Like most poor public policy, the Birds and Bees Protection Act is built on faulty premises and a feel-good name.
Protecting the birds and the bees, that is the aim of a bill in the New York Legislature that passed in June. The bill would ban the use of neonicotinoid insecticides — a move that is dear to the heart of anti-pesticide activists, but that would severely hurt farmers and consumers alike.
The statistics on pollinator decline and colony collapse disorder have long been falsely associated with the use of insecticides. In fact, before insecticides were blamed for "killing the bees," it used to be bioengineered food that was in the crosshairs of activists. The Birds and Bees Protection Act takes a different approach by completely prohibiting the use of these products, bypassing regulatory agencies. However, this approach then requires these agencies to undergo lengthy assessments to determine appropriate emergency use. This process is both burdensome and unfair to farmers.
It is not feasible to suggest that farmers acquire more land to compensate for crop losses or use products that are not equipped to provide adequate protection for their fields.
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