"These pesticides can easily be replaced by other chemicals which don't have such a devastating effect on the food chain."
These will be the Pyrethroids that farmers have switched to since the ban?
They're not nearly as effective, need much more spray treatments and more hazardous than Neonicotinoid to ground based insect life like ground nesting bees and beetles.
This past year crops have been so badly affected by flea beetles that Defra approved the use of Insyst last September.
Not saying that I want the ban lifted but it's not so easy.
Maybe petitioning for a massive bee breeding program, selecting strains resistant to the chemicals and varroa mites would be a good idea too?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 5 Mar 2015, 12:11,
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WHY DO YOU HATE BEES
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 5 Mar 2015, 12:14,
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No such thing as a free lunch, you can't sustain such a massive human population without damaging wildlife i guess.
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Thu 5 Mar 2015, 12:32,
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Ironically, I've just given my officemate my lunch as I feel unwell.
WHICH PROVES YOU WRONG HIPPIE
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 5 Mar 2015, 12:47,
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Being this gorgeous is a curse,
not a disease.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 5 Mar 2015, 14:08,
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I hope your lunch was free range ethically sourced quinoa or what you just did is a hate crime.
You monster.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 5 Mar 2015, 13:48,
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Christ, I'm sure you're just a close hippie
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Thu 5 Mar 2015, 20:48,
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