Poland will not reopen its border to Ukrainian grain imports regardless of what the European Commission decides this week.
Imports of Ukrainian grain, including wheat and maize, are currently banned from the territory of five eastern EU countries — including Poland, Hungary and Romania — under a deal struck with Brussels earlier this year. Only transit to other destinations is allowed.
The U.S. Banned Farmers From Using a Brain-Harming #Pesticide on Food. Why Has It Slowed a Global Ban?
Chlorpyrifos is so harmful that America banned its use on food.
But a top #EPA official made it clear that the U.S. was not ready to support similar protections for the rest of the world under a treaty that restricts #pollutants that travel the globe.
@ProPublica Perhaps there is a clue that the #CorporateOligarchy that ultimately rules has prevailed: “Many developing countries look at it [the Stockholm Convention] as an opportunity for greater protection,” said Joe DiGangi, a chemical expert who began attending the yearly meetings of the Stockholm Convention in 2005. “The U.S. often looks at it as a threat to their industry.” #Food#FoodSafety#Pollution#News#Imports#Pesticides
I created this account on 6/6/23, intending it to be my replacement #Instance for my current/active one https://kolektiva.social/@MsDropbear. However back then, after doing all my #Imports et al, i halted my changeover & placed this https://infosec.exchange/@MsDropbear42 on-hold. That was coz i was disappointed, indeed frustrated, that several of my desired #Follows, each of which work fine in #kolektiva, seemed to work only partially or not at all in #infosec. Huh?
Every now & then i've logged back into this account to check if they're better, & no they're not. That's a bugger, coz the infosec.exchange Instance seems to have several nice GUI enhancements over other #Mastodon Instances' #browser websites' #AdvancedWebInterface, which would be good to use.
So, a bit of a #Catch22; make infosec.exchange my new full-time daily home & accept the effective loss of those Follows, or stick with the fully-available Follows but slightly less sophisticated UI of kolektiva.social. Hmmm.
Tonight whilst doing this latest round of testing & head-scratching, i did at least finally ascertain, afaict, exactly why those particular account-Follows aren't working well here. At least one of them is from the domain @bird.makeup, which only tonight i realised, per https://infosec.exchange/about - Moderated servers, is listed! Ah.
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So then i checked each of the troublesome Follows, & voila, they're all on that domain. Gaaaah. 🤦♀️Weirdly though, two other Follows, also on that domain, seem to be working ok here, so that's another huh? 🤷♀️
I'd be sad to lose all four, but the one i most wish to have still, if i had to pick, is the Crikey one. Doing a search in infosec.exchange yielded a possible alternative, which uses a different domain, not included in the Moderated servers list; @crikey_news. So now it's another little waiting game; dunno how long it'll take for my Follow request to be approved [or not], & then... does it actually feed the Crikey posts into my Home timeline with the same alacrity as now in kolektiva.social? If yes, then i'll make infosec.exchange my new daily Instance. If no... then... 🤯
South Africa raises concerns as Botswana extends ban on fresh produce imports (www.citizen.co.za)
Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Thoko Didiza has raised concerns over Botswana’s extension on import restrictions....