{"id":179873,"date":"2017-09-28T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/28\/oh-snap-24\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:12:00","slug":"oh-snap-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/28\/oh-snap-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Snap!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>In response to reports that the EU scientific report on the safety of its glyphosate (RoundUp) weedkiller, where large blocks of text were copied and pasted from Monsanto application for re-approval<\/a>, the European parliament held hearings to investigate whether or not the agricultural giant exerted undue influence on the process.
Monsanto refused to attend the meeting, so the EU banned Monsanto and its lobbyists from the European parliament<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Monsanto<\/a> lobbyists have been banned from entering the European parliament after the multinational refused to attend a parliamentary hearing into allegations of regulatory interference. <\/p>\n

It is the first time MEPs have used new rules<\/a> to withdraw parliamentary access for firms that ignore a summons to attend parliamentary inquiries or hearings. <\/p>\n

Monsanto officials will now be unable to meet MEPs, attend committee meetings or use digital resources on parliament premises in Brussels or Strasbourg. <\/p>\n

While a formal process still needs to be worked through, a spokesman for the parliament\u2019s president Antonio Tajani said that the leaders of all major parliamentary blocks had backed the ban in a vote this morning. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne has to assume it is effective immediately,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m a pessimist, so I expect that, after aggressive American lobbying, the EU will re-approve the chemical, but I’d really love to see them get slapped down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to reports that the EU scientific report on the safety of its glyphosate (RoundUp) weedkiller, where large blocks of text were copied and pasted from Monsanto application for re-approval, the European parliament held hearings to investigate whether or not the agricultural giant exerted undue influence on the process.Monsanto refused to attend the meeting, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[525,368,630,364,374,437],"class_list":["post-179873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-agriculture","tag-corruption","tag-european-union","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}