{"id":16302,"date":"2017-06-21T21:14:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T11:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16302"},"modified":"2024-06-30T23:48:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T13:48:58","slug":"its-high-time-for-a-global-ban-on-bee-killing-pesticides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16302","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s high time for a global ban on bee-killing pesticides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DeadBees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16303\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DeadBees-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"Dead Bees\" width=\"764\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe European Commission is poised to propose a game-changing law to protect bees and other pollinators. The new ban on bee-killing pesticides would go far beyond current protections, banning three deadly neonics from fields all across Europe.<br \/>\nBut these crucial bee-protecting laws aren\u2019t guaranteed to become reality. A small group of politicians is trying to block them before EU member states even get to vote on the regulations.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, a scathing new UN report called the idea that we need neonics to feed ourselves a \u201cmyth\u201d perpetuated by \u201cunethical\u201d corporations like Bayer and Syngenta that have millions in profits riding on continued reliance on bee-killing pesticides.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/actions.sumofus.org\/a\/it-s-high-time-for-a-global-ban-on-bee-killing-pesticides-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/actions.sumofus.org\/a\/it-s-high-time-for-a-global-ban-on-bee-killing-pesticides-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission is poised to propose a game-changing law to protect bees and other pollinators. The new ban on bee-killing pesticides would go far beyond current protections, banning three deadly neonics from fields all across Europe. But these crucial bee-protecting laws aren\u2019t guaranteed to become reality. A small group of politicians is trying to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It\u2019s high time for a global ban on bee-killing pesticides&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52088,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16302\/revisions\/52088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}