Fast forward to 2026, and the bloc has shelved the mandatory reduction regulation for good. What’s more, in an effort to remove regulatory burdens for companies, the EU’s executive body is now considering approving most pesticides permanently.
Fast forward to 2026, and the bloc has shelved the mandatory reduction regulation for good. What’s more, in an effort to remove regulatory burdens for companies, the EU’s executive body is now considering approving most pesticides permanently.
Those might be wise words if one had shit for brains and was born yesterday. Get the fuck out of here.
Yeah great argument…
In the EU some varieties of potato are sprayed with known carcinogen fungicides on a regular schedule of every 10 days, in the actual growing crop. THAT is insane. Somehow no environmentalist focuses on that even though the environmental and health impact is unbelievably worse than using a pre-sowing glyphosphate application. If you want to ban every single pesticide, including glyphosphate, I would say fair enough. But singling out glyphosphate while ignoring the rest is uneducated at best and actively damaging the goals of the environmentalist cause at worst.
Herbicide use dwarfs the others, with the exception of a few crops like oranges and potatoes if they’re being attacked by fungi.
Herbicide runoff is omnipresent, it’s everywhere, it’s a big fucking problem. If you don’t realize that, you are either ignorant or in League with the enemies of life on Earth.
Glyphosate is the most commonly used herbicide in the world by the way, atrazine is the second, they’re both awful. And the rest are not good either.
I have a degree in agricultural science and work with farmers on a daily basis. I’m far from ignorant on this topic. However from your post history I see you are Canadian and that gives me a bit more understanding of your perspective. I know in Canada (at least when I was last updated on your regulations) you use GMO roundup ready crops where you spray glyphosphate in growing crops. It’s also legal to spray glyphosphate on crops to kill and dry them before harvest. That increases the risks enormously. You may not know this but both of these uses of glyphosphate are not legal in the EU. I would absolutely support Canada banning use of glyphosphate on living crops.
I’m not a Canadian I’m an american. And people with degrees in the field of the last people we can trust nowadays unfortunately. You learn from experts, but they weren’t actually experts were they? You think they were though.