Chemical giant Bayer, has just sued the European Commission to overturn a ban on the pesticides that are killing millions of bees around the world. A huge public push won this landmark ban only months ago and we can’t sit back and let ‘Big Pesticide’ overturn it while the bees vanish.
Just last month, 37 million bees were discovered dead on a single Canadian farm. And unless we act now, the bees will keep dying by the millions. We have to show Bayer now that we won’t tolerate it putting its profits ahead of our planet’s health. If this giant corporation manages to bully Europe into submission, it would spell disaster for the bees.
In December 2010, a leaked memo from the EPA’s Environmental Fate and Effects Division asserted “Clothianidin‘s (Bayer’s neonicotinoid pesticide) major risk concern is to non-target insects (that is, honey bees). Exposure through contaminated pollen and nectar and potential toxic effects therefore remain an uncertainty for pollinators.”
In January 2011, Avaaz.org launched an online petition to ban neonicotinoid pesticides. Bayer is a huge German-based multi-national. Syngenta is a huge Swiss-based agro-chemical multi-national company. Big business must not be allowed to continue to gamble with†our planets earth support systems, so please follow the above link and add your name to the petition.