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Farmworkers Lose Protections as Pesticide Rules Loosen

EU farm-subsidy labor protections, Ottawa’s pesticide and Bill C-39 environmental rollbacks, and EPA’s retreat from factory-farm air enforcement are being sold as food-security and competitiveness measures while Budget 2026 leaves one in three Canadians skipping meals. The same pattern runs through UK “Be Ready” food stockpiling and grain-shipment attacks: public capacity is narrowed to corporate project approval and household self-provisioning, with farmworkers, rural water systems, and consumers absorbing the risk.

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