POLAND: PLEAS FOR THE BEES
Last spring, thousands of dead honeybees were laid on the steps of the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to raise awareness of the growing numbers of bee deaths in Poland and worldwide. Over 1,500 beekeepers, increasingly concerned that both agrochemicals and GMOs are playing a significant role in destroying bee colonies, joined members of GMO Free Poland to protest. As a result, Marek Sawicki, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, announced that he had set in motion a ban on GM maize, the only licensed GM food crop in Europe aside from ...
There are approximately 579 more words in this article.
To read the rest of this article, please buy this issue, or join the Resurgence Trust. As a member you will receive access to the complete archive of magazines from May 1966.
If you are already a member, please Sign in
