Last month a leaked EPA memo uncovered proof that the U.S. government approved a pesticide the EPA refers to as "toxic to honeybees." Beekeepers and scientists around the world are pointing to Bayer's clothianidin as a leading factor in colony collapse, and four European countries have already banned it. (read more on Grist). Now Food Democracy Now is urging people to tell the EPA to ban the sale and use of clothianidin until proper tests can be conducted.
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