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Bee Washing- Multinational corps attempt to discredit science about the impacts of pesticides
Last week, the term “bee-washing” emerged in public conversation. It doesn’t refer to some new bee cleaning service, but to the insidious efforts of Monsanto and other pesticide corporations to discredit science about the impacts of pesticides on (Photo: quisnovus/ Flickr)bees — especially neonicotinoids — by creating public relations tours, new research centers and new marketing strategies.
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/18-5
