Bee-harming pesticides escape proposed European ban

[xchrom]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/15/bee-harming-pesticides-escape-european-ban

A European attempt to ban the world's most widely used insecticides that have been linked to serious harm in bees has failed.

The European commission proposed a two-year suspension of neonicotinoids after the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) deemed their use an unacceptable risk, but major nations including UK and Germany failed to back the plan in a vote on Friday.

The result leaves environmental campaigners, scientists and some politicians bitterly disappointed.

"Britain and Germany have caved in to the industry lobby and refused to ban bee-killing pesticides," said Iain Keith, at campaign group Avaaz. "Today's vote flies in the face of science and public opinion and maintains the disastrous chemical armageddon on bees, which are critical for the future of our food."

[glinda]

1. Somehow I think we need to start saying "are the Lobby" and "not caved into". We now

witness those who want to kill, pollute and destroy actually in those positions. They work for them. Not us. We need to fire them everywhere across the Planet. I no longer give hardly any of them the benefit of the doubt that they would even once do the right thing. That is too kind and not reality.