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Swiss mired in poisonous row over pesticides:
[...] The Swiss will vote on Jun 13 on a proposal which, if it passes, would make Switzerland the first country in the world to ban synthetic pesticides.
Proponents seek to ban pesticides with non-naturally occurring chemicals - and not only for agriculture but also for public green spaces, private gardens, and even for killing the weeds on railway tracks.
The initiative, entitled "For a Switzerland free from synthetic pesticides", would also ban the import of foodstuffs produced with synthetic pesticides, so as not to put Swiss farmers at a disadvantage.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 07, @04:00PM (2 children)
> force other people
FTFY now I'm on board - save the planet, come on people!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 07, @04:11PM (1 child)
It is kind of funny when you look at it. All of these rules they're advocating and people are supporting would basically take us back to the times we sought to escape.
Peasants would be unable to efficiently travel, eat insects, be left for the birds after they die. The ruling class, for whom none of these restrictions will ever apply would fly about with greater than ever ease - no longer having to worry about the mass of plebs otherwise present, be wining and dining on meat that tastes even sweeter when you know 99% of people can no longer readily access it, and continue with normal burial tradition - the sort of bodies archaeologists millennia from now will dig up pondering what led to such dignified and rare treatment.
(Score: 1) by js290 on Monday June 07, @04:37PM
Redesigning Civilization Toby Hemenway Clash of cultures HG vs agriculture "There are structural problems with a civilization built on agriculture... Sitting Bull and his people had no use for these laws... There was nothing the US govt or agriculture could offer them. They really were the freest people in the world... so [US govt] exterminated them." [bit.ly]