Scientists across the globe have searched for years to find out what is killing off the bees on which humanity as well as animal and plant life depend for survival. Bees pollinate most of what ends up in our diet, and their mass deaths have made food more scarce and hence driven up food prices. Many scientists feel that microwave radiation, which now emanates all over the world from the telecommunications industry, is the main culprit. Many other scientists feel the main killer is Bayer, the pharmaceutical giant that manufactures neonicotonoids – which are pesticides decimating life as we know it.Bayer has spent millions on Junk Science trying to prove its neonicotonoid pesticide is not responsible; but an abundance of evidence makes it clear that the German giant needs to do the responsible thing for our long-term survival, not continue to poison our food pollinators for short-term company profits. Please take action by reading and following the relevant links from Roots Action printed here:
Roots Action says:
Take a second to save bees, crops, and anyone who eats food.
Bayer, the global chemical company, is manufacturing a chemical that new evidence shows is killing off bees.
Click here to tell Bayer to take this product off the market.
30% of our crops — and 90% of wild plants — rely on bees to thrive.
Bayer has paid for biased research that “proves” its chemical isn’t a problem. But now independent scientists in Europe have discovered that Bayer’s chemical is a high risk to bees.
Bayer makes everything from Alka-Seltzer to Berocca to flea treatments for pets. Bayer knows that it needs to keep its customers happy. If it realizes that its customers are outraged, it will have to pull its bee-poisoning pesticide off the market.
Join RootsAction and SumOfUs in signing this petition to Bayer now.
The dangerous chemical Bayer makes is a neonicotinoid. Neonicotonoids are soaked into seeds, spreading through the plant and killing insects stopping for a snack. These pesticides can easily be replaced by different chemicals that don’t soak so deeply into our crops. But companies like Bayer make a fortune from selling neonicotinoids – so they’ll do everything they can to protect their profit.
It’s not just bees that are hurt by these chemicals. Research on rats found that neonicotinoids may also hurt human health, especially the developing brain. But as with the bees, we don’t know as much as we should about the health hazards, because companies like Bayer spend millions on research which muddies the water with biased studies. For Bayer, people’s health plays a distant second to their huge profits.
Bayer will feel the pinch if you join RootsAction and SumOfUs in demanding an end to its bee killing by clicking here.
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Background:
Wired: Controversial Pesticide Linked to Bee Collapse
by Matthews & Associates
