"The EU’s behaviour demonstrated a “double standard”, added Ramírez Muñoz: “It prohibits the use of this substance in its territories for health reasons, especially in children, but continues with its production and shipment to other countries where it is used for food production, as if in these countries the lives of infants who are exposed to chlorpyrifos have no value.”"

The blame is put squarely on Europe but do these countries that import have no responsibility for themselves?

> The main destinations were Algeria, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Costa Rica.

These countries are known to have bad regulations and are easy to bribe, which creates a loophole for big corporations to get richer (and let's put aside how they get to the point of having bad regulations). However, remember that many developed countries import ingredients from the named countries, so saying "it's not my problem" can't be applied here.

The actual title of the article is quite dishonest:

> Europe shipping banned pesticide linked to child brain damage to Global South

As if the whole continent packs up these pesticides and sends them southwards.

Later they clarify:

>Almost all of Europe’s 2022 exports of the chemical – sent from Belgium and Denmark by the multinational pesticide companies UPL and FMC

But i guess the proper headline of "US and Indian multinationals export pesticides from Belgium and Denmark" is less sensationalist.

This is just evil.

lol, that's fine ...

They export bombs that kill hundreds (of children and women) per day in Gaza !