Non-aerial blitzed vineyards in Touraine
Call for Blanket Ban on Aerial Spraying of
Pesticides
French producers in the firing line for the
aerial spraying of pesticides.
Posted Tuesday, 24-Jul-2012
A group of French agricultural associations
are calling for a “total ban” on spraying pesticides from the air, which would
take in the many wine regions currently granted an exemption.
The Grenelle law, passed in 2010, banned
farmers from spraying pesticides on crops from helicopters and planes but
allowed special exemptions. Two years on, four non-governmental organisations,
including the National Union of French Beekeepers, the National Federation of
Organic Farmers, and the country’s second largest agricultural union, the
Confédération Paysanne, have joined together to lodge a protest. They claim
that there are now too many exemptions, making a mockery of the ban.
“The exception is becoming the rule,” said
a spokesman for the collective.
Read the rest on wine-searcher magazine here.
http://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2012/07/call-for-blanket-ban-on-aerial-spraying-of-pesticides
Oddbins' Olympic protest:
Oddbins takes stand against Olympics marketing rules |
Written by Gemma McKenna (harpers)
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Tuesday,
24 July 2012 15:11
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Oddbins has called on small businesses to find creative ways to circumvent the “legal straitjacket” surrounding the Olympics, and has developed its own off-the-wall marketing push. Read the rest here. 30% discount:
Oddbins' staff have been told that anyone coming into an Oddbins shop with the following collection will be entitled to a 30% discount:
'anyone wearing Nike trainers and has in
their pocket a set of Vauxhall car keys, an RBS MasterCard, an iPhone, a
bill from British Gas and a receipt for a Pepsi bought at KFC will
receive 30% off their purchase.'
The conditions set the bar at a level but
surely not impossibly high...
Oddbins shop window@London Bridge
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