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Europe’s bees are dying because bee-harming
pesticides keep getting approved by the
EU.
Sign the urgent petition telling EU governments to
stop ignoring the deadly effects of pesticides on bees
when they vote on 8th October.
Sign
the
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We have a huge opportunity to save bees from killer
pesticides. Right now European governments and the EU are
rethinking how dangerous pesticides get approved. Together, we could
persuade them to support much higher standards, that outlaw
bee-harming pesticides.
The crux? Bayer and Dow’s lobbyists are doing all they
can to keep their harmful chemicals on Europe’s fields.
Sign
the urgent petition now, telling EU governments to make pesticide
testing bee-friendly.
We all rely on bees to pollinate fruit, vegetables and crops. But
across the world industrial pesticides, climate change and
urbanisation are pushing bees to the brink --
and unless our governments and the EU take concrete
steps to save the bees, this trend shows no sign of
reversing.
The current method for testing pesticides is
inadequate. It ignores many ways that bees can be harmed.
But unless the committee feels under pressure, it could kick this
into the long grass. That's why SumOfUs members like
you are jumping into action, to tell the EU to consider the
following effects of pesticides on bees:
- The long term effects of pesticides on bees and their colonies
- The effects of exposure to low concentrations of pesticides
- The cumulative effects of exposure to multiple pesticides
- And to only approve pesticides as a last resort, when all
non-chemicals options have failed
Help urge Europe's governments to defy Bayer and Dow’s
pesticide industry lobbyists, who are hell-bent on putting their
profits over bee health, by signing the SumOfUs
petition.
Can
you sign the petition calling on European Governments to improve the
way the EU tests all new pesticides? 
Sign
the Petition
Thanks for all that you do,
Fatah, Rebecca and the team at
SumOfUs
More information:
EFSA
Guidance Document on the risk assessment of plant protection
products on bees, European Food Safety Authority, July
2014
EU
Agrees Total Ban on Bee Harming Pesticides, The Guardian, 27
April 2018
Member
states ‘put #Bees at risk by failure to adopt guidance designed to
protect them from pesticides’, EU Reporter, 7 November
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