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Aug 15, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
You may have missed it this morning, but Health Canada has announced a proposal to phase out the use of 2 Neonicotinoid pesticides in outdoor crops. This is Big News™️. canada.ca/en/health-cana…
BUT, I have some potentially unpopular opinions about how this Big News™️ is being reported on and spun, namely how everything is already being centred around bees & pollinators despite the policy being *explicitly not about pollinators*