The farmers feeding Europe’s sugar addiction are hooked on a much less appealing substance: bee-killing pesticides.
- Eddy Wax
- Politico
Sugar beet growers in 10 EU countries have obtained special authorizations from their governments this year to let them circumvent a strict ban on using neonicotinoid pesticides…
Farmers say they need the pesticides to fight infected aphids carrying a plant disease called virus yellows, which…