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Save Our Bees

  • 11-01-2011 2:33am
    #1
    cards
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭


    Quietly, globally, billions of bees are dying, threatening our crops and food. But a global ban of one group of pesticides could save bees from extinction.

    Four European countries have begun banning the poisons, and some bee populations are recovering. But chemical companies are lobbying hard to keep all killer pesticides on the market. A global outcry now for a ban in the US and EU, where debate is raging, could provoke a total ban and a ripple effect around the world.

    [MODEDIT] Link to petition removed [/MODEDIT]


Comments

  • #2
    djpbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    OP, if you want to discuss the topic of dwindling bee numbers, then fine. However, please refrain from posting links to petitions and such.


  • #3
    Jim Martin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭Jim Martin


    Excuse my ignorance, but what was the harm in this?


  • #4
    djpbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    Jim Martin wrote: »
    Excuse my ignorance, but what was the harm in this?
    What was the harm in what? As a general rule on boards, links to petitions and surveys are not permitted. If you wish to discuss it further, this thread (which, as stated above, I have left open for discussion of the general topic) is not the place to do it.


  • #5
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/bee-decline-neonicotinoid.html

    Its pretty obvious why bees( and many other useful insects) are vanishing from vast swathes of countryside - but will anything be done about it given the massive lobbying power of these ruthless multinational chemical companies:(


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