Tag: agriculture
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Glyphosate Is a System Design Problem
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Mar. 17, 2026) — Glyphosate coordinates seed traits, tillage methods, planting schedules, labor allocation, and financial risk management in modern agriculture. It ceased being merely an herbicide and became fundamental infrastructure. Glyphosate dependence persists because incentives, market structures, regulations, and production models continually reproduce this reliance—even in the…
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From Big Chem to Your Table: PFAS Are Being Sprayed on Our Food and No One Told the Public
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 4, 2025) — They’re spraying PFAS on our food, and the public has no idea. PFAS—per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—are synthetic chemicals engineered to resist heat, oil, and water. Their carbon-fluorine bonds, among the strongest in chemistry, make them incredibly stable and essentially non-degradable in nature. Developed in…
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Conservation Easements: The Land Grab That Must Be Stopped
by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2025 (Feb. 12, 2025) — President Trump is surging at full speed to expose and stop the deep state’s drive to destroy the American culture of free enterprise, private property, and limited government. For over three decades climate change and environmental protection have led the lies to trick Americans…
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Who is Directing the War on Agriculture and Nutrition?
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2024 (Aug. 11, 2024) — Elite billionaire organizations and foundations, government agencies and activist pressure groups are funding and coordinating a global war on modern agriculture, nutrition, and Earth’s poorest, hungriest people. Instead of helping more families get nutritious food, better healthcare and higher living standards, they’re doing the opposite, and…
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Waging War on Modern Agriculture and Global Nutrition
by Paul Driessen, ©2024 (Jul. 18, 2024) — The World Economic Forum says the world faces a new crisis, “One-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food production.” With the world’s population expected to reach 10 billion people by 2050, it is therefore “urgent” that we launch a “radical” and “comprehensive” transformation of the…
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Science, Agriculture, City Planning, and Global Control
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2023 (Aug. 6, 2023) — Science In an August 2022, National Library of Medicine article “Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, How Philosophy of Science Can Help Explain Why Science Deserves Primacy in Dealing with Societal Problems” by Stefaan Blancke and Maarten Boudry [1] starts out: “Modern democratic societies tend…
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Childish Beliefs Drive Lethal Energy and Agricultural Agendas
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2023 (Feb. 27, 2023) — Many eco-activists (and too many legislators, regulators, judges and journalists) have trouble thinking beyond slogans. They apparently believe declaring ecological emergencies, repeating clever mantras, and issuing proclamations and mandates will create a fossil-fuel-free, organic farming utopia. In their dreams. Since 1950, American farmers increased per-acre corn…
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Agriculture Policy is a Climate Change Witch Hunt
by David Wojick, CLINTEL, ©2021 (Jul. 3, 2021) — Political debates over climate policy under the present zeitgeist of climate-change hysteria is like competing to see how many witches you can burn. This is how Professor William Happer described the situation after his recent lecture on the three greenhouse gases targeted by today’s draconian national…
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Suspect Science Threatens US Farming – Again
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2021 (Feb. 14, 2021) — Modern American agriculture has wrought miracles over the past 70 years. Conventional farm production per acre and overall nearly tripled, corn (maize) production increased 500% from 20% less land – and farmers used less water, less fuel, less fertilizer, and fewer pesticides and other chemicals for…
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Financiers of Poverty, Malnutrition and Death – Part 2
PRIVATE “PHILANTHROPIC” FOUNDATIONS KEEP AFRICAN FAMILIES DESTITUTE, MALNOURISHED, DYING EARLY by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Apr. 22, 2020) — It’s easy to farm organically in the wealthy, advanced EU and USA, where consumers can afford much more expensive organic meats, eggs, fruits and vegetables. It’s much harder if you have to deal with the insects…
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Financiers of Poverty, Malnutrition and Death – Part 1
PRIVATE ‘PHILANTHROPIC’ FOUNDATIONS JOIN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN FUNDING ANTI-TECHNOLOGY NGOs by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Apr. 19, 2020) — The UN Food and Agriculture Organization, anti-development banks, the Agency for International Development (USAID), NGO (non-government organization) pressure groups and other eco-imperialists are properly condemned for using their money, power, and control over trade and lending to…
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Bill to Reinstate Obama Pesticide Ban Ignores Science
HOUSE LEGISLATION TO BAN NEONICOTINOIDS IN WILDLIFE REFUGES WOULD HURT BEES AND WILDLIFE by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Jul. 20, 2019) — The battle over neonicotinoid pesticides rages on. In response to one of many collusive sue-and-settle lawsuits between environmentalist groups and Obama environmental officials, in 2014 the Department of the Interior’s Fish & Wildlife Service…
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Dear Mr. President: Please Exit Paris
“YOU PROMISED CHANGE” May 30, 2017 Are you are still wondering whether to Exit Paris? Overseas and US officials, environmentalists and bureaucrats urge you to Remain. But you promised voters you would Exit. Please keep your promises. Exit Paris isn’t about the environment. It’s about letting us utilize our fossil fuel energy to create jobs,…
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The Iceman Cometh?
COULD A QUIESCENT SUN PORTEND A NEW LITTLE ICE AG: A CHILLY ERA FOR HUMANITY AND AGRICULTURE? by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (May 11, 2015) — Mr. Obama, Al Gore and other alarmists continue to prophesy manmade global warming crises, brought on by our “unsustainable” reliance on fossil fuels. Modelers like Mike Mann and Gavin Schmidt conjure…
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Carbon Dioxide Won’t Cause Famines
IN FACT, MORE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 WILL SPUR CROP GROWTH – IF WE LET IT by Dennis T. Avery, ©2014 (May 31, 2014) — Historian Geoffrey Parker is the author of Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the 17th Century. In a recent opinion piece, he suggested that the desperate climate from 1600 to 1700…
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Commonsense Wisdom from African Farmers
THEY KNOW “SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT” REALLY MEANS SUSTAINED POVERTY AND MALNUTRITION by Kelvin Kemm, ©2012 (Jun. 13, 2012) — If you want to learn what farmers think (and need), talk to African farmers – not to bureaucrats, environmental activists or politicos at the Rio+20 United Nations summit in Rio de Janeiro. You’ll get very different, far more…