Want Bees? Cut Pesticides - Give Bees a Chance
Channel: GreensEFA
Date: 01/04/2014

Bees and pollinators are bio-indicators of biodiversity and food security: when they start dying in huge numbers then something is seriously wrong with the system. 

As part of 2014's European Week of bees and pollinators, the Greens/EFA Group will organise a series of events from 1 to 4 April to highlight how a pesticide-and-GMO-free agriculture is a prerequisite for healthy bees and pollinators.

This same week, Brussels hosts a series of conferences dealing with bees and pollination. One of these, the Bee Week Conference, takes place for the third consecutive year at the European Parliament . Another conference focuses on pollinators in agriculture . A third one, on Bee Health, will be organised by the European Commission . Two out of these three conferences are supported by the agro-chemical industry and related organisations, which together currently steer the debate on this issue whilst forgetting to mention that the high toxicity of the products they sell is one of the main causes of the collapse of bee populations. 

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