Nutrition Initiative Fails with 72.5 Percent Votes Against
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The food initiative demands a more sustainable diet and agriculture. Now it has clearly failed.
The environmental activist Franziska Herren wanted her head through the wall with her popular desire. At the urn she has now received the receipt for her political solo run.
EDITORIAL. The initiative for a safe diet was largely rejected this Sunday. It asked relevant questions, but the proposed solutions were excessiveThe issue of food is at the heart of our society's concerns. And it is fundamental because it affects both health, climate, finances and the notion of pleasure. Food also means agriculture, one of the most debated political issues in the federal chambers, where the peasant lobby remains extremely power…
Switzerland wants to achieve a self-sufficiency rate of 50 percent by 2050. However, population growth and limited soil make a switch to more vegetable nutrition indispensable, the strategy of the Federal Council shows.
The no is massive on the popular initiative "For a safe diet": 72.5% of the population refused the text submitted by farmers and researchers, according to the final results. The initiates wanted to make the country mostly self-sufficient.
Political scientist Jenny Roberts explains what the "no" to the neutrality initiative says about Switzerland, why the food initiative will fail – and why the issue is still of high interest.
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