Toxic neonicotinoid insecticides (neonics) keep getting emergency authorisation to be used to save the UK's sugar beet crop which helps to safeguard the production of chronic disease producing table sugar for the British public. This is just one example of governments enabling big food (eg British Sugar) and big pharma (eg Bayer, Monsanto) to damage the health of human, pollinators (including bees - and this at a time of declining insect and pollinator populations due to human activity) and our environment. Please vote with your wallet against this madness!
References / Further Reading:
Bayer and the bees | DW Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNSByf4sLA
Insect declines: https://www.somersetwildlife.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/FULL%20AFI%20REPORT%20WEB1_1.pdf
https://www.boerenlandvogels.nl/sites/default/files/2019-02/Sanchez-Bayo%20%26%20Wyckhuys%202019.pdf
About noenicitinoids: https://www.pan-uk.org/about_neonicotinoids/
UK Gov 2023: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/emergency-pesticide-authorisation-approved-to-protect-national-sugar-beet-crop
British sugar funding: https://www.ukri.org/news/funding-boosts-farm-resilience/
Another great video, thanks Philip.
As you say, you really couldn't make it up!
Katherine