Reality scientific knowledge

In reality, not every indicator can be measured easily. For environmental indicators which are difficult to measure, measuring can cause substantial cost. Furthermore, detailed agri-environmental policy measures might be quite costly to administer. The interactions between different environmental indicators are not fully understood. In many cases, scientific knowledge of these interactions... 

Public trust in normal, everyday food products has somewhat eroded in recent years although our food has never been as safe as today. The imbalance between this reality and a mythical perception concerning the quality of our food needs to be neutralised in order to regain lull confidence in food products. This needs homework in our direct fields of activities, but also efforts in ensuring an adequate political and regulatory environment for our business which must be based on sound scientific knowledge and not on short term, opportunistic political orientation. 

Whenever science operates at the cutting edge of what is known, it invariably runs into philosophical issues about the nature of knowledge and reality. Scientific controversies raise such questions as the relation of theory and experiment, the nature of explanation, and the extent to which science can approximate to the truth. Within particular sciences, special concerns arise about what exists and how it can be known, for example in physics about the nature of space and time, and in psychology about the nature of consciousness. Hence the philosophy of science is an essential part of the scientific investigation of the world. 

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