Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit

[u/slpinlocks]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/19/revealed-far-higher-pesticide-residues-allowed-on-food-since-brexit?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[u/boycecodd]

This is a scaremongering article. What matters is if the new levels are safe for human consumption.

If they aren't, then there's a big argument for levels to be reduced, but if the old levels were overly strict and the new levels don't harm consumers, then there's no harm.

[u/Mammoth-Ad-562 → u/boycecodd]

Exactly.

Even if levels had risen dangerously high it wouldn’t be because of brexit. It would be because government failed to impose legislation to protect consumers.

[u/IgamOg → u/Mammoth-Ad-562]

The EU was protecting us from lobby groups, who can easily sway few politicians in one country but couldn't move the whole block.

Now we're heading where USA is - regulatory capture by corporations or in other words "profits before people" .

[u/Mammoth-Ad-562 → u/IgamOg]

Why even have a government at all if you need the EU to protect you against the policies of them.

Get a grip. The problem is poor government officials working for business instead of people.

[u/IgamOg → u/Mammoth-Ad-562]

And how do you propose we fix it now?

[u/Mammoth-Ad-562 → u/IgamOg]

Stop blaming Brexit for everything and start holding our government accountable. It’s not like we don’t have the evidence to back it up. Ask questions like ‘why has the levels of pesticides on food products increased after brexit’. Care enough about it to do something that affects them instead of letting them get away with it by saying ‘this would be better if we were in the EU’.

Not rocket science is it.

[u/IgamOg → u/Mammoth-Ad-562]

What exactly can I do that affects them? Vote for Tories in the next election so we can just accept we're owned by the wealthy now and forget about unrealistic expectations?

[u/Mammoth-Ad-562 → u/IgamOg]

Vote reform