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The sugar beet farmers groups have been trying to get emergency authorisation ever since the pesticides were banned. I feel like it isn’t a sustainable situatio
by dan-robertson 6y ago
The sugar beet farmers groups have been trying to get emergency authorisation ever since the pesticides were banned. I feel like it isn’t a sustainable situation and these farmers unions are either misleading or foolish if they believe these measures will be both temporary and successful. They also seem to have a weird line about the zeitgeist against refined sugar (maybe the article mentions this as a reference to honey but honey bees aren’t so badly affected by this chemical as bumble bees are) as if they are suggesting they aren’t producing refined sugar and that they are some important part of the future desired by the people who support the neonicotinoid ban.
- jimnotgym 6y agoI think this is especially troublesome from the National Farmers Union. They were simultaneously campaigning publicly to keep EU standards (to protect their members from cheaper imports), whilst privately lobbying the government to lower standards. They have lost an awful lot of credibility with environmentalists over this. For a bit of added intrigue, cane sugar producers Tate & Lyle were major Brexit supporters in order to get tarrifs on cane sugar dropped.