Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill

  Nitrogen oxides kill people.  The revelation that a massive company would install software in its products to avoid being caught by regulations designed to reduce the products’ harmful impacts on human health is still a shocking one. It is deeply shocking. But given big industry’s record in knuckling down to regulation (tobacco and cancer,…

Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill

  According to the Guardian newspaper, the Expert Committee on Pesticides was told by Defra to postpone publication of minutes after refusing to back an NFU request to use banned neonicotinoids on oil seed rape. On Thursday Defra lifted the ban on use of the controversial neonicotinoid pesticides on oil seed rape seeds on an…