Encouraging talk by Dir. Wolfgang Burtscher at #POLITICOAgriFood shows that 75% of CAP for direct payment ticks boxes of both food security and environmental practices. We can avoid either/or.
The Problem with the Food System is It Works by @sarah_k_mock https://t.co/tyyQWGFMwr
Insightful. For sustainable-maybe just functional society, some pay $20 for a burger. Not as crazy indexed to cost to park the car. Plus more of food value stays rural, addressed divide.
He traces how "ignorance has become a virtue" and how this can take down society and democracy. But can anyone refer me to workable proposal on how to restore a healthy level of trust in experts?
How America Lost Faith in Expertise https://t.co/SqKZvXjMc0 via @ForeignAffairs
So pleased the FT published my letter to the editor on multifaceted, measured and healthy use of technologies in agriculture!
Some farming tools have surprising effects https://t.co/28Jt6QbtFh via @financialtimes
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EU Parliament staff (Think Tank) published this study on need for plant protection products. Shows they are essential to diversity, getting higher yield off cultivated land. Says 25% more land converted to farming if organic.
Clear headed view on how giving up logic ends the age of enlightenment, and what we can do about it.
‘Blue Monday’ pseudoscience undermines trust - https://t.co/5E1OcgGbIU via @FT
The odds that eating a serving of romaine will put you in the hospital are less than 1 in 28 million, writes @PerishablePundt https://t.co/5bD5DPZCi4 via @WSJOpinion
If you can listen to the podcast, hear how the brain physiologically responds to goodwill and goodness begets goodness-- https://t.co/aYpCj3goZQ from @jamesdotymd on @onbeing
#Rothamsted PhD symposium overwhelming to the brain. Hundreds of hours of research condensed to dozens of posters and short talks. Gives appreciation for the long, diligent, smart science work that brings us modern agriculture. Rows like in the photo.
Thanks @Vertellus for having @gowan at your @See_Chem_Bus table at the annual dinner. Heard from and about politicians doing their best for post EU UK. Now must #cometogether. @portilloandhen had us in stitches but observed there is no better Brexit plan
@GowanCo gratified to make a tiny contribution to @Rothamsted by supporting restoration of discovered portrait of Sir Henry Gilbert. Unveiling with historian Dr John Jenkyn and Peter Oxley of Lawes Foundation.