Modern agriculture, pollution and public health

[Christophe]

A small video to watch: http://www.koreus.com/video/alerte-babylone.html

[toto65]

impressive.
In any case, he masters his subject.

[Christophe]

Impressive I don't know if it's the right word ... I would say rather sorry ...



Here is the same mirrored video:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ds9p_alerte

ps: you can order the full DVD (Alert in Babylon) here: http://voiretagir.com/images/adhesion.pdf

[toto65]

Here is a program of 43mn on the subject of agriculture.
Note how the guest mentions agrofuels in place of the journalist's term biofuel.
Many subjects are raised. Speculation, crises, soil depletion, FAO GMO.
to go quickly, skip 17th minute then 22nd minute.
Good listening.
https://www.econologie.info/share/partag ... Bqgsl9.mp3
The original is 40MB.

[moinsdewatt]

The mad cow remember?
It was before the birth of this forum.

Dismissal required in the investigation into the mad cow case

The World | 14.04.2014

The Paris prosecutor's office requested in November 2013 a general dismissal from the investigation into the mad cow food scandal, opened in 1997, according to a judicial source cited by AFP, confirming information from the Parisian.

The judicial investigation had been launched in 1997 after a series of complaints, the first of which had been filed in June 1996 by the French Union of consumers (UFC) for "deception on the substantial quality of a product" and "falsification ". Agricultural unions had also joined suit.

The investigation focused on the importation of British cattle and animal meal since 1989, and their consequences on the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, mad cow disease) in France. Four people, managers of a feed manufacturing plant, had been indicted in this case, some for deception or falsification. One of the four has since died.

CLOSED INVESTIGATION

The investigation is now closed. And the Paris prosecutor's office requested a general dismissal on November 19, according to the judicial source. For the prosecution, on the one hand, it has not been shown that the products sold by these factories contain animal proteins. On the other hand, no desire to circumvent the laws could be characterized among the people under investigation, according to the same source.

Faced with the large number of BSE contaminations in Great Britain, France had unilaterally decided in March 1996 to suspend the import of British beef, a decision confirmed a few days later at Community level by the European Commission. This French embargo was lifted in September 2002.

The existence of a link between the appearance in young subjects of the human form of mad cow disease and this massive epidemic of BSE was first recognized by the British government in March 1996. A 27th case of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease variant (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, had been listed in France in 2012.

http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2 ... _3244.html