Three years ago, the European Union seemed to be getting serious about pesticides. Some 40% of the bloc's citizens had expressed concern about finding them in their food and over a million people were calling for a phaseout. As a sign of the times, the European Parliament was set to vote on a binding proposal to halve pesticide use by 2030 — taking the 2015-2017 average as a baseline. "Without these changes, we risk pollinator and ecosystem collapse which will have even greater impacts on food