Britain's Largest Farming Co-Op Bans Eight Pesticides Responsible for Honeybee Colony Collapse
By Mike Adams, January 28, 2009 | Key concepts: Pesticides, Honeybees and Food supply
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As the global collapse of honeybee populations threatens the sustainability of the world food supply, some European organizations are at least trying to do something about it. Today, Britain's largest agriculture co-op announced it would ban eight pesticides thought to be causing colony collapse disorder. (One of them is called imidacloprid.)
In an act of great courage, one of the co-op's chief decision makers, Paul Monaghan, accused the UK government of failing to recognize that pesticides may be causing the collapse of honeybee populations. In fact, the UK government has fought against honeybee protection measures, says Elliott Carnell of Pesticide Action Network Europe, arguing that banning pesticides would reduce crop yields.
You have to wonder what's going through these people's heads, huh? If they're worried about crop yields, then obviously letting all the honeybees die would be devastating to the crops, but both the UK and US governments seem determined to let that happen.
Sadly, short-term thinking dominates the consciousness of the human species. To squeeze an extra 10% yield out of the crops today, these government "exerts" will threaten the survival of the very species of insects we all desperately need to pollinate crops for the next thousand years (and beyond).
From Guardian.co.: Simon Press, senior technical manager at the Co-op group said: "We believe that the recent losses in bee populations need definitive action, and as a result are temporarily prohibiting the eight neonicotinoid pesticides until we have evidence that refutes their involvement in the decline."... more
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