@Kftyrell

Would be angry activist, but too polite. Director of Pesticide Action Network UK @pan_uk, views my own, retweets not endorsement, etc. etc.

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Joined February 2017
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Keith Tyrell retweeted
Riverford@Riverford2 Nov 2022
Half of bread sold in the UK contains at least two different pesticides, new government data has found. This is a rise of 50% from last year, & a major increase over the past decade - @PAN_UK
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Keith Tyrell retweeted
Riverford@Riverford2 Nov 2022
“With the cost of living crisis forcing people to spend less on food, it’s vital that consumers can trust that relatively cheap products like bread won’t expose them to mixtures of chemicals." - @PAN_UK @theresecoffey we need urgent action on to reduce pesticide use now.
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Hmmm - new report signed by Bayer, Mars, McCain Foods, McDonald’s, Mondelez, Olam, PepsiCo, Waitrose and others. Well if these companies changed buying practices, extractive business model, dumped their junk food marketing, etc we might get somewhere.. theguardian.com/environment/…

Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the planet’

Report sponsored by some of the largest food and farming businesses finds pace of shift to sustainable practices too slow

theguardian.com
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LMAO over 500,000 people have signed this petition calling for an immediate general election and now parliament is going to have to debate it on 17 October. petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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#Bees + other pollinating insects are in serious decline. Latest assessment shows more than a third of hoverfly species face extinction due to #pesticides, insensitive farming, habitat loss. Putting #hoverflies out of business will harm crop production. iucn.org/press-release/20221…

Over one third of hoverflies threatened with extinction in Europe - IUCN Red List

Brussels, Belgium, 11 October 2022 (IUCN) – Thirty-seven per cent of all hoverfly species in Europe are threatened with extinction, according to the first continent-wide assessment of this essential...

iucn.org
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Keith Tyrell retweeted
Simon Evans@DrSimEvans10 Oct 2022
Solar farms cover less than 0.1% of the UK's land area See if you can spot them (Our dataviz whizz @tomoprater added them to this non-geographically specific map infographic) carbonbrief.org/factcheck-is…
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Please retweet if you agree with Stephen Fry.
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If I am wrong and @horton_official is right then this is a hill to die on.
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The Environmental Land Management scheme, and especially its Local Nature and Landscape Recovery pillars, are the best hope we have of reversing the collapse of nature in this country. I cannot believe the government is seriously considering canning 5 years of hard work on this.
Helena Horton@horton_official6 Oct 2022
Replying to @horton_official
Anyway the current lay of the land is: - the review comes out 27 oct - LNR & LR (the ambitious nature recovery bits) for the chop - minister refusing to rule out area based payments - talk of payment for nothing (annual up to £10k) for small farmers to support growth
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Seems like a good morning to quote UN Secretary General @antonioguterres: “New fossil fuel investment is moral & economic madness”. “Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But truly dangerous radicals are countries increasing production of fossil fuels”
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Replying to @Kftyrell
In Brazil, during Bolsonaro’s gov, agribusiness companies met 278 times with government officials of MAPA to discuss the relaxation of rules for pesticides, the authorization for testing new substances directly in field trials (instead of labs)!
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There's no economic growth on a dead planet. Pass it on.
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Keith Tyrell retweeted
Dave Goulson@DaveGoulson5 Oct 2022
Stumbled upon this disturbing research from 2020: link.springer.com/article/10… The authors quantify the global number of cases of Unintentional, Acute Pesticide Poisoning (UAPP) in farmers 1/3

RETRACTED ARTICLE: The global distribution of acute unintentional pesticide poisoning: estimations...

BMC Public Health - Human poisoning by pesticides has long been seen as a severe public health problem. As early as 1990, a task force of the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that about...

link.springer.com
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Keith Tyrell retweeted
Dave Goulson@DaveGoulson5 Oct 2022
“Approximately 740,000 annual cases of UAPP were reported.. resulting from 7446 fatalities and 733,921 non-fatal cases. On this basis, we estimate that about 385 million cases of UAPP occur annually world-wide including around 11,000 fatalities." 2/3
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Keith Tyrell retweeted
Dave Goulson@DaveGoulson5 Oct 2022
"Based on a worldwide farming population of approximately 860 million this means that about 44% of farmers are poisoned by pesticides every year.” Wow. Seems like a good reason to sign this petition: petition.parliament.uk/petit… @Sheepdrove #silentearth
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Keith Tyrell retweeted
Jon Sopel
@jonsopel5 Oct 2022
For 4 years when I was US Editor I went to endless Trump rallies where we’d be accused of being ‘enemies of the people’ - the ‘we’ were the media, but also ‘liberals’, civil servants, environmentalists, the swamp, the think tanks. All felt a bit familiar in B’ham today
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Who voted for this?
Two protesters at #CPC22 holding up a banner that says #WhoVotedForThis?

ALT Two protesters at #CPC22 holding up a banner that says #WhoVotedForThis?

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Keith Tyrell retweeted
Sam Bright@WritesBright5 Oct 2022
A very good question – which every broadcaster should be asking.
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Polling commissioned by an array of groups shows that the British public - including Conservative voters - does not support the weakening of social and environmental protections. Indeed, 74% consider existing protections insufficient. unchecked.uk/wp-content/uplo… #CPC22
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People from minority ethnic backgrounds make up just 14% of the UK's population. But they make up 44% of the population in areas of the UK with dangerous levels of air pollution. This is what environmental racism looks like.
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