Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Does the state do anything right?

From Natural News:

A Colorado beekeeper recently obtained a leaked document revealing that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knows a popular crop pesticide is killing off honey bees, but has allowed its continued approval anyway. Despite opposition from its own scientists, EPA officials first gave the a-okay to Bayer CropScience's toxic pesticide clothianidin in 1993 based on the company's own flawed safety studies. But now it has been revealed that the EPA knew all along about the dangers of clothianidin and decided to just ignore them.

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3 comments:

Quiet_Man said...

And so the mystery of the honey bee die off is unearthed. As ever, the state knew and did nothing.

Trooper Thompson said...

That could indeed be the case.

Anonymous said...

Tip of the iceberg
-Vivid