This event will discuss the European Union's recent consensus to institute new criteria that could ultimately blacklist about fifteen percent of the EU pesticides market used by the agricultural and pest control industries.

What is the proper balance between crop protection and environmental and public health considerations? AEI scholar Jon Entine explores this question in a new edited volume, Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?

The EU's new regulations on pesticide use are designed to protect public health. But they could end up harming it instead.

Members of the European Parliament are against the use of pesticides, but also want to stop the spread of malaria.

In late May, a deadly mutant strain of E. coli broke out in Germany and spread across at least 12 countries. The bacterium, which is more toxic and infectious than any other known strain of E coli, left 1,800 infected and 18 dead by early June.

In attempting to ban pesticides, policymakers are overlooking the risk of insect-borne diseases.

Patrick Moorebelieves thatGreenpeace and the mainstream green movement lost its science and logic and became driven by an anti-corporate, anti-globalist agenda