{"id":519,"date":"2017-04-12T15:53:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T19:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=519"},"modified":"2017-04-12T20:53:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T00:53:14","slug":"from-the-web-pesticides-are-not-needed-to-feed-the-world-un-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/04\/12\/from-the-web-pesticides-are-not-needed-to-feed-the-world-un-says\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Pesticides are not needed to feed the world, UN says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-521\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-12-at-2.41.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1194\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-12-at-2.41.56-PM.png 1194w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-12-at-2.41.56-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-12-at-2.41.56-PM-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-12-at-2.41.56-PM-768x764.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-12-at-2.41.56-PM-1024x1019.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-12-at-2.41.56-PM-302x300.png 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The idea that pesticides are essential to feed a fast-growing global population is a myth, according to UN food and pollution experts.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/daccess-ods.un.org\/access.nsf\/Get?Open&amp;DS=A\/HRC\/34\/48&amp;Lang=E\">new report<\/a>, being presented to the UN human rights council, is severely critical of the global corporations that manufacture pesticides, accusing them of the \u201csystematic denial of harms\u201d, \u201caggressive, unethical marketing tactics\u201d and heavy lobbying of governments which has \u201cobstructed reforms and paralysed global pesticide restrictions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/mar\/07\/un-experts-denounce-myth-pesticides-are-necessary-to-feed-the-world\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a> <em>(via The Guardian)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that pesticides are essential to feed a fast-growing global population is a myth, according to UN food and pollution experts. A\u00a0new report, being presented to the UN human rights council, is severely critical of the global corporations that manufacture pesticides, accusing them of the \u201csystematic denial of harms\u201d, \u201caggressive, unethical marketing tactics\u201d and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/04\/12\/from-the-web-pesticides-are-not-needed-to-feed-the-world-un-says\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Pesticides are not needed to feed the world, UN says&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,1],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-uncategorized","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-8n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}