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    Das Vereinigte Königreich könnte trotz des Wahlversprechens, es zu verbieten, ein Pestizid zur Bienentötung genehmigen

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/uk-may-approve-bee-killing-pesticide-despite-election-promise-to-ban-it

    Von masterblaster0

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    1. True-Abalone-3380 on

      I think this happens most years. What the papers don’t often say is that it’s still incredibly controlled, each potential use has to be applied for and there are a lot of rigid stipulations controlling it. Even in years when it has been approved, I don’t think it’s always used.

      The approval isn’t just carte blanche for everyone to go spraying it around.

    3. Top_Opposites on

      I think we established after day one that the election promises were thrown out of the window

    4. New-Doctor9300 on

      And people still wonder why our insect populations all around are lowering.

    5. Careless_Main3 on

      We need a bee-friendly alternative. These pesticides are incredibly important to allow us to grow sugar beet which is the main crop in this country to make sugar.

    6. OpticalData on

      TL;DR:

      >British Sugar and the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) have applied to be allowed to use Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid that contains thiamethoxam, on sugar beet. It combats a plant disease known as virus yellows by killing the aphid that spreads it.

      >A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra): “This government has been clear that we will change existing policies to ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides that threaten bees and other vital pollinators.

      >“Decisions on emergency authorisation applications for use of neonicotinoids on sugar beet for 2025 will be taken in line with legal requirements.”

      >Labour sources claim they legally have to consider the emergency use, but experts suggest they are able to reject it because the rules say they can ban the pesticide based on advice from scientists.

      ‘May approve’ = Legally have to consider it and not planning to go back on election promise

    7. Disastrous-Metal-228 on

      ‘if don’t vote then you have no say’ lol it’s a joke.

    8. jck_am on

      It can only be used on sugar beet which doesn’t flower, therefore doesn’t attract pollinators. This will have negligible if any affect on bee populations.

    10. knotse on

      Setting aside the matter of the pesticide – I am of the mind that nature is a hardy thing, and we would do well to keep nicotine in our arsenal, never mind the neo-nicotinoids (I have had to procure nicotine from Asia to use for insecticidal purposes at home) – ought there not to be a way for manifesto pledges to be enforced? Given that the House of Lords cannot stop them, there is already precedent.

    11. MerakiBridge on

      “The former environment secretary Michael Gove promised in 2017 that ministers would use Brexit to stop the use of the pesticide, which can destroy bee populations.

      Instead, the EU banned all emergency authorisations of neonicotinoid pesticides, while since 2021 the UK government has allowed the emergency use of thiomethoxam every year.”

      You could not make this up.

    12. Gettins1111 on

      Our Labor government in Australia turned out to be a big dud as well.

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