Banned pesticides on wild mushrooms and black tea and, above all, the limit value exceeded by up to 100 times! Consumer protectionists and the media sensed a major food scandal. But things turned out quite differently. Udo Pollmer followed the trail of the poison.

by Udo Pollmer / January 26th, 2019

Finally, the cause of dubious residues that has made the tea industry hold its breath for years has been identified. It is about nicotine and anthraquinone contamination. Consumer protectionists naturally...

(When horses were fed a lot of oats, the husks stung at the anus, which resulted in a rather lively behavior. Therefore, the phrase "Stung by the oats" as a sign of cockiness.)

by Udo Pollmer / June 7, 2021 - updated Sept. 2023

As the list of side effects from soy milk grows longer and more unappetising, despisers of dairy products are now turning to a similar liquid, this time made from oats. Fortunately, oats do not have any of the nasty side effects of soy.

From the point of view...

by Udo Pollmer and Klaus Alfs

The number of wolf attacks is increasing dramatically. Cold-bloodedly, "wolf experts" try to gloss over the drama. Victims of their do-gooder activism are the animals in the care of humans. But also the people and their economic bases. Klaus Alfs and Udo Pollmer report from the bloody front of the ideologists.

The fascinating thing about the wolf is that...

by Klaus Alfs and Udo Pollmer

In the Lord’s name

He had finally succeeded to fit an alpha wolf male with a radio tracker! On 24 February 2023 the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment announced: "We can now collect a lot of authoritative data on wolf behavior such as migration routes, approaches to livestock or humans, from which...

by Udo Pollmer

Wherever people live, clean drinking water is needed, and not in short supply. With the vast amounts of water that are consumed, it is easy to get the impression that we will eventually run out. 

The German Federal Environment Agency knows how to address these fears: "In the future ... more groups of users than today will compete for an increasingly scarce resource. Therefore, we have to think about a fair distribution in case of prolonged drought, i.e. about a prioritisation that...