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In general, Brazil has been quite strict with controlling pesticides because we depend a lot on the rich countries to want to buy our products.

The current government, not so much. The president has appointed a Minister of Agriculture that is known as the "Poison Muse". We shall see how that goes but there's a tendency of conflating liberalism with not having any rules that is getting scary with the current administration (e.g. taxes are the system crushing entrepreneurs, traffic laws are a "fee industry", everybody should have a gun, etc)



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