Should artificial pesticides be banned?

AI-generated summary, admin reviewed: This vote was about banning artificial pesticides in Switzerland, affecting agriculture, food production, and gardening. It aimed to prohibit their use and importation, with a ten-year implementation period and possible exceptions for emergencies. The initiative was rejected by voters.
VoteWorld wording adapted from a Swiss federal vote. Seed votes are official Swiss results for the original linked proposal, not votes cast on this adapted wording.
AI model: gpt-4o-mini

Seed source: Swissvotes federal popular vote dataset.
Swissvotes page: https://swissvotes.ch/vote/642.00
Official result data: https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/20210613/can642.html
Vote date: 2021-06-13
Original Swissvotes English title: Initiative «For a Switzerland without artificial pesticides»
Original German title: Pestizidinitiative
Swissvotes short-description title: Initiativen zur Pestizidreduktion scheitern im Doppelpack
Original French title: Initiative sur les pesticides
Official English explanatory information: http://web.archive.org/web/20210612143738/https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/votes/20210613/popula-initiative-for-a-switzerland-without-artificial-pesticides.html
Official German explanatory information: https://web.archive.org/web/20210526010747/https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/abstimmungen/20210613/volksinitiative-fur-eine-schweiz-ohnepsynthetische-pestizide.html
Official French explanatory information: https://web.archive.org/web/20210612002111/https://www.admin.ch/gov/fr/accueil/documentation/votations/20210613/initiative-populaire-pour-une-suisse-libre-de-pesticides-de-synth%C3%A8se.html
Année Politique Suisse description: https://anneepolitique.swiss/prozesse/59937
Federal office information (German): http://web.archive.org/web/20210604044808/https://www.blw.admin.ch/blw/de/home/politik/agrarpolitik/aktuelleabstimmungen/schweizohnepestizide.html
Federal office information (French): http://web.archive.org/web/20210603064811/https://www.blw.admin.ch/blw/fr/home/politik/agrarpolitik/aktuelleabstimmungen/schweizohnepestizide.html
easyvote explainer video (German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYaRJIEpcA
easyvote explainer video (French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqdunmGVp1U
BFS result map (German): https://mapexplorer.bfs.admin.ch/?obs=politic⟨=de#c=indicator&i;=vp20210613.prop_oui_642_0
BFS result map (French): https://mapexplorer.bfs.admin.ch/?obs=politic⟨=fr#c=indicator&i;=vp20210613.prop_oui_642_0
Official chronology (German): https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/vi/vis471.html
Official chronology (French): https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/f/pore/vi/vis471.html