Juxtapose time!
Bjorn Lomberg, Dec.2014 – “Shameful. Scientists decided beforehand that they wanted to blame neonicotinoid pesticides on bee deaths and then made the research to fit.”
Saskatchewan Ag Minister Lyle Stewart, Jan.2015 – “Saskatchewan does not currently plan to follow Ontario in implementing restrictions on neonicotinoid pesticides. The government respects Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency’s (PMRA) scientific system to evaluate, register and monitor pest control products and sees PMRA’s continuing evaluation of neonicotinoid insecticides as important. Decisions must be based on sound science.”
Keep the pressure on your MLA’s and MP’s not to surrender Canadian agriculture to these corrupt activists.
Sounds like “secondhand smoke”…..
So just to get this straight; you believe the government scientists when it suits your beliefs, but reject government scientists when it is in conflict with your beliefs on say global warming?
Perhaps you should take some classes in logic. I am personally familiar with two different PMRA rulings which had terrible consequences for individuals. In the first a hot tub vendor was selling colloidal silver generators to the public to kill the nasty’s in hot tubs without chlorine or other chemicals. Their scientific rationale was that this was the exact system being used on potable water systems on the International Space Station and US Space Shuttle. They were threatened with criminal prosecution unless they stopped.
In the second, a person was bagging barley straw in plastic mesh bags and selling it as a non-chemical way of keeping pond scum out of ornamental ponds (apparently a time-honored, effective method)and was also threatened with criminal prosecution for selling a non-approved pest management device.
I’m not saying you are wrong on global warming and I know little of bees, but I know way more than most about sleaze and big business and big government (from a decade of personal experience dealing with it). I suggest you reconsider the settings on your sleaze radar for 2015
You need to recalibrate your _sarcasm_ radar. The letter is pretty clearly paying lip service to the PMRA while simultaneously saying we don’t believe a word of their findings on neonicotinoids.
You should probably read the first link in its entirety, Peter.
I am getting old Daniel, but I can still read. I suggest you re-read the two pieces and then note the call to action appended at the end. The take away is that the bought and paid for PMRA is on the side of the angels…as I indicated I do not believe that for a second.
It would be interesting to read the original research on the products. I am guessing, but confident, that the original application for the neonicotinoid took fewer than the SEVEN YEARS it took get a license to sell cayenne capsules at a firm I used to be with. Of course that application would be a trade secret. The highly likely truth is that another firm that wishes to steal market share is behind the push for a ban and offers a product just as suspect as the one it wishes to replace.
BIRDS AND POEPLE HAVE DIED BECUASE RACHEAL CARSON LIED
Bingo. She is right up there with Mao,Stalin etc.
My family was involved in the sale of herbicides, pesticides, bulk fuel etc. I could write a book on government regulations regarding farm chemicals. In or about 1986, we had an infestation of grasshoppers in Southern Sask. The most effective chemical was Furadan (Carbofuran) that could be purchased in a variety of containers, and that was in short supply.
Montana had a surplus of Furadan; one wholesaler near Havre had a warehouse full of 45 gallon plastic drums, identical to ours however the label read ”55 US gallons.” Canada Customs kept us from crossing the border with Furadan until we could find a label that read ”205 liters.”
Needless to say, by the time we got the chemical, thousands of acres of wheat had been lost.
I don’t know much about bees, however if the neighbour’s bees come over onto my field that has been freshly sprayed with Furadan or Decis, (Decis means dead) and they find dead bees amongst the dead grasshoppers, I do know this. The chemical is effective. As for the ones that get splattered on the windshield or the prop, may God keep their souls.
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It’s not WHO is making the claims, it’s a matter of evidence. In this case, the evidence that neonicotinoids are causing problems with bees is weak at best. Australia uses neonicotinoids and is not having the same problems. But then, Oz doesn’t have the Varroa mite that is the actual cause: http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/the-sound-of-se-258.html
The problem with the bees is that the industry changed many years ago, and now instead of having bees on farms in a static manner as they used to, bee keepers truck them all over North America and Canada doing custom pollination of various crops at various times of year. The same hive will travel thousands of miles and be in the same area as hives from all over the country, all the time.
Pretty much tailor made for spreading a bee specific virus, I’d say. But the money is good, so that’s what they do.
I’ll add that H3ll will freeze over before Ontario reverses that pesticide ban. They just loooove to hate pesticides.
Interesting that the federal government employed scientists have decided to openly campaign against the Harper government in the lead up to the next election, supposedly because they don’t like being muzzled when the press call on them for their “objective”, “scientific” thoughts as to “facts”.