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EU To 'Completely Ban' Outdoor Use Of Pesticides Blamed For Devastating Bees
| Reacting to Friday's decision, Bayer CropScience, the biggest seller of neonicotinoids, called it "a sad day for farmers and a bad deal for Europe." Bayer added that the new rules "will not improve the lot of bees or other pollinators."
Bayer and another pesticide company have already challenged the EU's existing restrictions on neonicotinoids that were enacted in 2013. A verdict in that case is due next month.
| Neonicotinoids work by becoming integrated throughout a plant's structure — instead of just coating the surface of leaves, for instance, the poison is sent to flowers, pollen and nectar. When insects encounter the material, their nervous systems come under a devastating attack.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/27/606355288/eu-to-completely-ban-outdoor-use-of-pesticides-blamed-for-devastating-bees
| Good, no bees= no honey, and fuck that world.
| good news
| Good. No bees = no flowers and stuff. Fuck Bayer and friends!
| >>262006 this is actually false. Bees aren't the only pollinators and they often outcompete and kill off native pollinators.
| Bee me
Be seinfield
| Nice
| Good news.
And Bayer and the likes of it, fuck you.
| No bees = no food
| Finally! EU did something that isn't just a waste of time!
| >>263500 EU has done many nice things, from safety regulations in food industry to infrastructure projects and laws regarding corporate fraud etc
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| Citing concerns for food production, the environment and biodiversity, the European Union is set to "completely ban" the outdoor use of neonicotinoid insecticides that have been blamed for killing bees, and for keeping other bees from laying eggs.
"All outdoor use of the three substances will be banned and the neonicotinoids in question will only be allowed in permanent greenhouses where no contact with bees is expected," the EU announced on Friday.