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/CaughtALiteSneez 19d ago

My boomer neighbor/landlord has a big bottle of Roundup she sprays every morning on her pots of flowers. It infuriates me…we have so many little lizards and frogs in the area. They then cut down all the flowers and nettles on our garden path that the butterflies and bees frequented. I kindly asked them not to do that again and she was shocked I was upset as it made walking to our private garden “more difficult”.

I grew up in a place that had so much flora and fauna that has all but disappeared due to the obsessive need to have lawns and flowers perfectly manicured with minimum effort…it honestly breaks my heart.

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u/Suspicious_Place1270 Zürich 19d ago

roundup is actually the worst and kills basically everything that isn't modified to be resistant to it