Submitted on Sunday 29th January 2023
Rejected on Tuesday 31st January 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Reverse the decision by Thérèse Coffey to allow the use of Neonicotinoids.
Neonicotinoids have been described as the Novichok of bees: a single teaspoon is sufficient to kill more than a billion. The UK Expert committee on pesticides thinks the use of such pesticides to control aphids should be rejected. Many scientists and green activists are appalled at their use.
The decision goes directly against the governments pronouncements about protecting the environment and makes a nonsense of other recent policies encouraging environmentally friendly schemes and supporting farmers by subsidies to implement them. The government should be made to explain this decision to protect sugar beet crops by using these banned substances.
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Overturn the decision to allow use of neonicotinoid pesticides on sugar crops
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631948
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