US EditionFrench Farmers Push for Risky Pesticide Re-Introduction
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Animal protectors, Global 2000 and Greenpeace react outrageously to "the agrarian lobby's pickling attack against our helpless bees. Yellow already shines there and there the fields. But behind the golden rapeseed glow an old agrarian temptation lurks: pesticides that have been banned in the EU for years should return! Lorenz Mayr, Vice President of the Lower Austria Chamber of Agriculture, had seen the end of the rapeseed cultivation approach, …
It provides for the re-introduction of an insecticide that could increase production, but also have negative effects.
French farmers push for risky pesticide re-introduction
French farmers are planning to block highways around Paris from Monday to push the French parliament to adopt a bill that would loosen restrictions on pesticide and water use in farming. The country's main farming unions want to pressure MPs into re-authorising a neurotoxic insecticide accused of causing massive bee and pollinator die-offs.
Professor of the Faculty of Chemistry in Belgrade Dušan Veljković spoke for Euronews Serbia, juronjuz Serbia, euronews Serbia, euronews Serbia, euronews Serbia, juronjuz, euronews
French Farmers Take to the Streets as Macron Bows to Brussels on Green Rules
The latest protest by French farmers, which brought much of the city to a standstill on Monday, marks a dramatic turning point in the simmering battle between rural France and the green zealotry increasingly emanating from both Brussels and the Élysée Palace. Hundreds of farmers descended on the capital, their tractors emblazoned with banners reading “Non à la dilution des règles!” and “Nos terres, nos lois”—a clear rebuke to government plans to…
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