A pesticide ban harms the farmers?
Pesticides harm people.
When two quarrel, the third enjoys.
“Farmers need pesticides to secure their crops and income”.
But why should they secure it with dangerous toxins?
Their incomes could also be secured with a pest insurance: Yield losses due to butterflies, mold and other natural pests would be reimbursed by the state, like the damages caused by lynxes, wolves, bears and late frost.
The costs of such an insurance would be too high? It would be the simplest, cheapest and most efficient way to reduce civilisation diseases. Pesticide contaminated food is the dumbest possible method of saving money.
The big taboo question in agriculture: What do we need pesticide industries for?
What can they do that farmers can’t? To produce food, we need arable land, rain, seeds, manure, machines, farmers and their knowhow. Nothing more.
And pesticides, because they secure the yield? With a best professional practice there are hardly many problems in the fields. Because the most profitable of all investments is professional competence.
The only real lack in agriculture is the lack of appreciation of the real experts in the field: With their concepts of an evil nature and of inept farmers, the chemical industries succeeded in denying not only the professional competence to the only food producers that are really needed, but even their right to exist.
Pest insurance instead of pesticides is like speed bumps instead of radar traps: Clever instead of techno-overdrive.
The hyper-parasites
Farmers don’t need pesticides. They need a secure and fair income.
A pest insurance is a win-win solution for all: For farmers, consumers and the environment.
Except for the pesticide industries. But the damages they cause are infinitely worse than the modest yield losses caused by beetles, butterflies and fungi.
The agricultural policy entrusts the agricultural leadership to the toxin industries and pretends, that we cannot afford fair wages for the farmers, and even less a healthy food production. But only a gigantic pesticide industry, the astronomical profits of their managers and investors, and the enormous costs of civilization diseases.
The only real problem of agriculture is the untouchable Leadership of the poison industries over food production.
The pesticide industry is a superfluous parasite, with the typical characteristics of parasites: They are incapable of feeding themselves, they have to take over the work of others.
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We better pay for the damages of bear, wolf and even butterflies than for those of the poison industry.
If you are afraid of horses, you will never win a race.
A pest insurance? How can a pest infestation be detected cheaply and correctly?
With a contest: The best and easiest pest app for mobile phones: Overall photos of the central infestation and zoom image, and five additional photos each five meters apart, straight across the field, all photos with automatic GPS and dates.
Please send suggestions to the ministry of agriculture. Because it will reject such an efficient and quick solution to the problem…
… voluntary websites or groups may choose the winner of the contest in order to try to help the governments to protect public health for free but quickly and efficiently.