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EU Commission set to scrap plan to halve pesticide use after farmer protests
Reuters ^

Posted on 02/06/2024 10:46:10 AM PST by Tench_Coxe

BRUSSELS, Feb 6 (Reuters) - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday proposed withdrawing the EU's plan to halve the use of pesticides, calling it a "symbol of polarisation" as regional farmers protested over rising costs and other factors.

"Our farmers deserve to be listened to," Von der Leyen told the European Parliament.

"I know that they are worried about the future of agriculture and their future as farmers. But they also know that agriculture needs to move to a more sustainable model of production so that their farms remain profitable in the years to come."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agriculture; europe; pestcontrol
Gee. How magnanimous.

If the EU operates like Biden regime DC (I posit they do), they'll now be looking to pick off the farmers one at a time or in select groups, to 'make an example' of them.

1 posted on 02/06/2024 10:46:10 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe
Apply three new regulations and then hesitatingly take back one.

How much more respectful of the peoples' wishes can they be?

2 posted on 02/06/2024 10:52:30 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: Tench_Coxe

The EU is following the Communist tactic of two steps forward, one step back.


3 posted on 02/06/2024 10:53:18 AM PST by Wallace T. ( )
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To: Tench_Coxe

It would only take one season of the farmers in europe to STOP Producing Food to end all this crap.


4 posted on 02/06/2024 11:09:16 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Wallace T.

“The EU is following the Communist tactic of two steps forward, one step back.”


Actually they are following the Communist tactic of deliberately engineered famine.


5 posted on 02/06/2024 11:16:06 AM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Tench_Coxe

How are they going to feed the hoi polloi on bugs if they allow the use of pesticides? Have you no heart?


6 posted on 02/06/2024 6:00:22 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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