Call for pesticide ban to save our honeybees
The Soil Association is calling on the UK government to ban pesticides implicated in the killing of honeybees. The pesticides under suspicion have already been banned in four other European countries. Of course anybody with a brain not motivated by greed and naked commercial interests knows that pesticides cannot act in accordance with the perceptual differences we put on lifeforms, between insects we declare to be ‘good’ and insects we declare to be ‘pests’. Pesticides are insecticides, meaning they kill insects. All insects. Including our little honey-making, crop-pollinating and utterly essential bees. Get enough of these poisons in your body and they’ll likely help hasten your own demise as well as destroying the fertility and viability of soil in the long-term. That’s the crux of the organic argument, and it’s true.
tags: bees, crops, honey, pesticidesHoney, honey!
Our bees are very busy right now, and it looks like we may get a little honey for ourselves this year, after all! It’s hard to explain, but they seem positively friendly towards me when I’m in the garden. They’re remarkably laid-back!
tags: bees, honey
