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Bee Kind The Good Fight for Honeybees


A U.S. federal appeals court has blocked the use of the pesticide sulfoxafl or over concerns about its effect on honeybees, which have been disappearing throughout the country in recent years. “Initial studies showed sulfoxafl or was highly


toxic to honeybees, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was required to get further tests,” says Circuit Judge Mary Schroeder. “Given the precariousness of bee populations, leaving the EPA’s registration of sulfoxafl or in place risks more potential environmental harm than vacating it.” The product, sold in the U.S. as Transform or Closer, must be pulled from store shelves by October 18. Paul Towers, a spokesperson for the nonprofi t advocacy group Pesticide


Action Network, comments, “This is [an example of] the classic pesticide industry shell game. As more science underscores the harms of a pesticide, they shift to newer, less-studied products, and it takes regulators years to catch up.”


On another front, an insect form of Alzheimer’s disease caused


by aluminum contamination from pesticides is another suspected contributing cause of the well-documented widespread bee colony collapse, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Honeybees studied had levels of aluminum in their bodies equivalent to those that could cause brain damage in humans.


GMO-Free Germany Five Dozen Countries Now Ban or Label GMO Crops


New rules implemented by the European Union now allow individual member states to block farmers from using genetically modifi ed organisms (GMO), even if the variety has been approved on an EU-wide basis. Scotland was the fi rst to opt out and Germany is next, according to German Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt. Controversy concerning the safety and/or necessity of GMOs persists, but countries like these have decided not to idly sit by while the effects posed by long-term consumption of GMO foods are revealed. This move makes Germany one of between 64 and 74 countries that have instituted some type of ban or mandatory labeling requirements.


Source: CollectivelyConscious.net


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