Parliament is faced with an imminent decision to make on this matter.
How can it be a sane decision to lift the ban on some pesticides, which we know can affect the bees adversely. I happen to be a bee keeper and have seen what can happen to my bees when there has been local spraying. Are we to go on mis-treating the natural world around us in order to fill the pockets of the commercial firms which produce these poisons. It isn't just the bees that are affected; there are many more species of insect life which are doomed by the practice of using pesticides- and they are not pests! Scientific research has achieved so much for us in a positive way; let this continue, but not in a way that makes the natural world poorer so the few can become richer.
Dick
Hailwood
Hereford
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