if conspiracy theories can provide comfort to joke like reality can create another . the film about knowledge and belief trust and deception. feed the mob pursuit of the goal of all starts july 1st on t w. it will help. me with beings dying at record rates these beekeepers are protesting against german chemicals giant bayer and a 2 insecticide. no we are the victor links i provided a huge service to society are being pollinate food crops and this is the thanks with us. for decades studies around the world have highlighted the dangers of certain insecticides something bear was keen to hush up they wanted to keep it

secret they didn't want to publicize something which would be damaging for the company of a deer the city by the end was to stop the debate so they could carry on making money with. a decent sec decides known as near negative knowing to have earned billions for the company a case of placing an innings over ethics certainly by not months what isn't normal is breaking the last concealing facts to question you shores up. how influential is the bay a group and to the authorities fail to exercise proper oversight. but i scull in southwest germany is a fertile region and home to plenty of canola and corn fields cost of car runs of beef on here. he's passionate about what he does his bees are like part of the

family. it really experienced any problems with pesticides until one spring day 12 years ago. and you passed have appeared in the rhine valley and was threatening to devastate the corn fields to save the harvest. the authorities allowed the large scale use of me or nicotine or it's on me and next as they're also now. for me up so i could see the farmer sowing his corn and from one moment to the next stop flying it was perfect weather the bees were out foraging everything was wonderful but as the farmer sowed his seed everything stopped although these in their disappeared. insecticide to see to being treated with resulted in a toxic dust cloud that killed 12000 b. colonies in the region more than 500000000 bees suffered an agonizing death.

it's not the best right close to being a fuck it was the world our worst case of be poisoning by legal means since b. conservation began it was very frustrating and very emotional and lots of it really got me down 'd. plus look at the it got so bad that i couldn't drive over to the beehives anymore and every time i got near i was met by the stench of decomposing bees i just couldn't handle it anymore like stick it could. during planting some of the red pesticide coaching the corn seeds rubbed off and was released into the environment. dust was a what's that that was sown this in the mice yes or corn seeds dress with insect decided the hunt of the mice or curing was all what happened i think this is to

order you see this red dust that's insecticide residue that is rubbed off the seeds and that was released into the air during plantation in the albert kilo gulf and stopped in the bees died instantly. so what tires of what if lookin of the that 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 c. 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 stakes have been verdun bergen investigated what had gone wrong and what i scar to the beauty this amazement lane was placed on the mechanical seed planted. the agriculture

ministry echoed beyers official line saying that had the seeds been sewn correctly everything would have been fine clinics were nevertheless banned for use on call in germany they're 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 view to. the investigation the government of button button back had suddenly become a mediation of the offer from bail was actually made by the agriculture department has learned by the river bank or no bear it was a state of bonds that 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 alone the ban on the negative noise in corn wasn't a problem as they were still approved for many other crops between 19822017 around 3700 tonnes of the agent was sold in germany alone and they and other manufacturers like syngenta supplied variously arnica to know it's to more than $100.00 countries and 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 it's actually impact entire ecosystems. dutch toxicologist hang tennis has spent years studying the substances sold by companies like they are. he believes near negative noise are the most toxic insecticides ever produced we metallica's at

a clinic in the never. and even though he was undergoing treatment from a man you know when we saw him made last year he agreed to speak to us. you name it . seems vasilios annoyed our water soluble and relatively mobile in the ground because of injury need a stronger so when it rains they are easily washed into the ground water and runoff water with 0 meat for brighton's use 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. there's a group of them so it's fair to assume that this will result in mass insect deaths we're going to inject and if the insect disappear the ecosystem collapses. that's why this is an ecological armageddon we are destroying the whole of nature.

cantenna has believed that near next are the main cause of insect deaths around the world and that via the food chain they're also responsible for the decline in the population of birds reptiles and amphibians and there's evidence that the harmful to humans too. so why are these insecticide still being sold. and 2800 the european union did at least ban 3 of the 5 near naked to no it's because of the threat to be nice but france had already banned one products containing the toxins back in 1909 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 bomb attack and beekeeper only from whom. they held instigate the $999.00 band at the time be he was very experiencing mysterious dialysis for my time proved that the new year new get to know it's

produced by there were to blame. when the results were made public and the beekeepers protested 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 didn't want to be keepers causing problems is a book in more tentative and they are sued for libel. i don't 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 wasn't the only one here. the scientists also came under pressure the aim was to stop the debate so they can carry on making money when you can isn't it but the french government was also alone by the mass speed deaths and had commissioned a study that says go you will do you think before we even started our research will bear began using the agriculture ministry to try to impose its methods and

threshold values on us so that wasn't a good start if you'll look back 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 people told me but i haven't made any. because we had proven that it talks about poetry even the blossoms of the plant you know they were forced to accept our results what your body and when i later i mentioned the pressure exerted by bayer to the french media that i don't receive 2 letters from a beer lawyer one addressed to me personally and one to the head of my institute 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 was legal best easy but that wasn't his 1st brush with banned. works for one of the top research institutions in france it was back in the mid 1990 s. that he was commissioned by the french agriculture ministry to investigate the mass be deaths. suspicion had for

a nominee or negative noid 1st made by bayer called i made a cloak print. says that at the request of the regional agricultural thor's east bay employees were actively involved in the 1st study. no man could go but i believe it's normal for a company like bayer to be informed if one of its products is being investigated anymore that's your fake. hold your boss give it to their feet but what absolutely isn't normal is when representatives of a company whose product is being assessed are not often the chairman and details of the approach to be taken including the financing and even the publication of the final results you'll bucky heap a headache sure division. 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 only get annoyance on the other 2 untreated fields for control purposes at least that's what drama rama time and his

colleagues were told. they were only supposed to analyze the fields containing the bayer pesticides but later they realized that the controlled fields were also contaminated with insecticides. blurred. you know we scientists complained when we realized that the control fields have been treated with fungus eyes and other insecticides for he that they don't get it he did it just isn't normal for an experiment of this loving not that's all the kitty. you did obviously good but the management committee for the study ignored our complaints about you knew it called the your there's a good beat it beat it out the door seek it levy you 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 at me. suddenly pay as insecticides appear beyond suspicion any possibility of a ban have been dismissed for now at least. but don't want 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 results were staggering. level them all clear about a street of giving we were able to prove that everything relevant to the b.s. is a big whether it was the corn the sunflowers the ball any nectar water who clean that everything was contaminated i mean yeah but you know even if you look within the levels of talks as in the open countryside were so high that they were sufficient to either kill the b.s. or at least cause grief long term problem is hugely to college she said. in 1909 france then banned the use of nigga to know it's but initially only for some plants that wasn't enough for the beekeepers. they wanted a blanket ban on all me and they get annoyed so i hired the services of a paris lawyer for. he took up the case against bayer and other manufacturers.

eventually it went to the conceited town ranters highest court for administrative cases. full realize the companies had exploited weaknesses in the licensing systems to get their products on the market league system dogma modest european directives refer to what's 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. due to notre dame. head that we discovered that this control experiment which was obligatory in order to gain approval it never took place. if the tests had been carried out as european regulations dictated lease products would never have been authorized and i did it if it did that we dropped its in part frankston by no force persistence that france became the 1st country in the world

to ban the use of all near nicotine or it's in 2018. in germany meanwhile they have continued to earn well from the insecticides kleenex were used on many different crops as a panacea for all pests. the discoveries and fronts didn't appear to be all that the german authorities even though beekeepers here complained of heavy losses. but i hafe it was until recently president of the european beekeepers association he told us of his organization's relief when germany finally announced a study on a declining big population but the relief was short lived to start we realised 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 too. was the industry looking to preempt that move. it would appear that that was the reason why they and another next maker

syngenta took part in the study other hay figures soon realised something was very wrong here to 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 a public relations coup for them obviously that we became increasingly critical of how the whole project was structured with the methods they were using and they wouldn't have found any link between pesticides and honeybee deaths anyway countries that are not abhi other. next have nothing to do with the mass deaths that was the apparent finding that the find public opinion might up until the disaster in prescott in 2008 the industry had put huff a 1000000 euros into the be monitoring project womens' if you can assume when you look at how the project was financed it's pretty obvious that on the one who pays

the piper calls or the 2 minute tooling the german be monitoring project was financed almost entirely by the insecticide makers of. the beekeepers association walked out of the project in protest but by this point questions were also being raised about whether any arnica to know it's harm not just peace but other wildlife to. come to me an expert tannic a god. that's where we meet spanish toxicologist francisco sanchez. he conducted a major study on the annex that attracted global interest. so when you published your be in the beginning of this year what was the conclusion that we found that in this in the countries where this has been studied which is mostly european american but also in countries around the world like brazil or japan 40 percent of the species of insects have declining and among those one 3rd of them are really climbing rapidly and they are threatened with extinction. eaten says near nickerson

no it's play a key role in that trend and they don't just kill insects they damage entire ecosystems. fireproof that in japan where he studied irrigation rice fields over a 2 year period. these ecosystems are home to minute water fleas known as daphnia as well as crayfish and japanese rice fish called dhaka. 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 we know melissa of 7 very curiously in the middle of the where in the in the medical some stated within that lobby where all absolutely all a 100 percent of the fish were contaminated with it but it was on but our site and

of course we put it down to the fact is that. the only got to know it's inhibits the humans is them so it's all species were sensitive to the insecticide except ducks. so how was their news wealthy so that was an anomaly and they are unfortunate fact is that this anomaly had been used. the reason to say that this is it is i was say for a moment when he was a complete anomaly. the poison did not kill the tiny whoosh of flames but it is effectively exterminate much larger species that weaken their mean system so severely that they were easy prey for parasites. the results were indisputable so just by a thought but he hadn't reckoned with the format they are scientists who would actually help to develop me an x. the day i explained the resource or the 1st year measure course of studies to the

whole group and to the faculty. at the end he just couldn't understand the resource himself man hears me so whether you want to do with these results and i said work the 1st thing i want to use to publish them because isn't in nobility and he really . didn't know what to say he was speechless and said do you really want to publish it insidious thing is important to let the world know what's happening. but they wanted to keep it secret they didn't want to publicize something which would be done engine for the company. 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 many are look at a noise can cause an ecosystems. from our research it's clear that they have tried for decades to provide any kind of universal ban on the only get to know it's

. 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 have been monitoring project it led to the widespread belief that me only gets annoyed had nothing to do with mass be deaths. and in japan it would have here they are employees even sought to suppress the publication of a crucial study scientists and proven atlantic it annoyed were responsible for the collapse of entire ecosystem just. so what does they are saying to all these allegations that research results we spent weeks trying to communicate with the company and the men denied entry to its premises. they have representatives 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 near nicotine noise is safe for humans and the environment provided they are used responsibly and in accordance with the instructions for use. near nicotine or it only kill pests we're told. by a study's 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 they are the findings of which are astounding and one of their scientists describes the effects of the 1st near naked to knowledge of the nervous system of a species of flight is a fact i described as a reversible. amid a cloak produced 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 bayer 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 it was taken aback by the response. jets the mayor now claims that the blocking of the receptors in the nervous system is reversible so they're contradicting themselves. if the effect is reversible it depends on the concentration and so you can define a threshold level or govern. if the market is irreversible you can't find a threshold level and so the effect is cumulative zooms rewards will sooner. be virginal beta study is key because if the toxins remain in the nervous system that

can lead today even if the insects were only exposed to a small dose so if they knew that why did the company take no action in munich low pretty alarming in medical open alone generates any will turn over of nearly a 1000000000 euros of stuff it's so i think that led them to just claim something so they could keep selling this pesticide. and. if they consider the impact it's substance has they would have had to take it off the market mark. we also asked the bear group about the studies carried out by it and scientists a month again the company declined to comment. there's 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 you why is it the manufacturer can apply and any member state france was chosen for the 1st knee or 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 it's a system that all too easy to manipulate. think on the manufacturers can intervene at all levels they even get a say in how any prescribed tests are structured for tests. this have us done. up until now it's also been the case that the studies that

a manufacturer commissioned or undertook remained a corporal separate times to well. the other one is they couldn't 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 taht just matters that makes life easy for the authorities because no one can really question their decisions and try to replace roku from as well as the abuse of a very convenient relationship between industry and regulatory authorities would you rather. to this day it remains a distinctly sickly system what if an independent abode trees were to carry out tests prior to approval instead of these powerful chemical companies we'd like to discuss this with a german agriculture minister yulia kleckner for weeks we tried to get an interview

when we finally got an appointment we were told that we couldn't 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 and technology and yes and the e.u. directive and tightening the approval regulations for pesticides has been stalled for years but germany among those standing in the way. critics like french lawyer ben are full says the result of successful lobby and by manufacturers like they are . not before but now you've just said we mustn't be naive object the goal and purpose of these companies is to make money with these products your supporters don't even know them are good and that's what they do building with all means at their disposal if that's normal. stars are quite enough. of all circuit i know what is

a normal is breaking the law concealing facts looked at playing for time. i knew dollar don't in order to prevent products that are harmful from being taken off the market would you be total stinky so messy. even though the evidence is clear near nicotine or into still one of the most widely used insecticides in the world. they on the one hand has influenced scientific studies and intimidated and seems as critics while on the other lacks licensing rules and all fora teens who have ignored deeply troubling studies have prevented meaningful controls and meaningful changes will mean companies being monitored more closely and warnings he did.

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