The point here isn’t that the stuff is healthy. It’s just not dangerous enough. Despite a lot of research there still was no link to cancer proven. I.e. at worst there’s a very, very small risk (to consumers that is, the people who use it should use PPE). And on the other side we do have very serious negative effects such as a further rise in the cost of living and threatening the food supply if we decrease the yield of farmers.
So unless we’re willing to chose more drastic solutions - e.g. removing all subsidies on livestock farming (meat is horribly inefficient, if less were produced the prices for plant based products would fall drastically) - this is the lesser evil.
We should use more drastic solutions tho. Not only those you mentioned but also we need to subsidise precision agriculture, ban monocrops and phase out pesticides in favour of a more biotech approach.
This isn’t the lesser evil because the other choice isn’t evil. In fact, if we keep going like this we won’t just experience a relatively minor reduction in food production, we will have close to no production and little to no suitable soil for agriculture.
This isn’t the lesser evil because the other choice isn’t evil. In fact, if we keep going like this we won’t just experience a relatively minor reduction in food production, we will have close to no production and little to no suitable soil for agriculture.
Sure, but that’s all long term. Whether they really need to extend glyphosate by 15 instead of 5 years however is a good question.
To be honest, that’s probably the right decision.
The point here isn’t that the stuff is healthy. It’s just not dangerous enough. Despite a lot of research there still was no link to cancer proven. I.e. at worst there’s a very, very small risk (to consumers that is, the people who use it should use PPE). And on the other side we do have very serious negative effects such as a further rise in the cost of living and threatening the food supply if we decrease the yield of farmers.
So unless we’re willing to chose more drastic solutions - e.g. removing all subsidies on livestock farming (meat is horribly inefficient, if less were produced the prices for plant based products would fall drastically) - this is the lesser evil.
We should use more drastic solutions tho. Not only those you mentioned but also we need to subsidise precision agriculture, ban monocrops and phase out pesticides in favour of a more biotech approach.
This isn’t the lesser evil because the other choice isn’t evil. In fact, if we keep going like this we won’t just experience a relatively minor reduction in food production, we will have close to no production and little to no suitable soil for agriculture.
Sure, but that’s all long term. Whether they really need to extend glyphosate by 15 instead of 5 years however is a good question.
Long term? We’re in the “long term” already.
Nope. We should be, but we aren’t.