thanks to chemical fertilizers, pesticides, modern ...
Viewpoint: ‘Defenders of modern agriculture should vehemently push back against the notion that today’s food model undermines bee health or human health’

Viewpoint: ‘Defenders of modern agriculture should vehemently push back against the notion that today’s food model undermines bee health or human health’

Bill Wirtz | RealClearMarkets | 
Since the introduction of neonicotinoid insecticides – the pesticides blamed for bee death – in the mid-90s, bee populations have ...
Viewpoint: Are we overusing agricultural chemicals? Not if we we want increased yields, lower prices and more sustainable practices

Viewpoint: Are we overusing agricultural chemicals? Not if we we want increased yields, lower prices and more sustainable practices

Bill Wirtz | RealClearMarkets | 
We would be remiss to ignore the positive effects that modern crop protection has had for us. Without pesticides, crop losses ...
Golden Rice could fight deadly vitamin A deficiency now. Why do farmers have to wait another 3 years to grow it?

Golden Rice could fight deadly vitamin A deficiency now. Why do farmers have to wait another 3 years to grow it?

Matthew Rees, Phil Harvey | RealClearMarkets | 
It’s one of the world’s most preventable tragedies. Every year, as many as 500,000 children go blind because their diet ...
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