Anti-Ag U.N. Report Written by Attorneys Argues for Big Ag
(This is long, but don't miss the punch line) I was speaking with a reporter and she asked me about the February-March 2017 "pesticide and GMO report" from the United Nations. She told me that it basically said that pesticides are killing mountains of people and that GE crops were a problem. I think she was reading from a website that took this angle. I had no idea, but I asked her to send me the report and I'd provide a synthesis. She kindly did that. The report is actually by the U.N. Human Rights Council, a special report on the "right to food". That's a good thing-- right? U.N. Experts (all two of them, both attorneys with no evidence of scientific or agricultural training) present their opinions, yet it is reported as a United Nations Report. Actually it is a thinly-veiled promotion of agroecological methods to produce all food, trashing conventional agriculture as "industrial farming". It does so by focusing on the