Emergency Farming Law: Reintroduction of Two Banned Pesticides Splits Political Parties
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By paving the way for the use of two insecticides with proven toxic effects, Parliament and the government have chosen to align themselves with the demands of agro-industry and multinational chemical companies.
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MPs are to vote this Monday evening on the agricultural emergency bill which includes an amendment reintroducing the possibility of using acetamipride. One year after the petition to the two million signatories against the Duplomb law, censored by the Constitutional Council, the controversy could resurgence.
The agricultural emergency bill revives tensions around pesticides. Between support for the peasant world and environmental fear, Parliament must decide on the derogatory reintroduction of two substances...
Agricultural Emergency Law: Despite the Sling, the Government Maintains the Acetamipride in the Text
Before the vote in the National Assembly, Sébastien Lecornu announced that he would withdraw an article on water storage, but he maintained a provision on the descripted pesticide, at the risk of overturning his bill.
Emergency farming law: reintroduction of two banned pesticides splits political parties
A year after mass protests against the Duplomb law, Parliament is again debating bringing back acetamiprid and flupyradifurone. Essential for some, intolerable for others, the move is splitting political parties and civil society alike.
The new version of the text has been lightened to try to convince the centrist block but maintains the reintroduction of pesticides and a highly criticized part on the water resource
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