Alert: Save Our Honeybees… Save Our Food!
Honeybees, originally uploaded by BugMan50.
From the Sierra Club:
Without the honeybees that pollinate one-third of U.S. crops, those of us who enjoy eating would be in a lot of trouble. Unfortunately, “colony collapse disorder” has decimated honeybee populations, and no one knows for sure what’s causing it. One possible factor, as documented in the film Nicotine Bees, is nicotinyl insecticides (also known as neonicotinoids). Now, huge agribusiness corporations have acquired patents to coat their proprietary seeds with these neonicotinoids, which are extremely persistent and end up in pollen and in droplets of water on leaves.
The Sierra Club Genetic Engineering Action Team (one of the many teams in our new Activist Network) has asked the EPA to suspend use of nicotinyl insecticides until it can obtain scientific evidence that their effects are not causing harm to America’s honeybees. So far, the EPA has declined to act. You can help by sending a message to Congress.