By Lutfi Dervishi
We serve meat with salmonella, we spray tangerines with pesticides, and over 50 types of poisons banned in the European Union are freely used in agriculture, but we continue to dream of the EU. Not as a standard, but as a passport.
Our European dream smells of pesticides. And it’s no secret. International institutions, public health organizations, media and citizen reports have all raised the alarm. But what do we do? We increase the dose.
Why?
Because we instill a light-hearted mindset: “Come on, we’re not getting anywhere!”
A collective mantra, a common justification for poisoning the land, our bodies, and our children.
A farmer who uses poisons to increase production is a bad guy, a state that doesn’t control anything is a bad guy, a consumer who buys them without asking, refusing, or reacting. So, at the end of the day: the millets are bad.
If this were simply a matter of ignorance, there would be a solution. But it is a matter of indifference and greed, fueled by the arrogance of impunity. Let us not forget: in the countries where these pesticides have been banned, they have been banned because they kill. And here, not only are they used, but they are promoted as the “secret to success”.
The IPARD funds that were given to Albanian farmers and ranchers have apparently actually gone to Brazilian farmers. EU funds for agriculture have been cut off because SPAK has no guts to investigate what has been proven by the investigations in Brussels. We continue with the sugary poison of propaganda.
Instead of stopping the poison, we have stopped the logic. Instead of implementing the rules, we make proud statuses for the export of “fresh Albanian” products that are then returned as goods dangerous to public health.
Now let us open our arms to the EU. Let us show them that we are ready for integration. With red lungs, tired kidneys and a system that can’t even protect itself.
5 more years and we get the passport.
But will we be alive to use it?
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