USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful pesticides

Re:USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful p... by Geimfari on Saturday June 08, 2019 @02:44PM (#20134236)

I'm not sure what you're referring to, the agricultural sector in Europe is rather strong. The US is the world's top exporter of food, but the Netherlands come second.

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Re:USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful p... by adventured on Saturday June 08, 2019 @03:46PM (#20134670)

Europe's agriculture sector is strong largely because of tariff and political protections that keep out competition. The EU's agriculture tariffs are about 100% higher than the US.

The US and Australia have the lowest agriculture tariffs of any major economies or groups such as the EU. Drastically lower in fact. Russia for example - a wheat juggernaut now - has agriculture tariffs over 3x that of the US.

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Re:USA lags behind EU, Brazil and China in banning harmful p... by kazen44 on Saturday June 08, 2019 @04:05PM (#20134795)

the CAP is their for good reason though.

Having your own food supply is far more important then having a free agricultural market. Also, it's not like the US is not guilty of this either, just look at it's massive corn subsidies.

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