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Switzerland: voters reject pesticide elimination

MP Filippo Gallinella: "Logically, it was like asking citizens to abolish drugs for them or for animals"

While the EU is about to approve the Farm to Fork plan, considered unrealistic by many, which also provides for the drastic reduction of chemical pesticides, the majority of Swiss voters have declared their opposition to the elimination of the same pesticides in agriculture. This is what emerges from the results of the referendum that ended yesterday. About 61% of citizens rejected the two initiatives...

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Berna, Svizzera, 06/15/2021 07:17
EFA News - European Food Agency

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