In episode 14 of ConsEUmer: 🇱🇹 Lithuania bans Chinese airport scanners 📝 CCC livestream on intellectual property rights 🧪 EU coordinates rapid tests 🇵🇱 New Polish taxes (w/ Marek Tatała)
The inconsistencies of the European precautionary principle
Genetic engineering continues not to be allowed in the EU, but random mutagenesis is Despite revolutionising agriculture, genetic engineering is not allowed in the European Union. I have laid out the problem with this EU legislation in other blog posts on this website. In this article, I want to explain the blatant inconsistency of allowing […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP13: Fake vaccines, New border closures, and Farm to Fork (w/ Kerry Hardy)
In the latest episode of ConsEUmer: 💉 Watch out for fake vaccines 🚗 Uber defends its platform workers (w/ Yaël Ossowski) 🛂 Germany introduces new border closures 🌾 The EU reforms agriculture (w/ Kerry Halferty Hardy)
[Podcast] Oppen Dieren Episod 3: OpenLux
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Red meat is not the enemy
Targeting meat misses the point The leaked EU Beating Cancer Plan layed out that Brussels wants to crack down on red meat, in an effort to reduce cancer in Europe. The European Commission considered dropping marketing subsidies for red and processed meat because of health concerns, but later reverted as it faced backlash. We now […]
Release of new policy note on genetic engineering
I have authored a new policy note for the Consumer Choice Center, on the issue of genetic engineering. You can read the entire document HERE.
EP11: Meat war, Czech food nationalism, and geo-blocking (w/ Ryan Khurana)
In the eleventh episode of ConsEUmer: 🥩 EU wants to restrict red meat 🇨🇿 CZ wants food nationalism 🍔 Veggie-burger fight continues 🚫 Geo-blocking for streaming (w/ Ryan Khurana) Follow Ryan Khurana on Twitter @RyanKhurana February, 4 2021 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
[Podcast] Oppen Dieren Episod 2: Budget vun der EU
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Understanding “hazard” and “risk”
A lot of the Brussels conversation over the precautionary principle is misguided. By 2030, the European Union’s “Farm to Fork” strategy aims to reduce the use of pesticides significantly. The EU deals in percentages of the total use of chemical substances it wants to cut, whether or not their scientific safety assessment was in any […]
[Video] Interview mam Paulette Lenert
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Bill Wirtz 