Albuquerque Beekeepers

Urban beekeeping in New Mexico's largest city.

Please sign this petition to stop the use of bee-harming pesticides

Dear Albuquerque Beekeepers,

A blockbuster study released this week by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), has for the first time labeled the pesticide clothianidin as an "unacceptable" danger to bees.

Scientists have long thought that clothianidin is at least partially to blame for the alarming rate that bees have been dying off in the U.S. - nearly 30% of our bee population, per year, has been lost to so-called colony collapse since 2006.

But the EPA has repeatedly ignored scientists' warnings and Americans' urgings to ban its use, citing lack of evidence. 

Now, the EFSA study could be a major breakthrough to convince the EPA to take emergency action, and suspend the use of clothianidin to stop the precipitous decline in global honeybee populations. 

I just signed a petition urging the EPA to take action. add you name here to speak out for the bees: 

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/efsa_bees/?r_by=-6672290-HiySW8...

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In the same vein,I created a White House petition asking the administration to direct the EPA to do a comprehensive, well-funded third-party study of the effect of agricultural chemicals on honeybees. Please sign...only need 99,999 signatures by March 9!

http://wh.gov/p74m

Now u only need 99,998.. Your welcome!

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