There are plenty of people who want to make Bayer and Monsanto out to be the paragons of evil. I am not one of those. As I wrote on this forum two years ago:

> beekeepers using Coumaphos (Checkmite) averted losses of nearly 200 million dollars to the bee industry every year, until 2008, when it the product was reclassified as PT. This indicates Permanent Threshold, which means that the difference between what was made and what might have been lost is moot, because the product's use is firmly in place. The total amount of loss that was avoided by the honey industry attributed to the use of Coumaphos from 1999 to 2007 is set at 1.5 billion dollars

PLB

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