The return of neonicotinoids gives the bumblebee to the beekeepers of Occitania

Colomiers, April 21, 2013. A beekeeper at work on one of his hives.

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They haven't said their last word.

After demonstrating last week in front of the offices of the deputies of Occitania who voted against or abstained on the temporary reintroduction of neonicotinoids, this Monday the beekeepers of the region and the activists of the voluntary mowers led an action in front of the sites of the three firms which produce this molecule, Bayer-Monsanto, Basf and Syngenta.

An action ahead of the vote of the senators, who must vote on the re-authorization of these pesticides in beet cultivation this Tuesday.

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For these activists, this authorization, even for beet alone, is a Trojan horse for the agrochemical companies targeted, which they symbolized by a statue three meters high during their demonstration.

Studies and misdeeds

“In fact, legally the principle of equality will, if the senators confirm this law this Tuesday, October 27, an angle of attack allowing firms in reality to obtain a general re-authorization of neonicotinoids.

French beekeepers have been denouncing the misdeeds of the hundreds of tons of neonicotinoids used in France for 25 years, when only a few nanograms are enough to kill bees, ”argues the union of beekeepers in Occitania.

The latter argues that 1,222 international scientific studies have demonstrated the reprotoxic effect of neonicotinoids, whether on humans, bees or even fish and butterflies.

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