Destruction of biodiversity (pollinators, vertebrates, birds and even mammals), pollution of surface water and the groundwater tables, as well as exposure by all human beings to toxic pesticides – such is the troubling and unforgiving picture of the impact that pesticides have on the environment, described on Thursday 6 September by three scientists and the NGOs that attended the last hearing organised by the special PEST committee of the European Parliament.
It is essential to take into...