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Defra are planning to relax an EU-wide ban on pesticides (neonicotinoids) which harm bees. The temporary ban, duration two years, was put in place to allow field research to verify (or otherwise) laboratory research which shows that neonicotinoids harm bees.

Some farmers are finding that they can't control the flea beetle in oil-seed rape crops without neonicotinoids. I feel for them, but we must wait for the results of the field trials to discover whether these pesticides can be used safely. Bees are too important to risk. If we lose our bees, everyone loses - including farmers.

Please sign the petition to ask the Secretary of State to keep the ban in place. At the very least until Parliament reconvenes and can debate this very significant decision.

Read and sign the petition here

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