Kitchen Garden Forum

Anyone seen the article in today's Mail? Apparently, the EU commissioners are to vote on Tuesday, to have pestisides banned on alotments, public parks and golf courses. No more pristine greens! Also, banned near water courses. So much for the agriculture in East Anglia then.

Yes, I saw that too. I would like to know how they can enforce it. We will all be telling tales on each other. I wouldn't think the local boys in blue could cope.

Beryl.

What's the betting the French won't take a blind bit of notice for a start!

I was in the French countryside for a wedding some years ago, right in the middle of wine country and surrounded by miles of fields of sunflowers. Very early in the morning I heard a little plane droning overhead and when we emerged into the country lanes between the flower fields they were strewn with dead finches.
That's how seriously the French take such laws. What is the point of a law that's unenforceable? How do you enforce sensible laws in a country where the law has lost its authority with the public? Stupid laws lead to anarchy in the end. So there, felt in need of a blast!

Thing is, they will just not allow them to be sold in shops, and we will have a black market in pestisides!

Seems sensible to consider the effects of pesticides as an ongoing process.

If producers and retailers were obliged by law to list the chemical compounds used in production it might prove an eye-opener (and lead to very large packaging - or very small print). After all I am warned that my peanuts contain nuts and my biscuits contain egg and gluten.

Here's more balanced information than the Daily Mail:

http://www.neurope.eu/articles/78865.php

I won't go off into a rant - I'll just say that I would trust our democratically elected MEPs sooner than I would growers/farmers/producers and processors/retailers.

Alan

hi alan , i can only assume youve had little or no contact with our democratically elected representatives then

richard p wrote:hi alan , i can only assume youve had little or no contact with our democratically elected representatives then

Lesser of two evils, Peter

Dear Fred,

Quote. Lesser of two evils, Peter

I was unaware that George had joined the thread!
BJ.

Dear Johnboy, i'm going to make sure i have finished my lunch before i look on the forum again.
I either get put off, or end up choking with laughter.

Sorry Alan, but I wouldn't trust a green if I could see him/her. They are nothing, in my mind, other than scare mongers. As the saying goes (I think) Lies, damned lies and statistics. If they had their way, we would be back to the wheel, or maybe not that far advanced.They give the Ludites a bad name!They advocate an atmoshpher free from CO2, but are against the cleanest fuel, nuclear. I think they should get off their band wagon, and join the reall world. Still there wouldn't be any money in that!

Submariner

For goodness sake don't read this link - it's too long. But it relates to radioactivity in sheep in Cwm Prysor (a few miles from us). The restrictions on the sale of sheep were put in place reputedly following the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. Just coincidentally the valley lies immediately East of Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power station (now being slowly decommissioned, but operating at the time). No further comment!

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1991/Uksi_19910005_en_2.htm

Anyway, as for pesticides.....

Alan

Cant see what the problem is, just do like the French, agree to everything and ignore what don't suit you. Shallotman