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Garth Boyd ‏@garthoid  Oct 21

@john__bennett @ElizabethMay @evansolomoncbc If I retweet this will I get a call from the CRA Gestapo? #cdnpoli

John Heil ‏@JohnRHeil  Oct 21

@john__bennett @ElizabethMay @evansolomoncbc You know if you ban #neonics we'll still have dead bees, this issue has be oversimplified.

John Bennett ‏@john__bennett  Oct 21

@JohnRHeil @ElizabethMay @evansolomoncbc read the EPA report than comment

John Heil ‏@JohnRHeil  Oct 21

@john__bennett @ElizabethMay The EPA says "The EPA is not currently banning or severely restricting the use of the neonicotinoid pesticides"

John Heil ‏@JohnRHeil  Oct 21

@john__bennett @ElizabethMay "The EPA bases its pesticide regulatory decisions on the entire body of scientific literature"

John Heil ‏@JohnRHeil  Oct 21

@john__bennett @ElizabethMay twitter is a bad venue to debate studies due to the character limit.

John Heil ‏@JohnRHeil  Oct 21

@john__bennett @ElizabethMay @evansolomoncbc The report you reference only concerns soybean, and only yield benefits, Not effect on bees.

John Heil ‏@JohnRHeil  Oct 21

@john__bennett @ElizabethMay Based on this info, your argument should be to eliminate gratuitous use of #neonics not a ban.

Kimberly May ‏@ugottabekiddin  Oct 21

@john__bennett @SierraClubCan @ElizabethMay @evansolomoncbc according to CPC, caring abt Bees is radical and will get you audited?

John Bennett ‏@john__bennett  Oct 21

@JohnRHeil it says there is no benefit from the neonics. Ont. is waiting to ban because of pressure from growers who think they need it.

John Heil ‏@JohnRHeil  Oct 21

@john__bennett No benefit when used on soybean as prophylactic granted, but that doesn't mean we should ban #neonics in general.

John Heil ‏@JohnRHeil  Oct 21

@john__bennett Your strategy to pursue a ban is misguided, better to demonstrate success w/o #neonics, then show growers how to save $

John Bennett ‏@john__bennett  Oct 21

@JohnRHeil the EPA’S report did that. That's the point pollinators are being killed, farmers ripped off

Gillian Faulkner ‏@GdfTor  Oct 21

@john__bennett @ElizabethMay @evansolomoncbc It's hard to fathom why it hasn't yet been banned!

John Heil ‏@JohnRHeil  Oct 22

@john__bennett I admire your conviction, but I don't think promoting #neonic bans will accomplish environmental protection.

John Heil ‏@JohnRHeil  Oct 22

@john__bennett and this is why bans will probably backfire http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactance_(psychology) …