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Of certain insecticides something bare was keen to hush up they wanted to keep it secret they didnt want to publicize santa thing which will be damaging for the company of it being a study by us to start the debate so they could carry on making money that was. Decent sector science known as mere negative knowing to have earned billions from a company a case of placing owning sober ethics certainly by not martins what isnt normal is breaking the law yes concealing facts your guess should you shores and. How influential is the bay a group and to the authorities fail to exercise proper oversight. But i think our in southwest germany is a fertile region and home to plenty of canola and corn fields cost of car who runs a beef on here. Hes passionate about what he does his bees are like part of a family. It really experienced any problems with pesticides until one spring day 12 years ago. And you passed had appeared in the rhine valley and was threatening to devastate the corn fields to save the harvest. Thirtys allow the large scale use of near nicotine or its only a next step also not. For me i said i could see the farmer sowing his corn and from one moment to the next stop flying it was perfect weather the bills were out origin everything was wonderful but as the farmer sowed his seed everything stopped although these in their disappeared. Insecticide the seed to being treated with resulted in a toxic dust cloud that killed 12000 b. Colonies in the region more than 500000000 being suffered an agonizing death. Is what the best light flashed of benefit was the world or worst case of be poisoning by legal means since b. Conservation began it was very frustrating and very emotional. It really got me down. Close look as though it got so bad that i couldnt drive over to the beehives anymore and every time i got near i was met by the stench of decomposing bees i just couldnt handle it anymore like stick it could. During planting some of the red pesticide coating the corn seeds rubbed off and was released into the environment. Dust will do that so whats that that was sown just in the mice yes or corn seed stress with insect decided to hunt of the mice or cure and this was what happened i think this is to order you see this red dust thats insecticide residue that is rubbed off the seeds and that was released into the air during plantation in the orbit below the gulf and stopped in the bees died instantly. So what types of what if lookin of the that with those that passed through the dust cloud yes. But the worst of it was that the dust settled on flowering plants so the remaining bee is then gathered contaminated pollen i mean you know the pull of the summer at home. Rather than being sprayed on to crops like traditional pesticides minix often applied in the form of a seed dressing the seed coated with insecticide is then drilled into the ground using a seed planter the toxins are affected from the root to the entire plant as a grows making it i mean to pests both in the ground and the field. The state of verdun berg investigated what had gone wrong and what i scar to the p. T. This amazement plane was placed on the mechanical seat planters. The Agriculture Ministry eckerd bears official line saying that had the seeds been sown correctly everything would have been fine clinics were nevertheless banned for use on call in germany theyre still committed for other crops they offer 2200000 euros in fast track aid but only on one condition for the beekeepers. In return i shall seed all existing and future claims to compensation to the state of body of your to. The investigation the government of pardon gotten back had suddenly become a mediation of the offer from day i was actually made by the Agriculture Department has learned by the river bank or no bear it was a state of bad uncertain but they wanted to buy their way out of. It was touted as an emergency aid for the beekeepers because of what they were just covering themselves so there was a real push to settle the matter quickly where they knew the bees had been poisoned otherwise it would have taken a lot longer to get the money to fish that like so many of the beekeepers accepted the compensation and bear was left to learn the ban on the a negative noise and corn wasnt a problem as they were still approved for many other crops between 19022017 around 3700 tons of the agent was sold in germany alone they and other manufacturers like syngenta supplied various nieuwendyk it annoyed to more than 100. 00 countries billions of euros scientists accuse the producers of making money at the expense of the environment. Because studies show that me and they get to know its actually impact entire ecosystems. Dutch toxicologist tang telecast has spent years studying the substances sold by Companies Like bear. He believes near negative no into the most toxic insecticide ever produced we made 10 against every clinic in the never. And even though he was undergoing treatment for pneumonia when we saw him made last year he agreed to speak to us. You name it. Seems Russell Neil Nick it annoyed our water soluble and relatively mobile in the ground theres a very new dish from our so when it rains they are easily washed into the ground water and runoff water we zoom in for brightons easy this means they affect the whole environment and are also absorbed by wild flowers and plants via their roots. When does. The entire landscape becomes toxic for insects. Theres a so its fair to assume that this will result in mass insect deaths were being injected and if the insects disappear the ecosystem collapses theres a thats why this is an ecological armageddon we are destroying the whole of nature. Cantenna has believed that near next to the main cause of insect deaths around the world and that via the food chain theyre also responsible for the decline in the population of birds reptiles and amphibians and theres evidence that the harmful to humans too. So why are these insecticide still being sold. In 2018 the European Union did at least ban 3 of the 5 near naked to no its because of the threat to beings but france had already banned one products containing the toxins back in 1999 it took 19 years for the e. U. To catch up so why did the french authorities act so much earlier. And paris we need scientists sure mark boma time and a beekeeper only come when. They have instigated the 1900 band at the time being he was very experiencing mysterious dialysis for my town proved that any are negative no its produced by there was a plane doing when the results were made public and a big protest at the company was swift to respond. By yelling the very quickly they are starting to exert pressure to get us to keep quiet in our example what they didnt want to be keepers causing problems the book in more tentative and they are sued like for libel. I dont produce honey from sunflowers and i was acting in my capacity as head of the National Union of people this is what they sent me as a private individual and i got your lawyer defended us and we wonder and bear chose not to appeal the ruling but i wasnt the only one here. Who are the scientists also came under pressure the aim was to stop the debate so they can carry on making money he was intimate but the french government was also well known by the mass speed deaths and had commissioned a study thats go you are still giving before we even started our Research Bear began using the Agriculture Ministry to try to impose its methods and threshold values on us so that wasnt a good start if you looked at then when we got our results they came into the lab to check my analysis and find any errors they were desperate to find a mistake but i hadnt made up the end because we had proven that a toxin that poetry and even the blossoms of the plant there were forced to accept our results your body and when i later i mentioned the pressure exerted by bayer to the french media that i then received 2 letters from a beer lawyer one addressed to me personally and one to the head of my institute yet you know they wanted to use their influence to force me to keep my mouth shut if they expected me a scientist to hide my results in order to protect their sales. But yes it would be best that easy but that wasnt his 1st brush with. Works for one of the Top Research Institutions in frocks it was back in the mid 1990 s. That he was commissioned by the french Agriculture Ministry to investigate the mass b. Deaths. Suspicion had fallen on me or nigga to know it 1st made by bayer called i medic hope or it. Says that at the request of the regional agricultural thors hes a employees were actively involved in the 1st study. People but i believe its normal for a company like bayer to be informed if one of its products is being investigated as you want so fake. Called you both to get to their feet but what absolutely isnt normal is when representatives of a Company Whose product is being assessed are not often determining details of the approach to be taken including the financing and even the publication of the final results youll bucky heap a headache sure youve done. There was certainly a lot of money at stake for bayer the investigation began. These were sent on the one hand to fields of sunflowers treated with me and to get to noise on the other 2 untreated fields for control purposes at least thats what John Mcdermott time and his colleagues were told. They were only supposed to analyze the fields containing the bayer pesticides but later they realized that the control field was also contaminated with insecticides. Called youll carry it you know we scientists complained when we realized that the control fields have been treated with fungus eyes and other insecticides have a good for he that they dont think he did it just isnt normal for an experiment of this loving all thats all the kitty. You did a good but the Management Committee for the study ignored our complaints by order new it legal to your theres a good beat it beat it out double secret levy can instead the results of this comparative study which we now know were worthless were taken as proof that a medical oprah is harmless or b. S. You could you eat what is a big. Suddenly they as insecticides appeared beyond suspicion any possibility of a ban have been dismissed for now at least. But boman time and his colleagues at the institute then carried out their own study on behalf of the beekeepers this time but it was not involved and the result was staggering. Them all play about history to give it we were able to prove that everything relevant to the bill is a big whether it was the corn the sunflowers the ball any director water who clean but he everything was going to. Im unable to i mean yet in unicode you know even if you look within the levels of toxins in the open countryside were so high that they were sufficient to either kill the meus or at least cause grave long term problem is to carve she said. In 1909 france then banned the use of nearly get to know its but initially only for some plants that wasnt there not for the beekeepers. They wanted a blanket ban on all me and they get annoyed so i hired the services of a paris lawyer but not for. He took up the case against pay and other manufacturers. Eventually it went to the conceited town branches highest court for administrative cases. Full realize the companies had exploited weaknesses in the licensing systems to get their products on the Market League mr dollar figure modest european directives refer to whats known as the hazard quotient. This quotient is exceeded the manufacturer is obliged to carry out a field experiment under realistic conditions to prove that the product is not harmful. Algal does your head that we discovered that this control experiment which was obligatory in order to gain approval never took place. If the tests had been carried out as european regulations dictated these products would never have been authorized and ive read it if it did that we know its in part thanks to ben no forced persistence that france became the 1st country in the world to ban the use of all near nicotine went in 2018. In germany meanwhile they are continued to earn well from the insecticides clinics were used on many different crops as a panacea for all pests. The discoveries and fronts didnt appear to bother the German Authorities even though beekeepers here complained of heavy losses but a hate figure was until recently president of the European Beekeepers Association he told us of his organizations relief when germany finally announced a study on a declining b. Population but the relief was short lived just thought we realized that the initiative only began once the threat was perceived of germany having to adopt the same stance as france i frequent there was clearly great concern that the insecticides could be banned here to. The industry looking to preempt that move. It would appear that that was the reason why bayh and another next maker syngenta took part in the study other hay figures soon realised something was very wrong you dont see our jobs every year there was an annual report and every year the findings would go through the media. The role i might which causes honeybee deaths is really terrible but we found no crabs with pesticides and it was like the. Relations coup for them obviously we became increasingly critical of how the whole project was structured with the methods they were using they wouldnt have found any link between pesticides and honeybee deaths anyway countries that are not abiola linux have nothing to do with the mass being deaths that was the apparent finding that the find Public Opinion right up until the disaster in prescott in 2008 industry have put huff a 1000000 euros into the be monitoring project bermans if you can assume when you look at how the project was financed its pretty obvious im the one who pays the piper calls on the 2 minute warning the german be monitoring project was financed almost entirely by the insecticide makers. The Beekeepers Association walked out of the project in protest but by this point questions were also being raised about whether near nigga to know its hard not just peace but other wildlife team. Which come to me an expert technical gardens where we meet spanish toxicologist Francisco Sanchez bio he conducted a major study on the annex that attracted global interest. So when youre published youre going to be the beginning of this year what was the conclusion that we found in this in the countries where this has been studied which is mostly European American but also countries around the world like the sail or japan 40 percent of the species of insects of the clanging and among those one 3rd of them are really climate rapidly and they have threatened with extinction. He too says near nickerson noise play a key role in that trend and they dont just kill insects they damage entire ecosystems. By a proof that in japan where he studied irrigation rice fields oprah 2 year period. These ecosystems are home to minute who should freeze no less daphnia as well as crayfish and japanese rice fish called. Meant arca. One day the rice farmers noticed that much of this wildlife was dying apart from the water fleas the crayfish were especially hard hit a laboratory achieving university was asked to investigate the researches soon found the culprit the same near negative knowing that it killed the beings in france when a list of 7 very curiously in the middle of the where in the in the medical some street it was even that lovely where all absolutely all a 100 percent of the fish were contaminated with but it was on but our site and of course we put it down to the fact is that. The only go to nights in here is the him system so its all species were sensitive to the insecticide except ducks. So the whole was then use of it so dufner was an anomaly and they are fortunate fact is that this anomaly had been used as the reason to say that this is sickness i was say for the moment when he was a complete anomaly. The who is and did not kill the tiny watervliet but it is effectively exterminate much larger species that weaken their immune system so severely that they were easy prey for parasite. The results were indisputable or so centuries buyer thought but he hadnt reckoned with the former by a scientist who had actually come to develop me an x. The day i explained the results or the 1st year measure course of studies to the whole group and to the faculty. At the end he just couldnt understand the resource himself and he has me so whether you want to do with these results and i said work the 1st thing i want to do is to publish them because he sounds in nobility and he really me. Didnt know what to say he was speechless do you really want to publish it yes i think its important to let the world know whats happening but they wanted to keep it secret they didnt want to publicize sanity in which would be done it for the company. The toxicologist says the laboratory then terminated his contract but he published the results anyway. The events he witnessed indicate that at least one bayer scientists knew right back in 2004 about the kind of devastation only a look at a noise can cause an ecosystems. From our research it clear that they had tried for decades to provide any kind of universal ban on your nigga to know whats. In front the company sought to intimidate beekeepers and scientists and played a leading role in a questionable study on b. Mortality that exonerated the insecticides. In germany insecticide makers funded at the monitoring project it led to the widespread belief that me and nick it annoyed had nothing to do with mast b. Deaths. And in japan it would appear bayer employees even sought to suppress the publication of a crucial study scientists unproven and the electorate annoyed were responsible for the collapse of entire ecosystems. So what does bear say to all these allegations that Research Results we spent weeks trying to communicate with the company and when denied entry to its premises. Bev represented since refused to talk to us on camera our written questions went unanswered instead the company criticized what it described as unfair treatment by the media and many sent us this general statement. That he remains convinced that the use of munich it annoyed to say for humans and the environment provided be reduced responsibly and in accordance with the instructions for use. The n. Its annoying to only kill pests were told. By a studys claim that not even long term use is harmful to be other insects or fish as for the allegation that bay employees sought to manipulate other studies no comment. We return to dutch toxicologist hank telecasts he spent years studying these pesticides during that time he discovered 2 studies carried out by day of the findings of which are astounding and one scientist describes the effects of the 1st me a nigga to knowledge of the nervous system of a species of flight is a fact that described as a reversible. Amid a cloak produce the 1st highly effective insecticide that works on the principle of almost completely blocking receptors in a way that is virtually irreversible. One of the bay of studies was completed in 1901 so one year before the product was granted in the right approval when tenet is confronted by it with these studies he was taken aback by the response. By of all vets the bayer now claims that the blocking of the receptors in the nervous system is reversible so you still are contradicting themselves. If the effect is reversible it depends on the concentration and so you can define a threshold level were going to. If the market is irreversible you cant find a threshold level and so the effect is cumulative zones rewards for. The original data study is key because if the toxins remain in another system that can lead to death even if the insects were only exposed to a small dose so if they knew that why did the company take no action you knew your cloak in medical open alone generates annual turnover of nearly a 1000000000 euros. Stuff its so i think that led them to just claim something so they could keep selling this pesticide work and. If they consider the impact is substance has they would have had to take it off the market mark. We also asked the bear group about these studies carried out by it and scientists a month again the company declined to comment. Theres enough evidence to prove the dangers and the annex but authorities have either been slow to respond or taken no action at all if we take the European Union for example a look at how pesticides are authorized is highly revealing. First the active ingredient is approved for new wide usage the manufacturer can apply in any member state france was chosen for the 1st near negative. But only the manufacturers test the substance for toxicity and environmental impact. The authorities just do the paperwork. In germany best the federal office of Consumer Protection and food safety along with 3 other agencies none of them test products. So everything depends on studies carried out by the manufacturer as the European Beekeepers Association points out its a system thats all too easy to manipulate. Just think on the manufacturers can intervene at all levels dont even get a say in how any prescribed tests are structured for tests that. You serve us done. Up until now its also been the case that these studies that a manufacturer commissioned or under took remained a corporate c. E. O. For a time as this. The advantage for they couldnt be published on and damn it also steamed me so no one else could tell what the licensing authorities actually checked. We had to drop reproof taught us matters that makes life easy for the authorities because no one can really question their decisions and try to recruit from those well its a very very convenient relationship between industry and regulatory authorities would you rather. To this day it remains a distinctly sickly system what if independent voters were to carry out tests prior to approval instead of these powerful Chemical Companies wed like to discuss this with the German Agriculture minister yulia kleck not for weeks we tried to get an interview when we finally got an appointment we were told that we couldnt use our camera and that the minister had no time for us instead we received a statement saying that the ministry was committed to continuing to develop the approval and licensing procedures on the basis of the latest developments in Science Technology and yet and a directive aimed at tightening the approval regulations for pesticides has been stored for years but germany among those standing in the way. Critics like french lawyer ben awful says the result of successful lobbying by manufacturers like they are. Not before but now youve just hit a lot we mustnt be naive object the goal and purpose of these companies is to make money with these products your supporters dont even know them are good and thats what they do with all means at their disposal if thats normal. Sort of quite enough. Of all the circuit i know what isnt normal is breaking the law concealing facts playing for times. They need dollars dont in order to prevent products that are harmful from being taken off the market to be bought or sticky so no sleep. Even though the evidence is clear. To newer to still one of the most widely used insecticides in the world. They on the one hand has influenced scientific studies and intimidated and seemed as critics while on the other lax licensing rules and off origins have ignored deeply troubling studies have prevented meaningful controls and meaningful changes will Mean Companies being monitored more closely and warnings he did anita. 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