Think real

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We want to invite you to embark on a fascinating adventure. To discover realities you have most likely never thought of before. To have fun. To connect the dots. To know more, and enjoy the empowerment such knowledge brings.

Our job is not to prove to you that this organophosphate pesticide is worse for you than another, that spraying zones in one are slightly closer to a river than those of the others,
or that one neonicotinoid decimates bees /other pollinators faster than another. We will not show you deformities caused by various mixtures of glyphosate routinely sprayed on the cornfield or vineyard next doors.
We are far from blaming one company or another for just doing their job: making and trying to sell as many chemicals as expensively as possible to as many people they can.
Criticizing companies or individual pesticide users may be spectacular, but also counterproductive. People get defensive and don’t open up to the option of searching better solutions themselves. We as a society have to make an effort together, even if it may be implausible at first. We are all equal stakeholders in this and none of us has the monopoly on one option. If some of us know more, it is our responsibility to share the knowledge in a composed, sincere manner so there can be a rational dialogue. PAN SWISS wants to foster such an open discussion on an even playing ground. Definitey include all stakeholders - each one of us exposed without will to the effects of pesticides.

But you need to do your part. We can help you discover, so that together we can reflect on how we got ourselves into this pesticide mess and how we can get out of it. And realize out why we have to do so as a community.

It is not simple, but that is why it is even more compelling. The discussion about pesticides inspires reflections about food pricing; our own spending decisions; how our tax money is used; how visionary is the government; what is the story of the chemical industry advancement and how our society is trying to catch up; how science struggles to cope with financing and industry advocacy campaigns; where our cultural drivers lead out attention to. Basically, include some foresight into our thinking: where are we heading? Where are pesticides taking us, really? What are the accumulated consequences of our individual, daily decisions?