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of view, he has also hoping someone will get him a ticket to friday. nice games also, so now up next in business news, pesticides, all useful, get comfortable to all health and environment. so kinds effectively comes in sustainable amino johnnies. thanks for watching the, the coming 0 st. excel's 3 trans people. stories is kind items that feed us complex stores and some, some of the sort of additional chip possession of the 3 generations. one journey starts july 7th on dw synthetic pesticides, the poisonous to the environment with our industrial food system as a dependent on the use of these toxic chemicals. we design plans and prompts
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systems so that they can compete with nature at the expense of nature. the good news is as a result, if we have something to eat, pesticide producing companies make billions in sales unless each key industrial food system, some place estimates scandals that some companies say they are working to make products that are most sustainable. so how damaging austin subject pesticide and to what extent we really need them to survive on so is coming up in this episode of transforming business. picking the pack joy one a to time is backbreaking work and especially when this evidence of unwelcome visitors, people in here is so when you can see it here, it's brown this fee. so the feeding tunnel, it's a very small cabbage flies, the cut up less than a through here. it doesn't look nice indeed. any additional questions on the status of this issue and also these pests, some of those or problems, the old farmers,
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but particularly here at cola, no comic vegetable, cooperative bass, stand like sick and germany. well, insects can attack the plants causing damage and even making the vegetables on sellable left to grow. we've choke of space and some lights given cropped, less chance to thrice when the invasion without fungicides and products like that, it would be very difficult to grow fruit. we would need a lot more people in agriculture to do this by hand if we wanted to do completely without it. when with all the comforts of this mind going up this from what? because don't use synthetic chemical pesticides instead they rely on biological emmanuel alternatives like flowing for introducing natural predators. it's more work the pharma jacob, clear nice things to has to be an end to industrial agriculture. may i think you can see the impact of this form of economic activity that we've been practicing since the 1940s in the extinction of species worldwide. it. com. keep on like this
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or vital game because it's a growing perspective here in germany. people are becoming as a more skeptical of synthetic pesticides. organic farming has grown from covering 2.9 percent of land to 1999 to just on to 10 percent in 2022. the crop protection industry has continued to grow to an estimated value of around $78700000000.00 in 2022. according to market intelligence agency, s and p global. the top consume is of pesticides worldwide. a brazil family in the lead followed in distance seconds by the usa, and then indonesia, argentina, and china performance in those countries space the growing problem. when you use one herbicides in lodge moans, the likelihood that you find resistance against it is increasing. that's biased head of sustainability mathias bounding and he should know bias leading pesticide round up retains gloves. the site. one of the most widely used type of sites in the
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world. tolerance has a building up over time against all of the who are besides news. meet palmer, i'm around a weed closing, have a component sleeping fields across the us and resistance multiple hub. besides including glasses, 8, a biased, corrupt science research laboratories and frank foot. the company is developing a new pest decide to come back this week and does around wanted plants that have become resistant to current decides they spray weeds with tests compounds using cameras to collect data or on their impact. the results is a new weed killer, a castle in the targets unwanted plants that have already and much from the ground . technology is essential by a scientist say, using artificial intelligence and a new approach. they cool kropke, they've been able to narrow down molecules, but specifically target the weeds and the to say so. so use of the environment and it's able to, for example, slow down the roles fall,
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killed the plant altogether. why is that important? every spring when a farmer kind of comes out and so uh, kind of puts new seats in the ground. those seats compete with the existing plants . was weeds the new hub aside to so i'm going a long time study to discover any risks as part of the eventual registration process. the famine, yes, as by a con, rule out all negative impacts associated with pesticides. what it will have negative impacts for sampling. biodiversity because it is designed to destroy plans. for example, some insects are feeding. now. flowing has the same negative impact. so a lot what is being said about the life of side and the negative impact on biodiversity is true. but it's equally true for flowing. but it's this expense tonight, so that's one of the major drawbacks to synthetic pesticides. say critics,
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what are those impacts? one of the most commonly known is the impact on fees and other insects vital and pulling these things. some of our crops around $1.10 b and butterfly species is threatened with extinction in europe. according to e, figures with pesticides among the causes. pesticides also degrade into soil, humming organisms that keep us healthy, like us ones. and to be told they can stay. that's the use and impact the soils ability to absorb carbon dioxide. then this water pesticides can run of fields and due to water sources, even making it into the ocean, poisoning, fish and wildlife. but it's not only pesticides the course and the damage experts say industrial agriculture in general is taking a huge told us by diversity basically produce a deadline guide is a conservation biologist. at itis,
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the german sent us an integrative by of us to research and the us the home health center for environmental reset. and so the current modem production is extremely efficient. we're producing a lot much more than we need in fact, um, but we are losing everything with it. we're losing the farmers, we're losing nature. we're losing soil and we're poisoning the consumers and the water. and that means that we really have to find solutions. proficient turns his mode of production without losing the capacity to produce enough food for a growing population. in 2022, the european commission adopted a proposal for new regulation with a wide targets to reduce by 50 percent the use of risk of chemical pesticides. by 2030, it was positive plans to reduce the environmental footprint of the food system and to help mitigate the economic losses. but the sustainable use regulation, as it was cold, was scrapped off to being bolted down with the service. blaming lobbying from
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pesticides produces the final proposal, pertain so weak that many political groups on the left and progressive they sold. this is worse than the know that from half. so we kind of left this past, nina holland does a research and campaign at n g o corporate to europe. it's of a tree which tracks business lobbying in europe. they were conveniently ends and ironically, helped by external circumstances like the cold with crisis and the war by russia and ukraine. that basic is fueled and you run the risk of saying we can't absolutely be cons. reduce the use of these substances right now because of, for security globally switched from syngenta is the biggest player in the pesticide market, followed by german companies, buy a and b, a ss us based, pull teva, and indian some, you know, the between 20202022,
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the company spent 40400000 euros along with crop protection and agricultural lobbying groups, lobbying against you policies, including the proposal and another 15000000 in 2023. and basically last day we're fighting for what's their own profits. it goes with a 50 percent reduction target, their profit to would have gone down to fruit as well. another major setback for campaign is, was the re approval of controversial cub aside like to say within the u. the pesticides is the main ingredient and rammed up a way to collect up by a to cobra when it bought to us our grow chemical company, monsanto, in 2018. the world health organization has categorized live for site is probably customer genic to humans, although via maintains its safe and the use europe and food safety authorities that it found no critical areas of concerns. european union has the most tricky
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way of proving pesticides in the process as the silicon valley of regulation. if something is even safe enough to be a full fi process, we can assume it's a but not everyone is convinced. most of the ceiling, we as an organization of work in the defense of human rights. and in that field of human rights, we work for the rights of food, the right to land, the right to health and the right to the environment that have come suddenly and that it to me, i'm in maria, who's safe and non seo is a human rights lawyer at the center for legal and social studies of origin, tina, along with several of the engine goes the center has filed a complaint with the organization for economic cooperation and development, the cd against bias business practices in south america. i did want to watch the maximum, it's based on a model of maximum profitability, but they're trying to do. it's a so the largest area of land that's possible without farmers, but directly through machines using genetically modified seats,
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but the package of poisons, that includes the life of states so that the land can into more and more. but it is land that keeps degrading. so that no other things can be planted there, interrupted the person better. according to the organ, nice ations, largely based in south america. on average, more than 50 percent of the agricultural land in argentina for sale, parkway and bolivia is cultivated with soybeans. many genetically modified to withstand the effects of life for state used to kill the surrounding we, they all use it as a result, people in the regions suffer from poisoning and serious diseases. the water sources can no longer be used, and the thousands of peck tests for us to being cut down to make waves. the soil being plantations threatening local animals implants. these are the direct consequences of the agricultural model promoted by the multinational. some european based agra chemical companies also continue to sell pesticides funds and the you in
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south america and beyond pesticides containing power quite a weed killer manufactured by syngenta link to parkinson's disease that has been banned in the e u since 2007 for example, and actually seen the 2nd most widely used type of site in the us. it cannot be that, that you hold still such double standards that it allows corporations to produce inside to in your products. it has long bend. in order to export, it's around the world to countries like from ukraine to ship now to south africa, to brazil, and do incredible harm to people, communities, and to the environment at large. with so many health and environmental drawbacks associated with fantastic pesticides. the question is, do we need them to minister for life? do not grow chemical since soft of sick? well, boyfriend just real farming production is rocketed in the decades that followed.
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but it's devastating populations of bees and other pollinators, destroyed soil and contaminated water. a new generation of pesticides, like those being developed by bio, could offer some solution, but only if it comes with a change in the way and quantity the pesticides they used, which banding us as the company plans to promote. so we are absolutely and stable for us and we also invest in digital electric hyphen which will change the wage for protection is applied drones, would apply it on the spot early on and not in a broad scale across all the fields. still stomachs, but say it doesn't go far enough and that's an entire over the whole of the funding system is needed to take away the reliance on chemicals. the current model of production is actually forcing us to use pesticides you can do without. so farmers are becoming more more dependent on pesticides because the larger of the field is the more sensitive it is to the tax. if you have large amount of corn and then
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you'll be attacked by whatever is at that attack in court, in the same goes for potatoes, etc. so you cannot really avoid pesticides without a more complicated solution. up you got a cooperative in leipzig was because of packing boxes to send out to the 1400 subscribers to the scheme of 35 hectic. the land is relatively small when compared with some conventional firms. but there were plans for the cooperative and sustainable model to move and double it size office visa, who evolved before them. and we have an extension of species that was unprecedented before human successes. and i believe that this equal system would continue to break down and decay and that life will become difficult for us sooner or later if we don't try to move in the right direction. my time is obviously with the lot. i think we can achieve an incredible amount to agriculture because our great culture uses and requires so much land worldwide. and i believe it would actually make a huge difference when it comes to buy diversity and climate change will be my
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a lot. i'm. i'm good. what do you think? should we be relying on synthetic pesticides to grow of crops or looking for alternatives? let us know in the comments below the, is this the kind of call you would bye? hope all is counting on its reports of experience to 1st tons just how long this traditional jim and also make us has been around one more time after losing money for 19 years straight. april was in crisis, then the com. i could go see it's not to get and it's now turning of profits in the future. it will only produce electric vehicles. will that look 10 or pro, make that ton summation to 100 percent, be comp for you. so let's check it out. also in this week's edition of maids is
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