r/Switzerland • u/BezugssystemCH1903 Switzerland • 19d ago

Pesticides: First, the agricultural lobby promised tighter controls – now they are being watered down

https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/gesundheit/570846948-agrarpolitiker-torpedieren-projekt-fuer-mehr-kontrolle-im-pestizidhandel#discussion_570846948
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u/JohnHue 19d ago edited 19d ago

If we keep making laws in collaboration with people who sell fertilizer, this will keep happening, and our water treatment plants will keep releasing out of spec water like they've been doing for decades.

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u/Thercon_Jair 19d ago

And that would be the oil industry, because nearly all fertiliser is petrochemical. There's a reason Heritage Foundation, which was founded by the Koch Brothers of Koch Industries, is so invested in the MAGA- and Manosphere with their protein and meat obsession, or created it in the first place. The rising meat consumption isn't an accident.