Community | December 18, 2010 | 18 comments

Wikileaks reveals to world that EPA allowed the killing of honey bees

source: http://www.thegovernmentrag.com/usnews.html?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d07e3472a66a870%2C0

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The world honey bee population has plunged in recent years, worrying beekeepers and farmers who know how critical bee pollination is for many crops. A number of theories have popped up as to why the North American honey bee population has declined–electromagnetic radiation, malnutrition, and climate change have all been pinpointed. Now a leaked EPA document reveals that the agency allowed the widespread use of a bee-toxic pesticide, despite warnings from EPA scientists.
The document, which was leaked to a Colorado beekeeper, shows that the EPA has ignored warnings about the use of clothianidin, a pesticide produced by Bayer that mainly is used to pre-treat corn seeds. The pesticide scooped up $262 million in sales in 2009 by farmers, who also use the substance on canola, soy, sugar beets, sunflowers, and wheat, according to Grist.
The leaked document (PDF) was put out in response to Bayer’s request to approve use of the pesticide on cotton and mustard. The document invalidates a prior Bayer study that justified the registration of clothianidin on the basis of its safety to honeybees:
Clothianidin’s major risk concern is to nontarget insects (that is, honey bees). Clothianidin is a neonicotinoid insecticide that is both persistent and systemic. Acute toxicity studies to honey bees show that clothianidin is highly toxic on both a contact and an oral basis. Although EFED does not conduct RQ based risk assessments on non-target insects, information from standard tests and field studies, as well as incident reports involving other neonicotinoids insecticides (e.g., imidacloprid) suggest the potential for long-term toxic risk to honey bees and other beneficial insects.

The entire 101-page memo is damning (and worth a read). But the opinion of EPA scientists apparently isn’t enough for the agency, which is allowing clothianidin to keep its registration.
Suspicions about clothianidin aren’t new; the EPA’s Environmental Fate and Effects Division (EFAD) first expressed concern when the pesticide was introduced, in 2003, about the “possibility of toxic exposure to nontarget pollinators [e.g., honeybees] through the translocation of clothianidin residues that result from seed treatment.” Clothianidin was still allowed on the market while Bayer worked on a botched toxicity study [PDF], in which test and control fields were planted as close as 968 feet apart.
Clothianidin has already been banned by Germany, France, Italy, and Slovenia for its toxic effects. So why won’t the EPA follow? The answer probably has something to do with the American affinity for corn products. But without honey bees, our entire food supply is in trouble.
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  • gerardange
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      gerardange  
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    • Okay now what?

      So now we all go back to sleep? Back to business as usual & doing nothing?

      Doing nothing is stupid!

      Doing something is courageous...

      WIKILEAKS IS A WAKE-UP CALL !!!

      Wikileaks is a global "Virus Protection Software" that has shown all of us that our systems are infected.... That there is a trojan virus running in the background - doing things against the interests of the People of the Country that the government is mandated to represent.

      This is a real wake-up call for people everywhere.... that Corporations have taken over all our government systems... Stealing all our freedoms and making us slaves of their corporate system.

      LEARN FROM HISTORY.....

      Mussolini quote: " Fascism should be appropriately called Corporatism because of a merger of State & Corporate Power."

      That is what is going on here...

      This is a wake-up call for everyone.. and

      Wikileaks is the Alarm Bell !!!

      Truth is courageous...

      ~

    • 1 year ago
  • ras_menelik
  • echelgreen
  • Dagum
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      Dagum  

    • The Bee's are another victim of the Theory of Regulatory Capture

      From the S.E.C. to the USDA,

      All regulatory agencies end up getting captured by the corporations they are supposed to regulate.

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
  • a619ko
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      a619ko  

    • Sad, Honeybees are so good for the enviorment :(, it is very sad we people are letting the bees become extinct.

    • 1 year ago
  • projectmayhem
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • Dagum
  • KSirys
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      KSirys  

    • So much for having someone watch out for us... lol.. how sad!! This country won't last for long and yet, no one seems to care and break the hole we are falling in...

      Good job epa!!

    • 1 year ago
  • Sarah_Honea
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      Sarah_Honea  

    • I will paraphrase my Native American brethren here:

      When the last tree is felled, when the last stream is poisoned, when the last fruit is picked is when the white man will understand that you cannot eat money...

    • 1 year ago
  • Daena_Smith
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      Daena_Smith  

    • I hear the interview but can't see where it's coming from. Is there a link to Naomi's Interview? And it figures that there was something behind the bee's...and not global warming..lol----Never mind..found it!

    • 1 year ago
  • dudefromtherock
  • rhetoricallyineffective
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  

    • Naomi Wolf, author of seven books, including NYTimes bestsellers, The Beauty Myth, The End of America, and Give Me Liberty, appeared on the LewRockwell show deeply worried about the state of America fearing both the TSA actions and the threatened use of the 1917 Espionage Act against journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. "This signals a rapid escalation on multiple fronts toward the end of liberty for all of us. Historically, the state always uses the excuse of national security as a tactic to subjugate citizens, forcing nakedness and sexual intrusions upon us, unless and until, courageous acts of resistance and mass opposition finally force these totalitarians, like the TSA, to back down. But we must act if we are to have a chance."
      In an article on the Huffington Post this past week, "Senators Joe Lieberman and Dianne Feinstein engaged in acts of serious aggression against their own constituents, and the American people in general. They both invoked the 1917 Espionage Act and urged its use in going after Julian Assange. Lieberman also extended his invocation of the Espionage Act to include a call to use it to investigate the New York Times, which published WikiLeaks' diplomatic cables. Reports suggest that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder may seek to invoke the Espionage Act against Assange."
      The government is threatening to engage in this hostile, radical, and agressive behavior against the American people to shut down the exposure of corruption leaking across the world. They are using Wikileaks as their excuse to imprison Americans or anyone that engages in exposing the truth to the People. The radical U.S Corporation government has had a long history of using illegal and unconstitutional laws to bring terror to the American people when journalists expose corruption or truth about the globalist's true agenda. In the name of safety and security, Americans are being imprisoned, tortured, and striped of their rights on a daily basis. If Americans do not speak out against the Espionage Act, there will be death to all the journalist gatekeepers and citizens.

      Listen to the interview Naomi Wolf on LewRockwell:

    • 1 year ago
  • Nephwrack
  • treewolf39
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