Europe Bans Bee-Harming Pesticides; US Keeps Spraying —By Tom Philpott| Fri May. 3, 2013 3:00 AM PDT Darios/Shutterstock On Monday, the European Commission voted to place a two-year moratorium onmost uses of neonicotinoid pesticides, which are a widely used class of chemicals suspected…
7 Dodgy Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine Here —By Tom Philpott Eiffel Tower: Iakov Kalinin/Shutterstock, Spray can: Knumina Studios/Shutterstock, Skull:Arcady/Shutterstock, Last week, the European Commission voted to place a two-year moratorium on most uses of neonicotinoid pesticides, on the suspicion that they’re contributing to the…
President Obama knowingly signed the Monsanto Protection Act over the insistence of more than 250,000 Americans who signed an urgent letter asking that he use his executive authority to veto H.R. 933 and send it back to Congress to remove the Monsanto Protection Act from the bill. Regretfully, President Obama failed to live up to his oath to protect the American people and our Constitution.