The EU’s new “Farm to Fork” strategy pines for nature-friendly farming that’s completely disconnected from reality. Most people look at a gluten-free, vegan, sugar-free, organic, non-GMO, palm oil-free candy being advertised in a store with bemusement. Yet in the United States, aisles in supermarkets, entire retail chains, are dedicated to these kinds of products, which […]
Click down below to watch the latest “3 Questions to Policy-Makers” with Member of the European Parliament Mazaly Aguilar, on the issue of the Commission’s Farm to Fork strategy.
Click down below to watch “3 Questions to Policy-Makers” with Member of the European Parliament Ulrike Müller, on the issue of mycotoxin contamination.
As crop protection tools come under fire across Europe, there are impactful changes we can make to EU safety assessment of agriculture chemicals, that guarantee safe and affordable food for all. There are many countries that some Europeans will never visit, yet they eat food from these places every day. –For example, some readers will […]
Click down below to listen to the latest episode of Consumer Choice Radio, where I talked about some of my work in the Consumer Choice Center, and discussed the latest in the world of U.S politics.
Together with my colleague Luca Bertoletti at the Consumer Choice Center, I published the policy note “Illicit Trade is Dangerous for Consumers” just last month. I contributed content about the prevalence of illicit trade in the agriculture sector. You can find the entire paper HERE.
I was quoted by AgriLand.ie on the issue of a derogation for a COVID-19 GMO vaccine development procedure. You can read the full quote below, or you can visit the original source here.
Click down below to watch the Consumer Choice Center breakout session during the 8th Friedman Conference, which has gone digital this year.
A travers l’Europe, les protectionnistes du secteur alimentaire sont de retour. Avec l’excuse du COVID-19, ils prétendent que la concurrence commerciale internationale est un problème pour les producteurs nationaux. Dans plusieurs législations européennes, on propose d’imposer des quotas de produits locaux aux commerçants, dans d’autres ce sont des ministres qui font des appels au “patriotisme […]
Dëse Reportage gouf fir RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg produzéiert, an ass de 24. Mee iwwerdroe ginn. De ganze Beitrag fënnt een och hei. Dës Woch huet d’Europäesch Kommissioun eng nei Strategie lancéiert, fir d’Landwirtschaft an Europa ze reforméieren. De Secteur vun der Agriculture soll méi nohalteg a méi fair ginn. Déi sougenannten Farm to Fork-Strategie, also wuertwiertlech […]
Bill Wirtz 