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Letter to Theresa May MP on DEFRA granting Syngenta an exception to the EU necotinid ban
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Dear Theresa May, | |
I am writing to ask you to please contact your colleagues at DEFRA and | |
press them not to allow Syngenta an exception to the ban on neocotinid | |
pesticides. Please see: | |
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/512/323/304/ | |
for more information. | |
Neocotinids have been credibly implicated in the mass dying-off of bee | |
populations. The more apocalyptic predictions of the impact of bee | |
death is irreparable damage to our ecosystem as unpollinated plants, | |
and the chain of animals dependent on them as food sources, die off. | |
Although it's possible to hand-pollinate plants (as seems to be | |
happening in China due to dramatically smaller bee populations) this is | |
not an answer, even at scale. Growers will only pay to pollinate | |
commercial crops and it seems infeasible to hand pollinate *all* | |
plants. As plant species die off everything depending upon them will | |
die. | |
Who knows where it will lead? | |
I do not understand why we are even considering allowing Syngenta to | |
play Russian roulette with our food ecosystem to make a buck on their | |
pesticides. They have no right. | |
We should be focusing on doing what we can to preserve bee populations | |
and hope we can do something to reverse the die off. | |
Yours sincerely, | |
Matthew Mower |
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