The country’s main farming unions want to pressure MPs into re-authorising a neurotoxic insecticide accused of causing massive bee and pollinator die-offs.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s crazy how the word Ecoterrorist got associated with the people trying to save the world instead of oil executives

    Intrusive protest is always valid

    Violent protest is always valid

    Protest is always valid

    People who say otherwise are cowards and bootlickers.

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      Protest is always valid

      I wouldn’t go that far. Protests can absolutely be used to subvert true opposition by funneling it via astroturfing and similar fake campaigns into ineffective channels.

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        Absolutely,valid protest is valid. But it’s not the act of protesting that makes someone right. I understand the farmers in that they get a tool taken from them that saved them a lot of time, and they probably have long term contracts with the companies selling that stuff. However they are objectively wrong to push for a product that is this harmful.