Dear BeeAlert Subscriber,
For a short time, you can download a video that shows clearly how Bayer fooled the US Environmental Protection Agency into passing the systemic neonicotinoid insecticide Clothianidin as 'safe', despite its own tests showing that it was lethal to honeybees.
Download the video here - http://tinyurl.com/3ep7f8j
Those of you who are members of the British Bee Keepers Association may like to ask them why Tim Lovett and the BBKA continue to promote the interests of a corporation that not only manufactures and distributes insecticides known to kill bees, but that is also prepared to use junk science and lies to get their products to market?
Here is the video I flagged a few weeks ago, from a recent event organized by Bayer to position themselves as 'bee-friendly' - with the help of Tim Lovett and, by association, the BBKA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PfabP6ipm4
The facility to comment on the video was removed on the orders of Dr Julian Little, chair of the Agricultural Biotechnology Council and Communications & Government Affairs Manager for Bayer CropScience Limited.
It's not as if Bayer is new to lies and deceit as a promo tool. Here's how they deliberately gave AIDS-contaminated drugs to haemophiliac children, for example - http://tinyurl.com/yqamee
Are Bayer really the sort of corporation the BBKA should even be talking to, never mind associating themselves with?
More on Bayer killing bees here - http://www.bayer-kills-bees.com
Isn't it time for the BBKA to call a halt to all connections with the pesticide peddlers and to come out strongly in favour of organic agriculture and pesticide-free gardening?
Phil Chandler
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