Of certain insecticides something bad was keen to hush up they wanted to keep it secret they didnt want to publicize something which would be damaging for the company of it being good for the buying was to stop the debate so they could carry on making money with. These insecticides known as mere nigga to know and have earned billions for the company a case of placing earnings over ethics a certain it by not known what isnt normal is breaking the last concealing facts your guess should you shores and. How influential is the being a group and to the authorities fail to exercise proper oversight. But i scull in southwest germany as a 1st. Region and hand to plenty of canola and corn fields cost of carr who runs a beef on here. Hes passionate about what he does his babies are like part of a family. It really experienced any problems with pesticides until one spring day 12 years ago. And you passed had appeared in the rhine valley and was threatening to devastate the corn fields to save the harvest the authorities allowed the large scale use of near nicotine or its only annex as theyre also known. For me out there i could see the farmer sowing his corn and from one moment to the next stop flying it was perfect weather the bees were out origin everything was wonderful but as the farmer sowed his seed everything stopped although these in the air disappeared. The insecticide the seed had been treated with resulted in a toxic dust cloud that killed 12000 b. Colonies in the region more than 500000000 being suffered an agonizing death. Throughout the best light worst of being a fork it was the world our worst case of be poisoning by legal means since be conservation began it was very frustrating and very emotional and it really got me down. Well thought out so it got so bad that i couldnt drive over to the beehives anymore every time i got near i was met by the stench of decomposing bees i just couldnt handle it anymore like stick a can. During planting some of the red pesticide coaching the corn seeds rubbed off and was released into the environment. Dust will do whats that that was sown in the mice yes or corn seeds dress with insect decided to hunted with the mice and was told what happened i think this is to hold to you see this red dust thats insecticide residue that is rubbed off the seeds and that was released into the air during plantation in the orbit doesnt stop in the bees died instantly. So but im tired of it if you look thin of the that those that passed through the dust cloud yes. But the worst of it was that the dust settled on flowering plants so the remaining bee is then gathered contaminated pollen i mean you know the pull of the summer at home. Rather than being sprayed on to crops like traditional pesticides and an example of an applied in the form of a c. Dressing the seed coated with insecticide is then drilled into the ground using a seed planter the toxins are affected from the root to the entire plant as a grows making it i mean to pests both in the ground and the field. Stays about virgin birth investigated what had gone wrong and what i scar to the p. G. Theres a nice mint claim was placed on the mechanical seed plant is. The Agriculture Ministry echoed bears official line saying that had the seeds been sown correctly everything would have been fine and the unix would nevertheless banned for use on call in germany theyre still committed for other crops they offered 2200000 euros in fast track 8 but only on one condition for the beekeepers. In return i shall seed all existing and future claims to compensation to the state of body view to. The investigation the government of button button back had suddenly become a mediation of the offer from bay i was actually made by the Agriculture Department has learned by the river bank or no barrier it was a state of badens it better they wanted to buy their way out of. It was touted as an emergency aid for the beekeepers because of what they were just covering themselves so there was a real push to settle the matter quickly where they knew the bees had been poisoned otherwise it would have taken a lot longer to get the money to fish that many of the beekeepers accepted the compensation and bear was left alone the ban on the negative noise and. One wasnt a problem as they were still approved for many other crocs between 19022017 around 3700 tons of the agent was sold in germany alone. And other manufacturers like syngenta supplied various neo negative though its to more than 100. 00 countries and billions of euros scientists accuse the producers of making money at the expense of the environment. Because studies show that me a negative noise actually impact in time ecosystems. Dutch toxicologist hang telecast has spent years studying the substances sold by Companies Like jr. He believes they are negative no into the most toxic insecticide ever produced we made 10 against every clinic in the netherlands even though he was undergoing treatment for pneumonia when we saw him made last year he agreed to speak to us. You name your theory seems russell nearly get annoyed are water soluble and relatively mobile in the ground theres a very strong are so when it rains they are easily washed into the ground water and runoff water. Zomi from. This means they affect the whole environment and are also absorbed by wild flowers and plants via their roots. When does future tutors are in the entire landscape becomes toxic for insects. Theres a group of them so its fair to assume that this will result in mass insect deaths were brilliant and if the insects disappear the ecosystem collapses. Thats why this is an ecological armageddon we are destroying the whole of nature. Cantenna has believed that near next to the main cause of insect deaths around the world and that via the food chain theyre also responsible for the decline in the population of birds reptiles and amphibians and theres evidence that the harmful to humans too. So why are these insecticide still being sold. In 2018 the European Union did at least ban 3 of the 5 near naked to no its because of the threat to beings but france had already banned one products containing the toxins back in 1999 it took 19 years for the e. U. To catch up so why did the french authorities act so much earlier. And paris we need scientists sure mark baum a ton and a beekeeper only trouble. They have instigated the 999 ban at the time being very experiencing mysterious dialysis from a time prove that any are negative no its produced by there was a flame. When the results were made public and the beekeepers protested the company was swift to respond. By yelling the very quickly they are started to exert pressure to get us to keep quiet in our example what they didnt want to be keepers causing problems in the book you more tentative a mayor sued me for libel. I dont produce honey from sunflowers and i was acting in my capacity as head of the National Union of people this is what they sold me as a private individual and again your lawyer defended us and we wonder and bayer chose not to appeal the ruling but i wasnt the only 10. The scientists also came under pressure the aim was to stop the debate so they can carry on making money when you know he doesnt do it but the french government was also well known by the mass speed deaths and had commissioned a study. Before we even started our Research Bear began using the Agriculture Ministry to try to impose its methods and threshold values on us so that wasnt a good start if you looked at then when we got our results they came into the lab to check my analysis and find any errors they were desperate to find a mistake people told me but i havent made it to the end because we had proven that it talks about poetry even the blossoms of the plant they were forced to accept our results when i later on i mentioned the pressure exerted by bayer to the french media that i dont receive 2 letters from a beer lawyer one addressed to me personally and one to the head of my institute you know they wanted to use their influence to force me to keep my mouth shut if they expected me a scientist to hide my results in order to protect their sales. But yes it would be best easy but that wasnt his 1st brush with. Works for one of the Top Research Institutions in france it was back in the mid 1990 s. That he was commissioned by the french Agriculture Ministry to investigate the mass be deaths. Suspicion had fallen on me or nigga to know it 1st made by bayer called i met a close pretty. Says that at the request of the regional agricultural thirtys they employees were actively involved in the 1st study. People but i believe its normal for a company like bayer to be informed if one of its products is being investigated as i think you put years old you posted to their feet but what absolutely isnt normal is when representatives of that Company Whose product is being assessed are not all of them determining details of the approach to be taken including the financing and even the publication. The final result is your bucky heap and a headache sure youve done. There was certainly a lot of money at stake to bear the investigation began. These were sent on the one hand to fields of sunflowers treated with me or nicotine or its on the other 2 untreated fields for control purposes at least thats what john berman time and his colleagues were told. They were only supposed to analyze the fields containing the bayer pesticides but later they realized that the control field was also contaminated with insecticides or knew some blood they called youll carry it you know we scientists complained when we realized that the control fields have been treated with fungus eyes and other insecticides have a good 40 hed be good to think he did it just isnt normal for an experiment of this loving not thats all the kitty. You did have a good bit of Management Committee for the study and nordyke complaints by order new it legal to your theres a good b. Could be doped out to get happy instead the results of this comparative study which we now know were worthless were taken as proof that a medical oprah is harmless for bees you could you eat what is a big. Suddenly they as insecticides appeared beyond suspicion any possibility of a ban have been dismissed for now at least. But boman time and his colleagues at the institute then carried out their own study on behalf of the beekeepers this time it was not involved and the results were staggering. Level them all play about history to give it you were able to prove that everything relevant to the b. S. Is a big whether it was the corn the sunflowers the ball any director water who clean but he everything was contaminated i mean yeah he knew and he could you know eat it it did look good and the levels of talks on the open countryside were so high that they were sufficient to either kill the b. S. Or at least cause grave long term problem is hugely too cobber she said. In 1909 france then banned the use of nigga to know its but initially only for some plants that wasnt enough for the beekeepers. They wanted a blanket ban on all me and they get annoyed so i hired the services of a paris lawyer but not for. He took up the case against pay and other manufacturers. Eventually it went to the considered town front his highest court for administrative cases. Full realize that companies have exploited weaknesses and their licensing systems to get their products on the market leagues dogma that european directives refer to whats known as the hazard quotient. This quotient is exceeded the manufacturer is obliged to carry out a field experiment under realistic conditions to prove that the product is not harmful. Due to no treaty does your head that we discovered that this control experiment which was obligatory in order to gain approval never took place. If the tests had been carried out as european regulations dictated these products will never have been authorized and i read it if it did that we its in part thanks to bono falls persistence that france became the 1st country in the world to ban the use of all near nicotine or its in 2018. In germany meanwhile they are continuing to earn well from the insecticides minix were used on many different crops as a panacea for all pests. The discoveries and fronts didnt appear to be well that the German Authorities even though beekeepers here complained of heavy losses but a hate figure was until recently president of the European Beekeepers Association he told us of his organizations relief when germany finally announced a study on a declining big population but the relief was short lived to start we realised that the initiative only began once the threat was perceived of germany having to adopt the same stance as france from quantum there was clearly great concern that the insecticides could be banned here too. Was the industry looking to preempt that move. It would appear that that was the reason why bayh and another next maker syngenta took part in the study other he figures soon realised something was very wrong you dont see our jobs every year there was an annual report and every year the findings would go through the media. The role i might which causes honeybee deaths is really terrible. But we found no crabs with pesticides and it was like a Public Relations coup for them obviously we became increasingly critical of how the whole project was structured with the methods they were using they wouldnt have found any link between. Pesticides on honeybee deaths anyway countries that are not dobby other manics have nothing to do with the mass being deaths that was the apparent finding that defined Public Opinion might up until the disaster in prescott in 2008 the industry have put huff a 1000000 euros into the be monitoring project womens safety for not doing this project when you look at how the project was financed its pretty obvious im the one who pays the piper calls or the too many towing the german be monitoring project was financed almost entirely by the insecticides makers. That Beekeepers Association walked out of the project in protest but by this point questions were also being raised about whether near needed to know in time not just peace but other wildlife to. With come to me an expert tanika gardens where we meet spanish toxicologist Francisco Sanchez bio he conducted a major study on the annex that attracted global interest. So when you publish your be the beginning of this year what was the conclusion that we found that in this in the countries where this has been studied which is mostly european americans but also countries around the world that go see a lot of japan 40 percent of the species of insects are declining and among those one 3rd of them are really declining rapidly and they have threatened with extinction. Eaten says near niggas know its play a key role in that trend and they dont just kill insects they damage entire ecosystems. By a put that in japan where he studied irrigation rice fields over a 2 year period. These ecosystems are home to minute water fleas known as daphnia as well as crayfish and japanese rice fish called dhaka. One day the rice farmers noticed that much of this wildlife was dying apart from the water fleas crayfish were especially hard hit a laboratory achieving university was asked to investigate the research is soon found the culprit the same near negative noise that it killed the beings in france we know melissa of 7 very curiously in the new that are there where in the in the medical some street it was even that loopy where all absolutely all a 100 percent of the fish were contaminated with it but it was on but our site and of course we put it down to the fact that any that look related or i mean only got to know its inhibits the human system so its all species were sensitive to the insecticide except ducks. So there was the news of the so dufner was an anomaly and they are fortunate fact. Is that this anomaly had been used as the reason to say that this is sickness i was say for the moment when he was a complete anomaly. The poison did not kill the tiny watervliet but it is effectively exterminate much larger species that weaken their means system so severely that they were easy prey for parasite. The results were in the speech ago or so such as by a thought but he hadnt reckoned with a form of play a scientist who had actually helped to develop me in x. The day i explained the results or the 1st year measure course of studies to the whole group and to the faculty. At the end he just couldnt understand the resource in cells and hears me so whether you want to do with these results and i said work the 1st thing i want to do is to publish them because he sounds in nobility and he really mean. You know what they say he was speechless and said do you really want to publish it insidious thing is important to lead the world know was happening but they wanted to keep it secret they didnt want to publicize sounds in which will be done a gene for a company. The toxicologist says the laboratory then terminated his contract but he published the result anyway. The events he witnessed indicate that at least one bayer scientists knew right back in 2004 about the kind of devastation that nearly get annoyed can cause an eco systems. From our research its clear that bayer tried for decades to provide any kind of universal ban on e. And ignore it. In front the company sought to intimidate beekeepers and scientists and played a leading role in a questionable study on b. Mortality that exonerated the insecticide. In germany insecticide makers funded of the monitoring project it led to the widespread belief that mia nick it annoyed had nothing to do with mass be deaths. And in japan it would appear bare employees even sought to suppress the publication of a crucial study scientists unproven and the unique it annoyed were responsible for the collapse of entire ecosystems. So what does bear say to all these allegations that Research Results we spent weeks trying to communicate with the company and when denied entry to its premises. Bev representatives refused to talk to us on camera our written questions went unanswered instead the company criticized what it described as unfair treatment by the media and many sent us this general statement. That he remains convinced that the use of near look at a noise is safe for humans and the environment provided they are used responsibly and in accordance with the instructions for use. Nearly. Its annoying to only kill pests were told. By a studys claim that not even long term use is harmful to beasts other insects or fish as for the allegation that bay employees sought to manipulate other studies no comment. We return to dutch toxicologist hank telecasts he spent years studying these pesticides and during that time he discovered 2 studies carried out by they are the findings of which are astounding and one of their scientists describes the effects of the 1st near nigga to noise of the nervous system of a species of fly these are facts of described as irreversible. Amid a cloak produced the 1st highly effective insecticide that works on the principle of almost completely blocking receptors in a way that is virtually irreversible. One of the bayer studies was completed in 1901 so one year before the product was granted even right approval when tenet is confronted by it with these studies and was taken aback by the response. Vets the mayor now claims that the blocking of the receptors in the nervous system is reversible so you still are contradicting themselves. If the effect is reversible it depends on the concentration and so you can define a threshold level or govern. If the market is irreversible you cant define a threshold level and so the effect is cumulative zooms so it is rumored 03 will be virginal bay a study is key because if the toxins remain in the nervous system that can lead today even if the insects were only exposed to a small dose so if they knew that why did the company take no action you knew her cloak in medical open alone generates annual turnover of nearly a 1000000000 euros or stuff its so i think that led them to just claim something so they could keep selling this pesticide work and. If they consider the impact is substance has they would have had to take it off the market mark. We also asked the bear group about these studies carried out by it and scientist and once again the company declined to comment. Theres enough evidence to prove the dangers of the annexe but authorities have either been slow to respond or taken no action at all if we take the European Union for example a look at how pesticides are authorized is highly ready. First the active ingredient is approved for you why is it the manufacturer can apply and any member state france was chosen for the 1st knee or negative. But only the manufacturers test the substance for toxicity and environmental impact. The authorities just do the paperwork. In germany best the federal office of Consumer Protection and food safety along with 3 other agencies none of them test products. So everything depends on studies carried out by the manufacturer as the European Beekeepers Association points out its a system that all too easy to manipulate. Just think on the manufacturers can intervene at all levels dont even get a say in how any prescribed tests are structured for tests did. You see of us done. Up until now its also been the case that the study that a manufacturer commissioned or under took remained a Corporal Cesar for a time as he assured us while. The advantage they couldnt be published on and damn it also steamed me so no one else could tell what the licensing authorities actually checked. We had a dog taught. Us that makes life easy for the authorities because no one can really question their decisions and try to replace roku from as well as 10 its a very very convenient relationship between industry and regulatory authorities would you rather. To this day remains a distinctly sickly system what if independent voters were to carry out tests prior to approval instead of these powerful Chemical Companies wed like to discuss this with the German Agriculture minister yulia kleck not for weeks we tried to get an interview when we finally got an appointment we were told that we couldnt use our camera and that the minister had no time for us instead we received a statement saying that the ministry was committed to continuing to develop the approval and licensing procedures on the basis of the latest developments in science and technology and yet and a directive aimed at tightening the approval regulations for pesticides has been stalled for years but germany among those standing in the way. Critics like french lawyer ben awful says the result of successful not being by manufacturers like they are. Looking for but now youve just said we mustnt be naive object the goal and purpose of these companies is to make money with these products your supporters dont even know them are good and thats what they do with all means at their disposal if thats normal. Social culture not much. All of all. What isnt normal is breaking the law concealing facts playing for time. Do they need or dont in order to prevent products that are harmful from being taken off the market would you be thinking so next year. Even though the evidence is clear continuing to still one of the most widely used insecticides in the world. They are on the one hand has influenced scientific studies and intimidated and seems its critics while on the other lacks licensing rules and off origins have ignored deeply troubling studies have prevented meaningful controls and meaningful changes will Mean Companies being monitored more closely and warnings he did any of. Them. 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