洩露的文件：環保署明知批准殺蜂農藥

洩露的文件：環保署明知批准殺蜂農藥
Leaked document: EPA knowingly approved bee-killing pesticide
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
Translation by Autumnson Blog

(NaturalNews) A Colorado beekeeper recently obtained a leaked document revealing that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knows a popular crop pesticide is killing off honey bees, but has allowed its continued approval anyway. Despite opposition from its own scientists, EPA officials first gave the a-okay to Bayer CropScience's toxic pesticide clothianidin in 1993 based on the company's own flawed safety studies. But now it has been revealed that the EPA knew all along about the dangers of clothianidin and decided to just ignore them.
（NaturalNews）一位科羅拉多州的養蜂人最近獲得一份洩漏文件，透露美國環境保護署（EPA）知道一種受歡迎的作物農藥在殺死蜜蜂，但反正已容許它的繼續批准。儘管有來自它自己的科學家的反對，環保署官員首先於 1993年給沒問題予拜耳作物科學的有毒農藥尼丁，根據公司自己有缺陷的安全性研究。但現在已被揭露，環保局全程都知道有關尼丁的危險，並決定不理會它們。
By now, most people know that honeybees are dying off at an incredibly disturbing rate. Colony collapse disorder (CCD), a condition where bees stray from the hive and never find their way back, is nixing millions of nature's pollinators every year. Previous studies have pinpointed various environmental toxins as the primary culprits, including toxic pesticides like clothianidin (http://www.naturalnews.com/028429_c...).

And the leaked document, which was written by the EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, explains clearly that "[c]lothianidin's major risk concern is to nontarget insects (honey bees)" and that "[a]cute toxicity studies to honey bees show that clothianidin is highly toxic on both a contact and an oral basis." The letter was in response to a request from Bayer to have clothianidin approval expanded for use on cotton and mustard in addition to its other approved uses.

So if clothianidin poses a significant threat against honey bees, and the EPA has known about this all along, why was it ever approved in the first place? And if Bayer's original safety studies have been shown to be contradictory to actual science, why has the EPA failed to go after Bayer for falsifying safety data? Apparently those who make the final decisions at the EPA have no actual interest in the truth and would rather cater to corporate interests at the expense of public health.

Several European nations have outlawed the use of clothianidin, including Germany, Francy, Italy and Slovenia. U.S. growers of conventional crops, however, continue to use the dangerous chemical thanks to corrupt EPA officials. And when all the honey bees die and there are no pollinators left to grow food, these same EPA officials will be responsible for the mass murder of millions of people.

Sources for this story include:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1708896/...

http://www.naturalnews.com/030921_EPA_pesticides.html

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