Almost weekly I see city workers openly spraying toxic pesticides all around my neighborhood. They spray this poisonous gas on our children’s playgrounds, the grass where people play and even on the rocks that decorate the city landscape turning them yellow.
It’s truly sickening to watch this toxification of our earth happen day in, and day out. Sometimes I feel like I’m living in a toxic nightmare surrounded by idiots who simply cannot read a label, or even the research proving that these chemicals are DEADLY to humans.
However, there is hope for some people in our crazy world. This past March, French lawmakers approved plans for a total ban on some widely used pesticides blamed for harming bees.
The EU limited the use of neonicotinoid chemicals, produced by companies including Bayer CropScience and Syngenta , two years ago after research pointed to risks for bees, which play a crucial role pollinating crops.
Crop chemical makers say the research blaming neonicotinoid pesticides is not backed up by field evidence and a global plunge in bee numbers in recent years is a complex phenomenon due to multiple factors.
The French outright ban on neonicotinoid pesticides was adopted by a narrow majority late on Thursday by France’s National Assembly as part of a draft bill on biodiversity that also contains an additional tax on palm oil.
The measure, however, would not come into effect until Sept. 1, 2018, later than the January 2017 deadline previously proposed by some lawmakers.
The ban also needs to be approved by the French Senate, which rejected it in a previous reading, before a final vote in the National Assembly which is expected in the middle of the year.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
