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Swiss Mired in Poisonous Row Over Pesticides

posted by mrpg on Monday June 07, @04:27AM   
from the poisonous-pesticides-plague-the-pasture dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:

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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• Re:The initiative-writers got carries away (Score: 2, Informative) by js290 on Monday June 07, @04:33PM

  by js290 (14148) on Monday June 07, @04:33PM (#1142792)

  Mark Shepard on Restoration Agriculture - Fertilizer & pesticide runoff [bit.ly]... wild pollinator no sprays orchard mason bee [bit.ly]

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