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  • From: annallys Goodwin-Landher <annallys AT hotmail.com>
  • To: Natural Beekeeping <naturalbeesinnc AT yahoogroups.com>, OCBA <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [ocba] FW: Another bee-harming pesticide? Tell EPA to say NO!
  • Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 16:29:40 -0500


Yet another bee harming pesticide in the EPA pipeline.  Please consider signing the attached petition.


Annallys
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annallys AT hotmail.com

Four years after the bees are gone, humanity is gone.

Albert Einstein




Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:14:19 -0500
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To: annallys AT hotmail.com
Subject: Another bee-harming pesticide? Tell EPA to say NO!

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Keep new bee-toxic pesticide off the market

Protect bees

Bees need protection from known harms, not exposure to new threats.
Urge EPA to keep sulfoxaflor
off the market.


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Dear Annallys ,

While policymakers in Europe are making moves to restrict bee-harming pesticides, EPA is poised to approve widespread use of yet another one

Bees need protection from known harms, not exposure to new threats. Join us in making it clear to EPA that approval of this new systemic pesticide is a very bad idea. We have until February 12 to make some noise!

No more bee-toxic pesticides» The science is clear. While nutrition and disease also contribute to declining bee populations, studies clearly show that systemic pesticides play a key role. Urge EPA to follow the science and keep this new bee-toxic pesticide off the market.

The European Food Safety Association concluded earlier this month that neonicotinoid pesticides ("neonics") pose an unacceptably high risk to bees, and that the industry-sponsored science upon which claims of safety have relied are fatally flawed.  

Meanwhile, here in the U.S., EPA has failed to take swift action to protect bees. And now instead of curbing the use of known bee-toxic neonics like Bayer’s clothianidin, the Agency is set to allow a new systemic pesticide, sulfoxaflor, on the market.

Intended for use on a variety of crops including soy and cotton, sulfoxaflor is a cousin of clothianidin and impacts the same bee brain synapses (nicotinic acetylcholine receptors) as neonics. In short, it poses the same threat to bee health. 

EPA, are you listening?» About a third of bees continue to die off each year, with some beekeepers expecting this year to be the worst yet. It's time to protect these vital pollinators from known harms, not expose them to new threats.

Thank you for helping to ensure that EPA gets this message loud and clear.


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