"When are we going to put nature above profit?" Pesticides, agriculture and biodiversity with Nick Mole

Monday, June 29, 2020

There are many schisms embedded into the modern world. A foggy distance between our actions and the fallout from those actions. The carbon output of your job, the manufacture of the clothes you wear and the final destination of the waste we create. The separation between what we eat and how it is grown is one of the largest chasms we face. To feed 9 billion people do we have to turn a blind eye to poisoning the land and destroying biodiversity? Is there a better way?

To discuss the lay of the land when it comes to pesticides, agriculture and industrial farming we joined this week by Nick Mole policy officer for Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK). Nick sheds light on what current farming practice constitutes, how Brexit will affect British farmers and where we are changing for the better.

Links

Check out PAN UKs website HERE

Toxic trade

Shout Outs

Levenshulme Bee Network

Nick Prescott at Manchester Meteor and his piece on the Manchester planning committee, read it here

Pesticide Free Stirling

Dan Jerrome- Green Councillor in Trafford