More than ten thousand Irish people signed an EU petition calling for laws to phase out damaging pesticides and to help create bee-friendly farming.
That’s according to Ireland South MEP Grace O’Sullivan. The European Parliament today debated a European Citizens’ Initiative called “Save bees and farmers, towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment.”
The initiative, that gathered more than a million verified signatures, calls for synthetic pesticides to be phased out by 2035 along with the restoration of biodiversity. And it demands support to farmers in the transition to more bee-friendly and environmentally safer farming practices.
Grace O’Sullivan says the European Commission has to act on such a significant petition.
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