Letter to Theresa May MP on DEFRA granting Syngenta an exception to the EU necotinid ban

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Dear Theresa May,

I am writing to ask you to please contact your colleagues at DEFRA and
press them not to allow Syngenta an exception to the ban on neocotinid
pesticides. Please see:

  http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/512/323/304/

for more information.

Neocotinids have been credibly implicated in the mass dying-off of bee
populations. The more apocalyptic predictions of the impact of bee
death is irreparable damage to our ecosystem as unpollinated plants,
and the chain of animals dependent on them as food sources, die off.

Although it's possible to hand-pollinate plants (as seems to be
happening in China due to dramatically smaller bee populations) this is
not an answer, even at scale. Growers will only pay to pollinate
commercial crops and it seems infeasible to hand pollinate *all*
plants. As plant species die off everything depending upon them will
die.

Who knows where it will lead?

I do not understand why we are even considering allowing Syngenta to
play Russian roulette with our food ecosystem to make a buck on their
pesticides. They have no right.

We should be focusing on doing what we can to preserve bee populations
and hope we can do something to reverse the die off.

Yours sincerely,

Matthew Mower