However, this moral posturing collapses when the same continent looks towards Africa, exposing a stark pattern of double standards and what can only be described as environmental racism. For decades, Africa has functioned as the West’s convenient repository for substances and practices no longer tolerated at home. It should therefore surprise no one that pesticides classified as far too hazardous for European soil, water, and citizens continue to arrive on African farms and enter African food markets. Nevertheless, major producers based predominantly in Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands persist in sending them to more than 25 African countries, among them South Africa, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Sudan, Morocco, and Tunisia. Africa continues to absorb Europe’s discarded chemical burden, a practice that perpetuates a colonial logic in which certain lives merit lesser protection.