How toxic is the pesticides industry? | DW Transforming Business

[@Byzantion]

No we don't need synthetic pesticides or fertilizers... you can grow high quality food sustainably without polluting!

[@saritap.5265]

Not true. Try growing organically and having to use copper to control pests. You are obviously not a farmer or home gardener

[@militarymad2840]

Let’s see you go out in the fields to do all the extra work involved and then try and feed the world organically

[@TheDiversifiedFarmer]

World is not being fed in this method. The economic model is being fueled in this modality. 40%+ food is wasted currently. More jobs, better quality products and health through clean agriculture. US is way worse than Germany btw at pollution BUT the money is going there from the products. ​@@militarymad2840

[@MrDrak3f]

​@@saritap.5265I am farming organically and can tell you it is possible to grow anything with huge yields, you only need to change the approach (eg no monocultures)

[@delta_glider4362]

>you can grow high quality food I hope you talking about real natural botanic species not these eval breeds and cultivars 😁😁😁

[@TheOneAndOnlyLewis]

Anyone interested in this topic should read the book "Regenesis" by George Monbiot

[@ariadgaia5932]

There's so much I wanna say... but for the sake of peace? I'll simply say, "NO!" Anything that's poisonous or toxic IS NOT NEEDED!

[@worldsstongeststrains983]

Without pesticides we will have mass starvation. So what is your solution? Let 50% of the world starve?

[@TTTzzzz]

@@worldsstongeststrains983 They will anyway -> climate disaster.

[@ariadgaia5932]

@@worldsstongeststrains983 If everyone was taught how to cultivate and forage for their own food, we could cut pesticides and switch to permaculture farming. That then would also tackle climate change as permaculture farming restores soil which causes it to start capturing carbon from the atmosphere. People are dying all over the world from starvation right now simply because they have no money and don't know how to cultivate or find their own food because society has made that impossible and pesticides have poisoned the soil all over the world. Don't claim to care about starvation when the system we have now already causes a lot of it. That is all I'll say on the matter. 🖖✌️

[@delta_glider4362]

ozon - toxic, CO2 you breathe out - toxic, ammonia you piss - toxic, your saliva - kills and dissolve living creatures, strongest poisons - organic. 🤷‍♀

[@inotaarto8719]

As one on the video said: we would need more people working in agriculture to do this by hand 🤷‍♂️. As a homesteader i agree. If one in 10 worked a homestead, with work help and monetary help from the 9 others, its possible to produce most of the 10s food. Atleast in ny area

[@floydblandston108]

Mostly BS- the real problem is with the consumer. Over half of the insecticide and fungicide used could be eliminated if people didn't demand 'perfect' appearance of their fruit and vegetables- ask any home gardener!

[@astyanax905]

3:57 you'd have to be absolutely insane to fly that low lol

[@marcob1729]

Getting high off of the fumes AND the adrenaline lol

[@TTTzzzz]

Ploughing doesn't cause cancer.

[@marcob1729]

No, but it does use many more time the amount of fossil fuels

[@TTTzzzz]

@@marcob1729 True, but the subject was pesticides.

[@marcob1729]

​@@TTTzzzz lol then why bring up ploughing? You can't talk about an alternative to a method without also considering the caveats

[@fikirgunlugum]

If one of the farmer makes a fault while using it, the result is not cancer. You are right. He will pay by his life.

[@fikirgunlugum]

Also there is a lot of case farmers start case on Bayer because of having cancer and other diseases.

[@sba5415]

Since 2017 Syngenta is owned by ChemChina...

[@UldisCrystal]

I am kinda shocked that many of these weeds are not used as food. So many of those are edible and are great for salads or soup.

[@Pou1gie1]

@12:00 I wonder if Bayer uses this product in Europe. It seems it is just in S. and C. America that they use it.

[@fikirgunlugum]

They use and sell in Europe. We eat on our meals.

[@cristinawilliams8026]

We need a healthy planet to thrive…we know inherently this is not good or sustainable.

[@bryanpelletier6026]

Too late 😢

[@wannabefarmer813]

As a farmer my self , a cant see a future without controlling population. If population continues to grow we will need more land more crops more pesticides etc just solving the farming side of it does nothing

[@dudarsky]

A farmers view on this. If you want farmers not to use pesticides, then are you willing to pay 4-5x higher prices at the shops? If you want us to not use fertilizers, then are you willing to starve half of the population? All these green activists and couch specialists are hilarious, you know nothing about farming and yet you yell what WE should be doing. Instead of banning pesticides, herbicides etc. How about we create alternatives that ACTUALLY work and are affordable? Then no one will use any of the super toxic chemicals to grow crops. Also, if you do not want toxic chemicals on your plants, then allow farmers in Europe to grow GMOs that are pest resistant, grow faster to outgrow weeds and that are resilient to many of the illnesses that plants may get.

[@tomhenry897]

Very toxic Look at cancer rates

[@drhafizdgamer]

Pesticides..from caucasians to the world 🤣

[@JG-xi4tu]

You are welcome. We are glad that we enabled your populations to grow that much👍

[@agemmm]

Well I don't know but few thousand EU farmers decided for me. Pesticide regulation was watered down. There was no referendum that asks the whole population if we should allow such a change, no few thousands of farmers decided for us.

[@brokencliche]

Maybe becuz farmers know about the farming industry more than u ?

[@delta_glider4362]

@@brokencliche "know" or making money in others health expence?

[@dudarsky]

@@delta_glider4362 Bro really thinks that farmers are out to kill you. Tell me now, in this economic situation, could you afford to pay 4-5x more for your groceries? If the answer is no, then enjoy your affordable food.

[@JG-xi4tu]

What kind of hippie has written this? Different pesticides pose different threats, that have to be assessed on a case-by-case bases. 👉We need companies like Bayer that minimize risks, promote more efficient usage schemes and drive innovation. Because we can't rely on a bunch of nature-lovers to carry millions of tons of food to us. We need industrial agriculture.

[@brokencliche]

DW is a hippie channel in case u didn't know

[@volkerengels5298]

Written by a lobbyist... Fertilized with phrases. Nobody can be that naiv, Sir. With Bayer you would still eat DDT today.

[@JG-xi4tu]

@@volkerengels5298 Some in my family worked there before. They are good people. The people who work at *Bayer* are *good* people. They went to the same schools and live in the same places as other people and have no interest in harming them. 👉Answer me this; A farmer using their products has more yield. So he needs less space to produce the same amount of food. What is better for biodiversity? A forest next to an industrial farm, or a forest *replaced* by an eco-farm. I prefer to keep the forest, thanks.

[@volkerengels5298]

@@JG-xi4tu In Western Europe 80% of all forest is sick. (1/3 close to death) Climate change and so... "I prefer to keep the forest, thanks." Why talking about workers? They do not decide.... I like ppl to :) A jury in Philadelphia sentenced Bayer subsidiary Monsanto to pay $2.25 billion in damages because of the weed killer Roundup. Hippie jury? In Germany 75% decrease in insect population in a time span of 30 years. Main cause is -> pesticides. The agricultural industry promised to investigate - > The result was: "It wasn't us" That's deep :))

[@kevinmurimi2176]

​@@JG-xi4tuan eco farm nxt to a forest

[@Pou1gie1]

@11:09 "If something is safe enough to be approved by Brussels, we can assume it's safe." ...You mean the people who have committed multiple atrocities like cutting off the limbs of the Congolese babies, children and adults -- we can trust those ppl???

[@inotaarto8719]

You know what does not require pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, fossilfuels, or tractors? Grazing sheep on homesteads…

[@TTTzzzz]

DW, you just lost your credibility.

[@draft74draft65]

Less brain more pesticides!

[@JG-xi4tu]

No. Better use pesticides correctly. Mishandling causes damage to humans and the environment.

[@draft74draft65]

@@JG-xi4tu no need to. Everything is holistic in nature and of course if you break the chain, you’ll have infestation or misbalance getting out of control. Pesticide = sterility. Or organisms will adapt in a toxic way…Dead simple!

[@JG-xi4tu]

@@draft74draft65 Farmers get more food per area using them. That's why the market forces them to use it. Then, government controls are important. Like the strict EU guidelines, that protect us from harmfull substances. Now the farmers can only use harmless stuff like glyphosate, which is made out to be somehow bad by eco-gramdmas. I mean "probably carcenogenic" as the worst review of many🙄 Some german bread, sausages and coffee have the same or more dangerous labelling.