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If a pesticide is banned to use inside the EU, it should also be banned to import into the EU products that were grown using that pesticide.
by dbdr 4mo ago
If a pesticide is banned to use inside the EU, it should also be banned to import into the EU products that were grown using that pesticide.
- remus 4mo agoSurely that depends on the reason for the ban? Say it is banned in the EU because of concerns about secondary environmental impact, a different country with a different ecology could reasonably decide to keep using it.
- ornornor 4mo agoCanadian lentils are sprinkled in glyphosate to kill them so they can be harvested (as the climate there doesn’t allow for this to occur naturally). They’re then harvested and shipped back to the EU where such a practice is forbidden. But it happened outside of the EU so it’s magically safe.
- _heimdall 4mo agoThis is nothing new though. A small number of poor countries manufacture goods and mine materials in pretty terrible conditions that are illegal in the countries consuming those goods and resources.
- _ink_ 4mo agoIf it is not allowed to be used in the EU, it shouldn't be allowed to export it. > Although these chemicals are not allowed on the EU market, they can still be exported from European Member States to third countries. From there, they can return to Europe as residues in imported food — a “toxic pesticides boomerang” that puts consumers at risk.
- consumer451 4mo agoThe term "blowback" has a lot of applications. For example in WW I, when chemical weapons were used and the wind changed, and you gassed your own troops. This seems like a new economic-chemical place for the term to be used.