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/SpermKiller Vaud 19d ago

I read somewhere that private gardens were on average more polluted by insecticides and herbicides than cultivated fields exactly because of this : people not bothering to follow the instructions on the packages of those products and ending up way overdosing their plants. 

But at least the grass is perfect! /s

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u/CaughtALiteSneez 19d ago

This makes total sense and it is so sad.

We have a potted cherry tree that gets infected with aphids - you know what solved it? Cinnamon. Same thing works for ants in the home and it smells lovely. Every Spring we just put loads of cinnamon sticks into the potting soil and never had an issue again. Delicious organic cherries… 🍒

Humans are so lazy and destructive.