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Leaked document: Obama knowingly approved bee-killing pesticide

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Monday, February 21, 2011 10:04 AM

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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.

By now, most people know that honeybees are dying off at an incredibly disturbing rate. Colony collapse disorder (CCD), a condition where bees stray from the hive and never find their way back, is nixing millions of nature's pollinators every year. Previous studies have pinpointed various environmental toxins as the primary culprits, including toxic pesticides like clothianidin

And the leaked document, which was written by the EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, explains clearly that "[c]lothianidin's major risk concern is to nontarget insects (honey bees)" and that "[a]cute toxicity studies to honey bees show that clothianidin is highly toxic on both a contact and an oral basis." The letter was in response to a request from Bayer to have clothianidin approval expanded for use on cotton and mustard in addition to its other approved uses.

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/01/leaked-document-epa-knowingly-appr
oved.html

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Monday, February 21, 2011 10:14 AM

BYTEMITE

Actually, Colony Collapse Disorder was first observed in 2006. There are probably a number of factors that contribute to it, but yes, the question of pesticide use is a leading explanation.

That the EPA has it's pockets lined on a number of chemicals is to be expected, at the administration level they're a political entity, and their scientists have sometimes been ignored or silenced.

Bees do in fact pollinate both cotton and mustard plants.

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Monday, February 21, 2011 12:48 PM

CANTTAKESKY

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
... the question of pesticide use is a leading explanation.

It makes sense, doesn't it? Poisons for small critters introduced. Unprecedented numbers of small critters die.

Makes me sick.

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