Kees van Veluw
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Column: What are you WURth?
- The management has explained the finer details of the WUR system to us. If, like me, you only teach, your chair group doesn’t get enough income... -
Column: Joy
- State secretary Martijn van Dam was quoted in the paper recently as saying that animals are sensitive beings and should be treated as such. It made me... -
Column: Social side effects
- There is a story behind every foodstuff. Every foodstuff should therefore come with its own leaflet telling us about its primary and side effects.... -
Column: Moral questions
- The Spot was jam-packed when Joris Luyendijk gave his talk about banking. He had a convincing message, explaining that the financial crisis was... -
Column: Billboard
- An intern can bring about a sea change in European agricultural policy, as is so beautifully shown in the play about farmer and politician Sicco... -
Column: Thinking
- Mahatma Gandhi. I love that man. Such fantastic one-liners, full of deep wisdom and insight. This quote, for instance, caught my attention:... -
Column: Dictatorial methods
- You don’t start legitimizing in vitro meat just because it lets you off the animal welfare hook at one blow, do you? What kind of speciousness... -
Column: Anne Frank
- This year it is 70 years since the Second World War ended, an event that is being widely marked by remembrance services. On 4 May we remember the dead... -
Column: Early morning
- Every day before breakfast I take my dog for a walk. What riches. Sometimes I switch off my senses, but today I turn them on and just tune into... -
Column: Earnings model
- Oxfam reports that last year 85 and this year 80 people have the same amount of wealth as the world’s poorest 3.5 billion citizens. In 2014 the...