Ask Europe’s Pesticides Commissioner to stand up to chemical giants and strengthen the current ban on bee-harming pesticides. Chemical company Bayer just lost a court case in which it sued Friends of the Earth Germany over its claims that a pesticide called thiacloprid harms bees.
And in a separate case Bayer and pesticide firm Syngenta are using the courts to try and overturn Europe’s current ban on three different neonicotinoid pesticides. Each were found to pose a “high acute risk” to honey bees. Thiacloprid is not one of the banned pesticides and is still being sold across Europe.
If we ask the Pesticides Commissioner to defend bees he’ll know that there’s wide support to strengthen the existing ban and take thiacloprid off our shelves too.
Please email Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis to say that you support a stronger ban on neonicotinoid pesticides and ask him to to stand up to Bayer.
