22-02-2013 08:59 AM | United Kingdom

Pesticide battle rages on

The battle over the future of a range of pesticides intensified this week, with Alyn Smith MEP claiming some of his parliamentary colleagues were just “parroting what is in effect lobbying propaganda as if it were gospel handed down on tablets of stone”.

And in another move, a leading agronomist claimed the proposal to ban the neonicotinoids was “bad science based on emotion and not on reality”.
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