UK to abandon EU standards shock horror

I got this from a former neighbour who for ten years has worked for the European Food Safety Authority – a tax-free appointment 

In the news: “Today’s Politico Morning Agri & Food covers the post-Brexit farming plan that the UK government presented yesterday. According to plans, UK will no longer be part of the European Food Safety Authority, which regulates the active substances that make pesticides work using the so-called precautionary principle, which obliges policymakers to err on the side of caution when the potential hazards are serious, even if the supporting evidence is incomplete or speculative. Pesticides regulation will be taken over by the U.K.’s Health and Safety Executive; UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson also trumpeted a ‘liberation’ from EU rules holding back the use of genetically modified crops.”

It seems that some people are blinded by the EU faith. My reply was “Job opportunities for you. Keep an eye on the appointments adverts. Where will they be based?”

The EFSA still has not banned glyphosate, and are unlikely to, seeing that Monsanto has been taken over by Bayer, the German company which was part of the giant IG Farben industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals group. It employed slave labour at Auschwitz during the war, conducted horrible and often fatal medical experiments on concentration camp inmates, and has always refused to pay compensation to its victims. The EFSA still permits a load of E-number substances which are known to be harmful. They are so widespread that it is hard to avoid some of them, including sodium and potassium nitrate and nitrite, and some colouring – which are banned in the USA. The EU's blanket ban against GM is ludicrous. People have been eating GM crops for 8,000 years. Whether a GM is good or bad depends on the GM. If it enables farmers to drench their crops in poisonous chemicals, then of course it is bad. If it results in improved flavours, or removes a natural poison from a plant, then GM is an excellent thing.

An interesting thing about the EFSA is that it employs only EU citizens. If the leading expert in the field is an American, or Chinese, or Japanese or Russian or Israeli, they will not be engaged. Whose interest are they working for?