i'm going to come to germany. months ago my license to work as a swimming instructor up to shine our 2 children $100.00 just run faster just. what's your story take part share it on in for migraine start. with beans dying at record rates these beekeepers are protesting against german chemicals giant bayer and a 2 sector site. where the victor links provided a huge service to society just like our bees 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 are right there the city by the end was to stop the debate so they could carry on making money with a. decent sector sites known as near negative no i don't have earned billions for the company a case of placing an innings over ethics surgeon if i not known what isn't normal is breaking the law lost them concealing facts your guess should you shores and. how influential is the bay group and to the authorities failed 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 run to be found here. he's passionate about what he does his babies 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 the authorities allowed the large scale use of near nicotine or it's 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 i stopped 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 the air disappeared. insecticide the seeds had been treated with resulted in a toxic dust cloud that killed 12000 b. colonies in the region more than 500000000 bees suffered an agonizing death.

slot the best light flashed of benefit was the world our worst case of be poisoning by legal means since b. conservation began it was very frustrating and very emotional. it really got me down but. it was about so 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 d.s. i just couldn't 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 what's that that was so on this in the mice yes or corn seeds dress with insecticide but under the mask ok it 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 it was released into the air during plantation in the orbital goven stop in the bees died instantly. so what types of what if you look in 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 plant the toxins are effective from the root to the entire plant as a growth 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 ask up to the computers announcement plane was placed on the mechanical feed plant is. the agriculture

ministry eckerd bears official line saying that had the seeds been sown correctly everything would have been fine and the unix would nevertheless banned for use on call in germany they're still committed for other crops they offered 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 bottom of your conduct. the investigation the government of pardon looking back had suddenly become the mediation of the offer from bay i was actually made by the agriculture department this long by the river bank or no bear it was a state of baden's it 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 has left the land the ban on their negative noise and. corn wasn't a problem as they were still approved for many other crocs between 19022017 around 3700 tons of the agent was sold in germany alone and they and other manufacturers like syngenta supplied various neo negative though it's 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 mia negative noise actually impact in time ecosystems. dutch toxicologist hang tennis has spent years studying the substances sold by companies like jr. he believes they are negative no into the most toxic insecticide ever produced when a tannic is at

a clinic in the netherlands even though he was undergoing treatment for pneumonia when we saw him made last year he agreed to speak to us. you name a few scenes russell nearly get annoyed as our water soluble and relatively mobile in the ground there's a very and. so when it rains they are easily washed into the ground water and runoff water we will meet for by this means they affect the whole environment and are also absorbed by wild flowers and plants via their roots. we just rooted suitors are in 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 were brilliant. and if the insects disappear the ecosystem collapses. that's why this is an ecological armageddon we are destroying the whole of nature.

cantenna is believed that near next to 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 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 show mark bomb attack and beekeeper only family. they helped instigate the $999.00 ban. at the time behaviors were experiencing mysterious dialysis but my time proved that the new year new get to know it's

produced by a bear which i blame. when the results were made public and the b.g. this protested the company was swift to respond. by yelling the very quickly they are started to exert pressure to get us to keep quiet in our example what they didn't want to be keepers causing problems it took in more tentative and they are sued for libel. i don't produce honey from sunflowers or canola i was acting in my capacity as head of the national union of us. but 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 through the device but the french government was also a loaned by the mass speed deaths and had commissioned a study that's 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 wasn't 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 people told me but i haven't made any big event because me proving that it talks about poetry even the blossoms of the plant they were forced to accept our results as usual the later i mentioned the pressure exerted by bayer to the french media that you do but yeah i can 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 bayer sales. but yes it was legal best that 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 b. deaths. suspicion had fallen on me or nigga to know it 1st made

by bayer called i made a cloak print. says that at the request of the regional agricultural thirty's a employees were actively involved in the 1st study. people but i believe it's normal for a company like bayer to be informed if one of its products is being investigated as i think supporters. all due bosky to their feet but what absolutely isn't normal is when representatives of the company whose product is being assessed are not all of them determining details of the approach to be taken including the financing and even the publication of the final results your bucky heap and a headache sure you've 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 neon nicotine or it's on the other 2 untreated fields to 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 control field was also contaminated with insecticides. called you'll carry it you know we scientists complained when we realized that the control fields have been treated with fungus eyes and other insecticides for he does it he did it just isn't normal for an experiment of this loving not that's all the kenedy. you did a good but the management committee for the study had nordyke complaints by the new it legal to your the drug will be could be towed out will seek a levy who can instead the results of this comparative study which we now know were worthless were taken as proof that a medical oprah is harmless for obesity could you eat what is a day. suddenly be 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 results were staggering. the them all clear about the street to give it you were able to prove that everything relevant to the be of is a big whether it was the corn the sunflowers the ball and a director who water who clean but he everything was contaminated i mean yeah he knew and he could you know even if you look at the levels of toxins in the open countryside were so high that they were sufficient to either kill the b.s. for at least a cause great long term problem is to college she said. in 1909 france then banned the use of merely get to know its but initially only for some flags that wasn't enough for the beekeeper as. they wanted a blanket ban on all me only get annoyed so i hired the services of a paris lawyer but not for. he took up the case against bayer and other

manufacturers. eventually and went to the conceited town frontis highest court for administrative cases. full realize the companies had exploited weaknesses in the licensing systems to get their products on the market league's dogma that european directives refer to what's known as the hazard quotient if 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. did you know. 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 lease products would never have been authorized and i've read it if it did i mean it's in part thanks to ben no falls 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 new nics were used on many different crops as a panacea for all pests. the discoveries in france didn't 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 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 bayh and another next maker

syngenta took part in the study other hay figures soon realised something was very wrong you don't see our jobs and 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 we became increasingly critical of how the whole project was structured with the methods they were using they wouldn't have found any link between. as the sides in honeybee deaths anyway countries that's been a dobie other linux have nothing to do with the mass be deaths that was the apparent finding that defined public opinion right up until the disaster in brasco in 2008 the industry had put huff a 1000000 euros into the be monitoring project berman's if you can assume when you look at how the project was financed it's pretty obvious i'm the one who pays the

piper calls or the 2 minute towing 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 it's harm not just peace but other wildlife team. which come to me an expert tanika gardens where we meet spanish toxicologist francisco sanchez bio he conducted a major study on the annex that attracted global interest. so when you published your study 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 countries around the world are going to see a lot of japan 40 percent of the species of insects declining and among those one 3rd of them are really climbing rapidly and they have threatened with extinction.

eaton says near nicus annoyance 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 my new twitter fleece known as daphnia as well as crayfish and japanese rice fish called my doc and. one day the rice farmers noticed that much of this wildlife was dying apart from the water fleas 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 front we nevertheless of service very curiously in the middle after they were in the in the medical some st it was even that lovely 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 that. nearly 40 nights inhibits the him system so it's all species we're sensitive to the insect he said except ducks. so the hole was then used wealthy so dufner was an anomaly and they are fortunate fact is that this anomaly had been used as the reason to say that this insect is i was say for the moment when he was a complete anomaly. the poison did not kill the tiny watervliet but it did affectively exterminate much larger species that weaken their means system so severely that they were easy prey for parasite. the results were in the speech of go or so such as by a thought but he hadn't reckoned with the format they assigned to it actually helped to develop me and next day i explained the results for 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 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 it sounds in nobility and he really mean. do you know what to say he was speechless do you really want to publish it yes i think it's 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. 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 scientist knew right back in 2004 about the kind of devastation that nearly get annoyed can cause an ecosystems. from our research it's clear that they are tried for decades to provide any kind of universal ban on near negative noise. 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 nearly get annoyed had nothing to do with mass b. deaths. and in japan it would appear bayer employees even sought to suppress the publication of a crucial study scientists unproven of the a negative noida 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 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. he remains convinced that the use of munich its noise is safe for humans and the environment provided be reduced responsibly and in accordance with the instructions for use. the n. good to know it's 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 day of the findings of which are astounding and one of best scientists describes the effects of the 1st near nica to knowledge of the nervous system of a species of fly these are facts that described as irreversible. 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 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. 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 coverage. if the blockage is irreversible you can't define a threshold level and so the effect is cumulative zooms room one through 3. the original bayer study is keen because of the toxins remain in the nervous 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 miracle are pretty alarming emitter closer to loan generates annual turnover of nearly a 1000000000 euros think of stuff it's 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 the absence has they would have had to take it off the market mark. we also asked the bayer 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 you are using 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 pointed out it's a system that all too easy to manipulate. this thing on the manufacturers can intervene at all levels don't even get a say in how any prescribed tests are structured for tests that. you serve us done. up until now it's also been the case that the studies that

a manufacturer commissioned or under took up remained a corporate c.e.o. for a time as he assured us well. 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 a dog where proved not 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 10 it's a very convenient relationship between industry and regulatory authorities would you rather. to this day remains a distinctly sickly system what if independent voters were to carry out tests prior to approval instead of these powerful chemicals companies we'd 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 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 yet any e.u. directive aimed at tightening the approval regulations for pesticides has been stalled for years but germany among those standing in the way. critics like french lawyer ben awful say it's the result of successful not being by manufacturers like they are. not before but now you've just hit a lot 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 with all means at their disposal if that's normal. sort of. of all show circuit nearby know what isn't normal is breaking the law concealing

facts playing for time. they need dollars don't in order to prevent products that are harmful from being taken off the market would you be thinking so next year. even though the evidence is clear continuing to still one of the most widely used insecticides in the world. bear on the one hand has influenced scientific studies and intimidation and seen just critics while on the other lacks licensing rules and thora t's 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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