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Re:Hundreds demonstrate against high rents in Zurich by seanmcdirmid on Monday November 06, 2023 @01:04AM (#38159390)
A lot of farmland is protected by local and federal laws. The Swiss don’t want to abandon their farmer roots even if they import most of their food these days.
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Re:Hundreds demonstrate against high rents in Zurich by alephnerd on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:17PM (#38165430)
That makes sense. I was doing some further digging into local govt in CH and I think this pro-agrarian viewpoint seems to be an SVP thing (who vaguely remind me of the Farmer–Citizen Movement in Netherlands, but a bit more mainstream)
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