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Ask most people to name a pesticide and, if you are lucky, you will get two answers: glyphosate, and “the ones that kill bees”. That is already progress. Twenty years ago, says Nick from the Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK), the public had almost no idea what pesticides were, let alone what they do to soil, water, pollinators and the people who grow our food.<\/h4>\n

PAN UK is the only British charity working on every aspect of pesticides, from international treaties down to the weedkiller sprayed in a local playground. In this episode of What The Field?! we sat down with Nick to understand a system that touches almost everything we eat and yet stays strangely invisible. The short version: regulation is slow, the lobby is fast, and the people paying the highest price are the farmers themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":63687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[15],"class_list":["post-63684","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPesticide Regulation & Lobbying: A PAN UK Conversation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How pesticide regulation really works: PAN UK's Nick on lobbying, the revolving door and why farmers pay the price. 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