A Voice for Choice Advocacy
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A Voice for Choice Advocacy advocates for people’s rights to be fully informed about the composition, quality, and short- and long-term health effects of all products that go into people’s bodies, such as food, water, air, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.
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A Voice for Choice Advocacy
State lawmakers sign bill limiting residential use of harmful #pesticide

#Colorado #Pollinators #Bees #Neonicotinoids #GetToxicsOut

https://www.nbc11news.com/2023/06/07/state-lawmakers-sign-bill-limiting-residential-use-harmful-pesticide/
KKCO 11 News
State lawmakers sign bill limiting residential use of harmful pesticide
State lawmakers signed a bill on the last day of Colorado’s 2023 legislative session limiting the residential use of neonicotinoids, or neonics pesticides.
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#California #Pesticide Bills on the Move—Again

#Pollinators #Bees #Neonicotinoids #GetToxicsOut

https://www.nrdc.org/bio/lucas-rhoads/california-pesticide-bills-move-again
www.nrdc.org
California Pesticide Bills on the Move—Again
The California Assembly  passed two bills that would help address widespread contamination of the state’s environment with pesticides like neurotoxic neonics.
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Backyard amateur #beekeeping on the rise, including in San Diego County

#Pollinators #Bees

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/outreach/earth8/backyard-beekeeping-on-the-rise-including-in-san-diego-county/509-f44111eb-14a2-46ca-af8b-01a8a5deb3d2 via @CBS8
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#Illinois environmental group seeks ban on #pesticides harmful to #bees

#GetToxicsOut #Neonicotinoids #Pollinators

https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/08/25/illinois-environmental-group-seeks-ban-on-pesticides-harmful-to-bees/
Heartland Signal
Illinois environmental group seeks ban on pesticides harmful to bees
An Illinois group reported toxic pesticides are causing irreversible damage to young, developing bees, putting the bee population in decline and food crops at risk. Bees are pollinators, and scientists said without them, it would be impossible to grow many…
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Pesticides Decimate Millions of Bees in Brazil

#GetToxicsOut #Pesticides #Pollinators #Bees #Brazil

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/scienceandhealth/2023/10/pesticides-decimate-millions-of-bees-in-brazil.shtml
Folha de S.Paulo
Pesticides Decimate Millions of Bees in Brazil
Fipronil is linked to mass deaths, according to experts
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"Let’s say they find a crop and it has been sprayed with pesticides, the bees actually don’t realize that. They just think it’s sweet food.

They will actually collect more hive members to go out and get that food and then they will bring that back and concentrate it into honey.

By doing so, they unknowingly poison one another and their honey, leading to mass die-offs that can happen overnight."

#Bees #Pollinators #Pesticides #GetToxicsOut

https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/oct/22/what-killed-3-million-honey-bees-around-san-diego-beekeepers-fear-the-answer-has-larger-ramifications/
The Columbian
What killed 3 million honey bees around San Diego? Beekeepers fear the answer has larger ramifications
SAN DIEGO — The beekeepers had never seen anything like it before.
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#Pesticides detected in beeswax

#Bees #Pollinators #FoodSupply #GetToxicsOut

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/11/pesticides-detected-beeswax
Cornell Chronicle
Pesticides detected in beeswax | Cornell Chronicle
An analysis of beeswax in managed honeybee hives in New York finds a wide variety of pesticide, herbicide and fungicide residues, exposing current and future generations of bees to long-term toxicity.
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Bees’ mouthparts don’t have the mechanisms needed to detect bitter-tasting pesticides, putting them at high risk of exposure.

#Bees #Pollinators #Pesticides #GetToxicsOut

https://www.iflscience.com/bumblebees-are-unable-to-taste-pesticides-even-at-lethal-levels-71584
IFLScience
Bumblebees Are Unable To Taste Pesticides, Even At Lethal Levels
Bees’ mouthparts don’t have the mechanisms needed to detect bitter-tasting pesticides, putting them at high risk of exposure.
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Citizen Corps - National Meeting - Dr. Dana & Dr. Jana

#Health #Healing #NaturalMedicine #Bees #Honey #BeePollen

https://rumble.com/v3xlh7f-citizen-corps-national-meeting-dr.-dana-and-dr.-jana.html
Rumble
Citizen Corps - National Meeting - Dr. Dana & Dr. Jana
Citizen Corps National Meeting with Dr. Jana Schmidt - November 20, 2023 ---------------- Resources: ---------------- Jana's All Natural https://www.janasallnatural.com ---------------- Healing for th
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'Inert' ingredients in #pesticides may be more toxic to #bees than scientists thought

#Pollinators #GetToxicsOut #ChemicalAgriculture

https://news.yahoo.com/inert-ingredients-pesticides-may-more-131906609.html
Yahoo News
'Inert' ingredients in pesticides may be more toxic to bees than scientists thought
Inert ingredients are added for purposes other than killing pests and are not required under federal law to be tested for safety or identified on pesticide labels.
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