”You can say the compound is very good at doing its job – killing insects. Farmers don’t spray if it doesn’t work. Thus, the problem is how to develop a non-toxic poison; a challenge for any pesticide.”
”The fundamental discussion is that those who want to market a product have to prove it’s safe and academic research is not a good counterpart. There is no independent entity that runs or re-runs the experiments on which all the conclusions are based. So the industry data are taken at face value. You have to assume industry doesn’t cheat.”
”The issue boils down to a question of how we value cheap food. In the end it will be a political decision on values.”