Bees too say that e must cut the use of pesticides in the vineyard
Take a look at the man bee that in China pollinates the fruit trees, and also the sentence for Château Monestier La Tour for having intoxicated the vineyard with phyto-chemicals
Read for you by Donatella Cinelli Colombini
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The signs are numerous and all indicate the same thing: we must reduce the use of phyto-chemicals in agriculture and most of all in the vineyards
Only a few weeks ago we saw the images of the bee-men in China forced to pollinate 95% of fruit trees climbing up the branches. There are millions of Chinese who pollinate 20 trees a day for poor wages after a mad use of pesticides has killed all insects. We must ask ourselves how we will solve the problem in Italy if the same thing happened to our bees. This is a possible scenario as the analysis of the pollen on bees that fly form one flower to another, in 12 European nations has revealed abundant traces of pesticides especially in the “environment sentinels” that live close to the vineyards.
In France too we find confirmation and this time from magistrates who have condemned Château Monestier La Tour for having exposed Sylvie Sorneau to pesticides in her vineyards, so much so that she is intoxicated. <<This is the
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first sentence in France in the farming sector and regarding pesticides>> said Ms Sorneau’s lawyer putting an accent on the revolutionary aspect of the sentence which attributes precise responsibilities to the owners of the vines. Still in France, previously, it had been proven how grape growers who had used pesticides in the vineyard were more prone to get Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. You got it, nothing serious …….just common ailments!
It is true that France is the third world consumer of phyto-chemicals after the USA and Japan, and that surprisingly requires of all foods – apples, lettuce, wheat, oil ….- a check on residual chemicals, but not in wine. In Italy do we do enough to make our farming products clean? The bees seem to say no, as on their hind legs one can find residues of 17 types of pesticides. So let’s, get out there and use chemicals only when it is strictly necessary!