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submitted 1 week ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/world@lemmy.world

The country's main farming unions want to pressure MPs into re-authorising a neurotoxic insecticide accused of causing massive bee and pollinator die-offs.

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[-] Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com 61 points 1 week ago

Ah double standards, farmers are apparently in their right to block a highway but god forbid you would block a highway for a climate protest.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's crazy how the word Ecoterrorist got associated with the people trying to save the world instead of oil executives

Intrusive protest is always valid

Violent protest is always valid

Protest is always valid

People who say otherwise are cowards and bootlickers.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

Protest is always valid

I wouldn't go that far. Protests can absolutely be used to subvert true opposition by funneling it via astroturfing and similar fake campaigns into ineffective channels.

[-] Kickforce@lemmy.wtf 10 points 1 week ago

Absolutely,valid protest is valid. But it's not the act of protesting that makes someone right. I understand the farmers in that they get a tool taken from them that saved them a lot of time, and they probably have long term contracts with the companies selling that stuff. However they are objectively wrong to push for a product that is this harmful.

[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but...

But...

But they don't have tractors.

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