• Liz@midwest.social
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    11 个月前

    If I could fucking ban pesticides and antibiotics for agricultural use I absolutely would.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      11 个月前

      You’d probably kill millions of people unless you gradually overhauled the farming industry

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        11 个月前

        Well, yes, but also if I actually had the power to make that change I would do it gradually through a market system for exactly that reason. One can dream, though.

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          11 个月前

          One small change, Market systems are prone to market failures. They’re also rather inefficient, because there needs to be inefficiencies or else there’s no profit.

          No, the best path to reducing pesticides and the over reliance on fertilizer is regulatory, with people on the ground checking compliance. Our food supply is too important to be left to the inefficiencies and corruption of “market solutions”

          • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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            You need to have a role for the market. Central planning is a demonstrably bad idea.

            But a heavily regulated market is the sweet spot.

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              The sweet spot is in actually testing for, and enforcing regulations. Fund that part properly, and you’re most of the way there. It should also not need to be said that the testing and enforcement cannot be outsourced to some corporation, and cannot be self reported.