30-90 percent of bee colonies have been dying over the past two years. Europeans are banning the pesticide clothianidin to protect their bee populations from “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD), yet the FDA, which approved the pesticide in 2003, refuses to release public documents of studies conducted by clothianidin’s maker Bayer CropScience on the chemical’s impact on bees and the environment. Last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council filed suit against the FDA in order to release these documents and save the bees.
Via: Organic Consumers Association
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cut off their hands
The overuse of pesticides in modern agriculture is a serious problem which must be addressed, for the sake of the bees and for everything else. The chemical companies have far too much power and abuse this power time after time. We have to stand up to them if we want to make a difference.
I heard about that in NPR a week before. It is really a serious issue. We want this information and we want it now.
Bees are disappearing. Our whole existence depends on them because… flowers need to be pollinated