EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides

Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by sbov on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:52PM (#16943770)

This reminds me of what happened with BPA. The chemical companies use to replace BPA is at least sometimes worse than BPA. But no one seems to care.

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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by alexandercrohde on Friday April 27, 2018 @07:06PM (#16945122)

I care. And I think it's solvable, once we raise the burden of proof.

As it stands, male sperm rates have declined by over 50% in the last 30 years, it's only a matter of time until people switch to a more cautious attitude.

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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by Afton on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:23PM (#16943984)

which is what?

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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by doctorcroc on Friday April 27, 2018 @05:00PM (#16944290)

May not be worse, but by tweaking a constituent group here or there, you can get similar molecules to BPA. Eg. BPF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_F

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