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Many European countries have banned the use of neonicotinoids, but in the U.S. the EPA has ignored the evidence and has turned a blind eye to the science. As a
by yawz 7y ago
Many European countries have banned the use of neonicotinoids, but in the U.S. the EPA has ignored the evidence and has turned a blind eye to the science. As a result the environmental damages in the United States continue to grow each year.
Here's an interesting study:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0220029 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
- AtomicNixon 7y agoActually, here's the real story behind how the ban came about. The guidelines were manipulated so that all the realistic field studies had to be discounted. The lab studies basically amounted to "We fed insecticide to bees and it killed them." https://risk-monger.com/issues/agriculture/beegate/ https://risk-monger.com/issues/agriculture/beegate/ As for that Plos One study, take a look at who the authors are and where they work. They're all members of the pesticides action network and the last author on the paper is also a staff scientist for Friends of the Earth, another environmental NGO. Unsurprisingly, she had an article all lined up with The Guardian on the day the paper was released. The paper itself is nothing but a cludge of unrealistic assumptions and bad math. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/07/americas-dependence-on-pesticides-especially-neonics-is-a-war-on-nature https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/07/americ...