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 reporting, all have raised the alarm. But what do we do? We increase the dose.
Why?
Because we put a light mind on it: "Come on, we can't find anything!"
A collective mantra, a shared justification for poisoning our land, our bodies, and our children.
A farmer who uses poisons to increase production is a bad thing, a state that doesn't control anything is a bad thing, a consumer who buys without asking, without refusing, and without reacting is a bad thing. 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 apparently actually went 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 logic. Instead of enforcing 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's open our arms to the EU. Let's show them that we are ready for integration. With red lungs, tired kidneys and a system that doesn't even protect itself. 5 more years and we get our passport.
But will we be alive to use it?