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."
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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.
How much more respectful of the peoples' wishes can they be?
The EU is following the Communist tactic of two steps forward, one step back.
It would only take one season of the farmers in europe to STOP Producing Food to end all this crap.
“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.
How are they going to feed the hoi polloi on bugs if they allow the use of pesticides? Have you no heart?
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