The French TV channel ARTE debuted a new documentary on insecticides which you can see here in many languages, including with English subtitles.
Featured are farming and biodiversity experts explaining in depth how fungicides, insecticides and pesticides are designed and their impacts on what environmentalists have called insectageddon, resulting in huge declines of bird and butterfly food and populations. Shockingly, and slowly, the documentary reveals what A-list scientists have discovered. Neonics are not even necessary, as long as soil health is good. Bees are losing their minds from neonics. And though pesticides are approved under rapid time frames, removing them moves at glacial speed. I bet you $20 you will learn new things in this documentary, which entertainingly features Lego sets with insects crawling over them and classical music.
One of the scientists featured is the ultra folksy ex USDA scientist turned organic farmer, Jonathan Lundgren, who I wrote about when he gave the keynote at Ecofarm a few years back. He's one heck of an entertaining guy. There really are good people in this world.
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