{"id":33278,"date":"2020-01-27T17:54:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poetsandsailors.com\/?p=33278"},"modified":"2020-01-27T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:54:17","slug":"the-pesticide-industrys-playbook-for-poisoning-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/27\/the-pesticide-industrys-playbook-for-poisoning-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pesticide Industry\u2019s Playbook for Poisoning the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/01\/18\/bees-insecticides-pesticides-neonicotinoids-bayer-monsanto-syngenta\/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=711defee5a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_18&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-711defee5a-134574329\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/insect-theintercept-1579305588.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Though neonicotinoids are banned in the EU, a sophisticated information war has kept these insecticides \u2014 toxic to bees and birds \u2014 on the U.S. market.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading\"><strong>The chemicals are at the heart of what many are calling the \u201cinsect apocalypse.\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/01\/18\/bees-insecticides-pesticides-neonicotinoids-bayer-monsanto-syngenta\/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=711defee5a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_18&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-711defee5a-134574329\">The Pesticide Industry\u2019s Playbook for Poisoning the Earth<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though neonicotinoids are banned in the EU, a sophisticated information war has kept these insecticides \u2014 toxic to bees and birds \u2014 on the U.S.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-ecology","category-poets-sailors-news","category-science","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.poetsandsailors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}