French farmers blocked highways around Paris on Monday in a bid to push the French parliament to adopt a bill that would loosen restrictions on pesticide and water use in farming. The country's main…

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.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    19 days ago

    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.