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    Die Schweizer Regierung will „für immer Chemikalien“ in Lebensmitteln zulassen

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    1. deejeycris on

      – Poor people buy the cheapest food full of hormones etc.
      – They get statistically higher occurrences of cancer or other health issues.
      – They are poor so it’s not guaranteed they can pay skyrocketing health insurance premiums (not that they cover the cost of healthcare anyway).
      – With more people sick the government needs to increase health insurance premiums

      Logic.

    2. WalkItOffAT on

      Absolutely disgusting and it will definitely damage the consumer trust into Swiss meat, eggs and produce.

      I won’t feed my kid poison so that a few farmers can LARP. Government needs to expropriate the contaminated land. Pay the farmers a guaranteed salary and let them go clean trash out of our woods or something. I don’t care. I won’t eat the poison.

    5. Nice-Mess5029 on

      Can I ask an honest question to my brothers and sisters over the german side. Are you guys all into masochism?? Why do you vote for a government that actively promotes enshittification? No kink shaming but please I would like to know why.

    6. Dave_no124 on

      The correct titel would be:
      Swiss government lowerd the allowed pfas content in foods and now wants to extend the cut over time by 3 years so that organizations have more time to adjust.

    7. Far-Intention-3230 on

      Just loving everything about this. But of course people won‘t wake the fuck up to finally connect the dots between everything slowly going to absolute shit for the average citizen in this country and the political majorities they vote to uphold time and time again. Gonna blame it on refugees instead I guess.

    8. gustserve on

      While I’m not super happy about this proposal, it’s a bit more measured than other commenters make it seem to be. The proposal would allow blending foods above the acceptable PFAS levels into other foods, as long as the final product still has PFAS levels below the threshold. This exemption is only supposed to be in place for 3 years. Farmers who struggle to bring their production within acceptable levels will get government subsidies.

      I’m more annoyed about farmers once again getting special treatment and government subsidies. This proposal basically rewards farmers who didn’t do shit to decontaminate their production and in a way punishes farmers who actually did what they were supposed to do. Worse, it incentivises the „bad“ farmers to wait just a bit longer for this proposal to go through so that they can try to claim „hardship“ and rake in some government subsidies. In that regard this proposal does cause overall higher PFAS levels I guess

    10. RazeAvenger on

      Blended? Real „ThE sOlUtIoN tO PoLluTiOn Is DiLuTiON“ vibes.

      Fking dumbasses, didn’t work with water, won’t work with food. Further, doesn’t even take into consideration that people have diets – i.e., consuming food from multiple sources. Even if you want to argue there is an acceptable level in an individual food item once blended, it is completely irresponsible to push the burden to consumers that they do not (in aggregate) over expose themselves via intake of a variety of contaminated foods.

    12. xExerionx on

      Well its time to vote with your wallet… article says it will say on packaging if PFAS are inside… so grow a pair and dont buy the shit

    14. red_dragon_89 on

      People keep voting for right political parties. Of course that is the consequences.

    15. myblueear on

      Well. Swiss government at its best. First our farmers were allowed to fertilize their fields with sewage sludge, and now they want us to eat this stuff. In the meantime, they canceled a research-project about exactly this: PFAS and its effects in the swiss population.

    16. konradly on

      >Farms that are unable to comply with the limits must take measures to reduce PFAS or reorganise their business.

      People here are acting like the farmers are doing this on purpose. Do you really think they want PFAS in their produce? The land, water, fertilizer, pesticides and feed are contaminated with PFAS, mostly due to a lack of oversight by the corresponding authorities. The government has done very little to individually help the famers in reducing PFAS in their produce, I can only imagine the farmers are overwhelmed with the responsibility of doing the tests themselves.

      The government should finally crack down and more strongly regulate the actual source of the PFAS. Only then will we see an actual decline.

    17. Sensitive-Talk9616 on

      Honestly, if you read what this is actually about, is it that crazy?

      Some farmers have issues with PFAS and similar chemical levels being above limits in their animal products. This is most likely not due to the farmers themselves. The water is likely polluted upstream. Fixing these problems can take years, and it would be unfair to penalize the food producers needlessly.

      The solution — allow the sale of their produce if mixed with low-PFAS produce such that the final product is within the limits.

      From the consumer’s perspective, what they consume is within limits anyway. They will never eat a steak or drink a glass of milk with PFAS levels above the safe limits. Overall, this will slightly elevate the average levels, but only temporarily, as these measures will be phased out over the next 3 years.

      Only 0.8% of products have been found with PFAS levels above the EU/Swiss limits. A rough, back-of-the-envelope calculation thus leads to an expected effective elevation of PFAS levels by ~1%.

    19. Rino-feroce on

      The Party of the farmers is the same party sponsoring the 10million initiative…

    20. Time-Bonus3667 on

      These Swiss reddit is really eroding my trust on Switzerland. What’s going on.

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