The law seems reasonable since the use of the pesticides is limited and only if there is no alternative. Bees can still feed on flowers in people’s yards and non-farmland.
Christian Pons, the UNAF president, told reporters the law “claims to defend French food sovereignty, but since when is it acceptable to destroy one sector – that of beekeepers – in order to save another, for example that of hazelnut trees?”
Also, how would bees feed on flowers when they’re poisoned, disoriented, and dying?
The law seems reasonable since the use of the pesticides is limited and only if there is no alternative. Bees can still feed on flowers in people’s yards and non-farmland.
Also, how would bees feed on flowers when they’re poisoned, disoriented, and dying?
But there is no choice. It’s either the farm sector or the bee sector. I think the farm sector is more important since it produces more food.
I assume not all bee hives are located near farms.