Vilsack or McCarthy…. Maybe that’s the problem? EPA v. USDA so Obama stepped in?????? I don’t know and am just guessing……
Donna
On Jun 22, 2014, at 7:45 AM, Donna Buell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Presidential acknowledgement of the issue is significant, isn’t it? A task force is not the “usual channels” which are clearly helpless against Big Ag. And a Presidential task force puts the onus on Obama rather than Vilsack —
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> Meanwhile, how many of you have switched to eating only organic? That’s an easy first step. Save a bee yourself today.
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> On Jun 21, 2014, at 3:25 PM, l <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Laurel says this initiative is a feel-good thing. I agree.--Tom Mathews
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Laurel Hopwood <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: CONS-SPST-BIOTECH-FORUM <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sat, Jun 21, 2014 12:26 pm
>> Subject: White House task force charged with saving bees from mysterious decline
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>> http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/20/bees-die-off-mystery-white-house-plan-save
>> White House task force charged with saving bees from mysterious decline
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>> Barack Obama is taking steps save honey bees from the die-off, ordering new research into the pesticides linked to the pollinators' collapse.
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>> The presidential memorandum released by the White House charges a new task force with producing a strategy to stop the alarming decline of honeybees, butterflies and other pollinators. The memorandum also for the first time directs the EPA to carry out research into the role of a new class of pesticides, neonicotinoids, that have been linked with the collapse of the honeybees.
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>> However, Obama stopped short of a ban on neonicotinoids, as the European Union has done.
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>> The Center for Food Safety in its response said: "There is already a wealth of peer reviewed literature demonstrating the harms of pesticides to bees and other pollinators."
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>> laurel writes: The evidence is in about the neonic link with the honeybee demise. Too bad the President bowed down to big ag and failed to follow the EU lead. This is a feel good thing.
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