A major survey conducted by the NGOs Unearthed-Greenpeace and Public Eye reveals that five of the world's largest pesticide manufacturers derive more than one-third of their revenues from the sale of chemicals with proven hazards to human and animal health and the environment. The Giants
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It was not a good idea to find out this Saturday about the government's decision to set the minimum distance between homes and pesticide application areas at 5 or 10 metres. I was in the middle of reading the book "Psychology of bullshit" (1). And now we're swimming in
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It is 2019 AD. All of France is occupied by pesticides... All of it? No! Because a village populated by die-hard Frenchmen is still resisting the invader. And life is not going to be easy for the garrisons of polluters from the entrenched camps of manufacturers of products
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Everything can be found in French rivers and streams: from pesticides widely used in agriculture to urban and industrial discharges, from organic compounds left over from our activities to the micropollutants and microparticles in our atmosphere. It's an unsavoury cocktail, a large part of which has not yet been identified and of which we don't know what it is.
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Organic farming is definitely on the up and up. The latest figures published by the Organic Agency, which has been scrutinising this market for several years, set an impressive series of records. But behind these abstract figures, there are some very concrete realities. The organic origins, the organic products grown by farmers and the organic
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After a first edition in February 2018, the NGO Générations futures published on Thursday, June 6, a new report on pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables consumed in France, based on 13,300 official data produced by the French General Directorate of Repression.
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Between a tomato grown in greenhouses, without much taste but very cheap, and an expensive organic tomato, reddened by the sun in the open ground, more and more fruit and vegetable growers are testing a third way: the guaranteed "zero pesticide residue". With a small label
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Pure plagiarism. In literature, it's not very pretty, but in public health, it's very serious. In 2017, the European Union extended the use of glyphosate, the famous herbicide from the firm Monsanto/Bayer, for five years. This authorisation is the result of an expert report that plagiarized the use of glyphosate.
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This is Finland. A first is about to be made: a vaccine to protect bees has just been developed by scientists. It would be the first vaccine in the world, with the hope of halting the decline of this insect's populations, and avoid causing a crisis.
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Where do you buy the most pesticides? And which ones? The association Générations Futures - in partnership with Le Parisien - now presents a map of "phytos" which shows where endocrine disruptors and the most toxic substances are sold in France, by department and by category of pesticides.
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The information has made the rounds in the media: eating organic reduces the risk of cancer by 25 %! Launched first by the daily Le Monde, which made it its front page, the news aroused the enthusiasm of journalists from both the written and audiovisual media, some going so far as to claim that eating organic food reduces the risk of cancer by 25 %!
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Despite plans to halve pesticide consumption, France, Europe's biggest consumer, has further increased its consumption between 2011 and 2016, from 56,000 to 66,000 tonnes, according to Eurostat. And this at a time of growing concern about the risks to human health and the
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Interdiction du glyphosate en France au plus tard dans trois ans : face au rétropédalage du gouvernement, plus de 30 organisations de la société civile lancent une pétition. Emmanuel Macron s’est engagé en novembre dernier à interdire le glyphosate en France « au plus tard dans trois ans », après
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C’est peut-être la fin d’une interminable bataille : vendredi 27 avril 2018, les États membres de l’Union européenne ont adopté la proposition de la Commission d’interdire trois néonicotinoïdes (la clothianidine, l’imidaclopride et le thiaméthoxame) à toutes les cultures en plein champ. Ces produits suscitent la controverse depuis leur déploiement dans les années 1990.
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L’acte de manger est à la fois un besoin vital, un facteur de santé mais aussi un réel plaisir : quoi de mieux qu’un bon repas autour d’aliments savoureux, frais et bio ? Or aujourd’hui, une partie de notre alimentation est contaminée par des substances chimiques dont des résidus de
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Bees play a major role in food production around the world. Without them, there is no pollination and therefore no fruit or vegetables. The decline of bee populations looks like a great extinction. The causes are being sought, analysed and some of them are known. Phytosanitary products used in agriculture
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Les associations de surveillance de la qualité de l’air mesureront en 2018 la présence des pesticides dans l’air, dans le cadre d’une campagne exploratoire destinée à mieux évaluer l’exposition de la population, a indiqué ATMO France, qui fédère ces organismes. La campagne, pilotée par l’Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire
PlusLa Commission européenne vient de décider le renouvellement pour cinq ans de la licence du glyphosate, une molécule présente dans de nombreux herbicides, et considérée comme cancérogène probable. Le ministre français Nicolas Hulot souhaitait un renouvellement pour trois ans mais 18 autres pays lui ont donné tort. Alors que de
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The biomass of flying insects, which are essential to ecosystems, has decreased by more than 75 % in almost 30 years without scientists being able to determine the cause with certainty. The researchers, who have been conducting their study in protected areas in Germany since 1989, suspect that
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The morning of Monday 26th June had started badly for the defenders of bees and the environment. The new Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Travert, had hinted that he would return to the ban on bee-killing pesticides, a ban that was supported by the President of the Republic and his minister.
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