SBA AGM Vote in the Herald
Check it out here:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/h...cides.20543869
There is also a letter here by Clare Darlaston who spoke on Saturday in defense of Eric's motion:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/commen...cides.20543861
Not much on the views of the beekeepers that voted against the motion. Maybe it is time to write a letter .......
SBA AGM Vote in the Herald
This false equivalence that not supporting a ban amounts to endorsement still annoys me.
Without a supporting framework behind the ban regards to what happens next it remains very difficult to support because the assumption has to be that the path of least resistance is to resume use of what came before and I remain unconvinced that it represents a better choice either for bees or the wider environment as a whole.
SBA AGM Vote in the Herald
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Originally Posted by
Neils
This false equivalence that not supporting a ban amounts to endorsement still annoys me.
Without a supporting framework behind the ban regards to what happens next it remains very difficult to support because the assumption has to be that the path of least resistance is to resume use of what came before and I remain unconvinced that it represents a better choice either for bees or the wider environment as a whole.
I agree wholeheartedly
Neonics kill all invertebrates they come in contact with but to just ban and then watch the fall out is fool hardy . I remember fishing on a nearby river when I heard puffing and panting followed by seeing a chap running with a flag ! He was a marker for a crop spraying light aircraft!. I was next enveloped in a cloud of some noxious substance concocted by the petro-chemical industry. What settled on the water look on a technicolor iridescent sheen !
Please let's not return to those days!
A strategic withdrawal from neonics I has got to be the sane option!
WW
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SBA AGM Vote in the Herald
Bear in mind that the voting members for the motion were smaller and I'll be happy!
Yes, many new beekeepers absorb everything and have a thirst to learn - not all of course.
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SBA AGM Vote in the Herald
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The Drone Ranger
wouldn't it be easier just to adjust the subsidy paid on treated and untreated plantings ?
I presume that you're talking about the improvement in vigour noted by farmers planting neonic seed (unsubstantiated of course), and so them being better for pollinators, and hence a reward warranted for the boost for bees?
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