Accidental Bee Kill Not Excuse for Bans

“A Stinging Rebuke of Anti-Agriculture Environmental Activists,” by Jeff Stier.
An estimated one hundred people braved scorching outdoor temperatures to attend a memorial service earlier this month. The honorees, however, were not heroes, community figures, or even human. They were bees apparently killed by accident in Wilsonville, Ore. Deemed a “bee kill,” the insects were found dead in a Target parking lot after a pesticide was sprayed on trees infested with aphids. Media attention to the incident has been heightened by anti-agricultural pesticide activists trying to score political points off the dead bugs. According to experts, however, the problem wasn’t the pesticide, it was the application. Read the full article at Pundicity.