Three bee-harming pesticides are to be banned forever – again, after the government announced that their approval for emergency use is to be revoked.
It seems from now on the Labour Party intends only to harm the WASPI women (I apologise; I couldn’t resist).
As the BBC reports,
Neonicotinoids were banned in 2018 but sugar beet farmers have been given special permission to use them every year for the past four years to fight virus yellows, a disease spread by aphids.
The government announced on Saturday that it would be looking at “legislative options” that would legally prevent all future use of three specific neonicotinoids.
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The ban would cover neonicotinoid products containing clothianidin, imidacloprid or thiamethoxam.
It will still have to consider an application for emergency use in 2025 by the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and British Sugar, under existing laws. Those organisations have said work on alternatives is “progressing well” but the NFU said banning products outright could set a “worrying precedent”.
But wildlife organisations have welcomed the announcement – and so does This Site.
The Tories should never have approved a pesticide that harms bees – which are pollinators – because such a move threatens the future of all plants; all crops.
It was a decision that is typical of Tory short-termism; they thought only of businesses’ immediate profits and not of the long-term needs of the nation (or, indeed, the world).
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Bee-harming pesticides are to be banned forever – again
Three bee-harming pesticides are to be banned forever – again, after the government announced that their approval for emergency use is to be revoked.
It seems from now on the Labour Party intends only to harm the WASPI women (I apologise; I couldn’t resist).
As the BBC reports,
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It will still have to consider an application for emergency use in 2025 by the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and British Sugar, under existing laws. Those organisations have said work on alternatives is “progressing well” but the NFU said banning products outright could set a “worrying precedent”.
But wildlife organisations have welcomed the announcement – and so does This Site.
The Tories should never have approved a pesticide that harms bees – which are pollinators – because such a move threatens the future of all plants; all crops.
It was a decision that is typical of Tory short-termism; they thought only of businesses’ immediate profits and not of the long-term needs of the nation (or, indeed, the world).
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