WTF - Part II

Now I'm really, really confused.

 Do you humans know what you're doing?

An article in the New Scientist reports on the recent banning in America of a neonicotinoid sulfoxaflor.

'A worldwide dispute over the threat to bees posed by the class of pesticides called neonicotinoids, took a dramatic new turn last week, when a US court overturned federal approval for a new formulation called sulfoxaflor. Judges found that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had relied on “flawed and limited” data, and its green light was unjustified given the “precariousness of bee populations”.
As a result of the US decisions, rules on the controversial chemicals in the US and European Union are in bizarre contradiction. The US has approved most neonicotinoids while now banning sulfoxaflor.
But the EU has banned most neonicotinoids for use on flowering crops and spring sown crops since 2013, but approved sulfoxaflor in July on the basis that it would not have any unacceptable effects on the environment. “The public will be justifiably confused and concerned,” says Matt Shardlow, CEO of Buglife, a British group that campaigns against neonicotinoids.
The US ruling against sulfoxaflor, which is manufactured by Dow AgroSciences, was made by a federal appeals court in San Francisco and applies nationally. The court found that, in granting approval for sulfoxaflor in 2013, the agency had violated its own rules on obtaining safety information, and should collect more data on its effects on bees before granting approval for its use.'

My head hurts.

In other news the World Health Organisation has decided that glyphosphate is 'probably carcinogenic to humans”.
Several European countries, including Holland, Denmark and Sweden, have banned or restricted the use of glyphosate herbicides by local authorities, because of alleged links with a variety of health problems – not just cancer – ranging from birth defects and kidney failure to celiac disease, colitis and autism.
Another study, in Argentina, suggests a correlation between glyphosate use and the decline in activity in honeybee colonies. And in New York, an environmental group is suing the Environmental Protection Agency for ignoring the dangers of glyphosate which, it claims, has resulted in the demise of the monarch butterfly population.

Glyphosphate is a major ingredient in Roundup one of Monsanto's best selling lines. Monsanto, you know, the neonicitinoid people.

Roundup is easily available from B&Q, Homebase, Tesco's and all good shops everywhere.
Just pop in and ask them 'Have you got any Roundup - you know the stuff that probably could give me cancer and kills bees and butterflies?