The UK Government allowed farmers sow seeds soaked in chemicals linked to mass bee die-offs.
Bayer and Syngenta were in on the meetings where they decided to allow those neonic chemicals again.
Neonics are banned in the EU for a reason -- and that reason isn't corporate profits. It's to protect our best pollinators -- and our food supply.
We're going to make sure Bayer and Syngenta’s toxic seeds are never planted, starting with a massive radio ad campaign.
Unbelievably, it gets worse: the reason for the overturn of the neonic ban was entirely fabricated -- the oil seed rape crop isn’t in danger.
Growing scientific evidence shows that the nerve agents cause serious harm to bees. But instead of listening to the science, the UK Government bowed to pressure from the intensive farming industry who said oil seed rape crops were in danger. But this year's crop isn't in danger -- it could even be bigger than last year's.
Already, over 350,000 of us have told the UK Government to stop hurting bees -- and the Government is reeling. Day after day, new evidence is coming out showing just how secretive the Government was about this whole deal.
The UK Government gagged its own advisers to try and stop campaigners from piling pressure on the government.
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