Death of the Bees: Worldwide Impacts of Toxic Pesticides. Disrupted Pollination, Impacts on Plants, Fields and Food
Humankind has a choice to make, a stark and very clear choice:
toxic pesticides which kill the bees, or the bees themselves which
pollinate our plants, bring life to our fields and food on our tables.
No bees, no plants, no food. The bees disappear, we follow. However,
certain powerful lobbies, and governments, could not care less.
Neonicotinoids are powerful pesticides which
have been linked to the collapse of the honey bee, an important insect
responsible for the pollination of our plants across the globe. A
series of studies have linked neonicotinoids to honey-bee colony
collapse disorder (CCD) due to the neuro-active chemical actions which
also have an adverse effect on species of birds which feed on the
insects these pesticides combat.
Millions of dead bees
Introduced in the 1990s, by the end of the decade, neonicotinoidswere being blamed for the loss of large numbers of honey bees and birds,
so much so that the European Union and several other countries banned
the use of certain neonicotinoids in 2013. Certain but not all. Seven
remain in use: Imidacloprid (Bayer CropScience), Thiamethoxam
(Syngenta), Clothianidin (Sumitomo
Chemical/Bayer CropScience), Acetamiprid (Nippon Soda), Thiacloprid
(Bayer CropScience), Dinotefuran (Mitsui Chemicals), Nitenpyram
(Sumitomo Chemical)
