The EU’s highest court has ruled that the European Commission was entitled to restrict the use of three neonicotinoid pesticides linked with bee decline after an attempt to overturn the decision from the agrochemical company Bayer.
The plant protection products in question – imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam – belong to a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, which are chemically similar to nicotine and target insects.
They have come under fire in recent years for contributing to the decline of bees by disrupting their sense of orientation, memory and mode of reproduction.
The European Commission moved to impose restrictions on the use of these pesticides on bee-attractive crops back in 2013.
Watchdog groups call out Biden regime for interfering with Mexico’s decision to ban glyphosate, GMO corn
For years, Mexico has been fighting to preserve its native corn varieties from being eliminated by the chemical lobby and replaced with genetically modified (GMO) impostors. Things were going well until the Biden regime started interfering with the process, prompting more than 80 watchdog groups to issue an open letter in opposition to the Biden agenda.
Several dozen agricultural, consumer, environmental, public health and worker groups are trying to get the attention of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who also worked under Barack Obama, along with Trade Secretary Katherine Tai, urging them to stop harassing Mexico.
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80 Groups Blast US Interference in Mexico s Phaseout of Glyphosate and GM Corn
Published: May 3, 2021
By Jessica Corbett, staff writer at Common Dreams.
A coalition of 80 U.S. agricultural, consumer, environmental, public health, and worker groups sent a letter Thursday to key figures in the Biden administration calling for them to “respect Mexico’s sovereignty and refrain from interfering with its right to enact health-protective policies” specifically, the phaseout of the herbicide glyphosate and the cultivation of genetically modified corn.
“Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador quietly rocked the agribusiness world with his New Year’s Eve decree,” Timothy A. Wise of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (ITAP) noted earlier this year. “His administration sent an even stronger aftershock two weeks later, clarifying that the government would also phase out GM corn imports in three years and the ban would include not just corn for human consump
A coalition of 80 US agricultural, consumer, environmental, public health, and worker groups sent a letter Thursday to key figures in the Biden administration calling for them to respect Mexico s sovereignty and refrain from interfering with its right to enact health-protective policies specifically,
the phaseout of the herbicide glyphosate and the cultivation of genetically modified corn. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador quietly rocked the agribusiness world with his New Year s Eve decree, Timothy A. Wise of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (ITAP) noted earlier this year. His administration sent an even stronger aftershock two weeks later, clarifying that the government would also