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Bayer and Syngenta Lobby Furiously Against EU Efforts to Limit Pesticides and Save Bees
The response of Bayer and Syngenta was to unleash a barrage of letters to the food safety agency and the European Commission, followed later by threatened lawsuits. As CEO reported, the two companies made the following increasingly shrill arguments against the proposed partial ban: that past incidents of pesticide poisoning of honeybees were farmers' fault, not the products'; that member states that had limited use of neonicotinoids were "driven by a small group of activists and hobby beekeepers"; that the pesticide company is an important contributor to global food security and committed to spending money in Africa; that the agency was at risk of coming to "wrong conclusions from a rushed process that could have disastrous implications for agriculture and ironically for bee health"; that "independent" analysis shows that Europe can't survive without neonicotinoids; etc.
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/04/12066/bayer-and-syngenta-lobby-furiously-against-eu-efforts-limit-pesticides-and-save-b
The corporate zombies
"MUST HAVE PROFITS"
