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Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:35:18 -0400
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Abeilles, l'imposture écologique , Gil RIVIERE-WEKSTEIN

Bees, ecological sham 
The case of the cursed insecticides 
Gil Rivière-Wekstein 

from a review, approximately translated by Google

1995, panic in the apiaries !  Some beekeepers in several regions of France
deplored unusual mortalities of bees.  Soon, some of them pointed to two
insecticides as solely responsible for these massacres. Thus began the
affair Gaucho and Regent, "cursed" insecticides. After numerous experts,
counter-expertise and legal procedures, this small group of beekeepers got
the suspension in 2004 of the two insecticides. Case closed? Not quite.
After two years of investigations, the journalist Gil River Wekstein reveals
the underside of this story, and shows how ecology has served as a pretext ...  

It also allows us to understand how these "cursed" insecticides have become
the scapegoats to hide the growing difficulties of beekeeping and to
challenge a model based on modern agricultural technological progress. 

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