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Day 171 #365DaysWild

Why are UK farmers reliant on toxic pesticides when their EU peers are not?

‘The UK has failed to ban 36 pesticides that are not allowed for use in the EU, as campaigners say it is becoming the “toxic poster child of Europe”.

Though ministers promised the UK would not water down EU-derived environmental standards after Brexit, there have been many of divergence since the country left the bloc.

Now, the country is failing to phase out pesticides that have been found to be harmful to human health and the environment at the same rate as the EU, according to research from Pesticide Action Network (PAN)’.

Reported un The Guardian.

Once again, evidence of equally toxic lobbying by the farming and pharmaceutical industries.