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neonicotinoids

Over a quarter of US honey bees died over last winter…

25/05/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

There maybe a lot of Brussels bashing going on at the moment but they do do some things right – such as the precautionary restriction in 2013 of the use of neonicotinoid  pesticides on crops which are attractive to bees and other pollinators. Their action was  based on research …

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The GM debate rages anew – so get involved!

08/07/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

There were some serious ripples of green discontent back in May when all of the major supermarkets declared that it had become too difficult for them to source chickens and eggs that had guaranteeably been fed on non-GM feeds as these foods were now too hard to get – even though …

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