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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

FEATURED ARTICLE: Green Policies Translate Into Less Food, Higher Prices

by Angela Logomasini on September 30, 2013
Thanks to misguided bureaucracy and fear mongering from environmental activists, myriad valuable products are disappearing from the marketplace. Walmart, Proctor & Gamble, and Johnson and Johnson are leading the way by following green advice to phase out a host of valuable chemical technologies because of misinformed green hype.
Pesticides—which are needed to feed a growing world population and fight vector-borne diseases—are often found on the regulatory chopping block, thanks to environmentalist scare campaigns related to both food safety and wildlife protection.  In Europe, as in the United States, pesticide regulations are driving a host of products off the market and will surely raise prices and reduce the ability of European farmers to produce food. While green groups suggest that we should fear these chemicals, what we really need to fear is their crazy policies.
A recent article in a European farmer’s publication explains how nonsensical European pesticide regulations will likely affect food production there:....To Read More.....

 

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