Healthy Food House

Bees pollinate a third of our food supply and over 90% of all wild plants, so they are critical for global food production. This means that every third spoonful of food in the world depends on them.

They are also known for producing high-quality food and products that are commonly used in healthcare and other sectors. Therefore, the decline in the population of these hard-working insects is an alarming concern.

In 2018, France decided to place a strict ban on all neonicotinoid insecticides used on farms to repel bugs, due to the dramatic decline in bee populations.

These insecticides were created in the 1990s, as a safe alternative to toxic insecticides that harmed both, animals and humans. They have been a popular way to protect flowering trees and other crops, as they are relatively low-risk for non-target organisms and attack the central nervous system of insects.

Yet, researchers have recently pointed out that these insecticides are the main culprit for a phenomenon known as “Colony Collapse Disorder” in bee colonies worldwide, that killed large numbers of bees.

Moreover, being highly soluble in water, neonicotinoids might endanger the health of aquatic animals when they get into bodies of water.

Due to these concerns, the EU banned three of these insecticides, clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam, but France went further and banned the remaining two as well, thiacloprid and acetamiprid […]

Via https://www.healthyfoodhouse.com/france-is-the-first-country-to-ban-all-5-pesticides-linked-to-bee-deaths