Over 75% of the world’s food crops need pollinators.
Yet, bee populations have dropped globally over recent decades due to:
🔸 habitat loss
🔸 climate change
🔸 excessive use of pesticides
Our fertiliser plan promotes healthier ecosystems, which are essential for bees’ survival.
On this #WorldBeeDay, we urge governments, organisations and citizens to help save these precious creatures.
We need to keep our bees busy and well!
While I support this initiative – who doesn't want less pesticides, cleaner waterways, more nature – #WorldBeeDay is about all the other bees, whose numbers are plummeting hand in hand with habitat loss. Honeybees don't need saving; that would be like saying we have to save the birds and we start with the chicken.
"Keeping hives to save bees is like keeping chickens to save birds"
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/keeping-hives-to-save-bees-is-like-keeping-chickens-to-save-birds-1.4023891
"The best way to help bees? Don’t become a beekeeper like I did - When I set up my honeybee hive, I had no idea I might be harming wild bee species. Now I’ve found better ways to encourage biodiversity"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/07/help-bees-dont-become-a-beekeeper-honeybeee-hive-biodiversity
#bees #biodiversity #EcosystemCollapse #HabitatLoss #honeybees
The European Union will extend glyphosate's authorisation for 10 years, even though its member states failed to agree over the active ingredient in Bayer AG's <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/BAYGn.DE" target="_blank">(BAYGn.DE)</a> Roundup weedkiller.
Good to see the EU Commission's move to Mastodon has resulted in the development of excellent memes.
@riggbeck @EUCommission Meh. It's just the LinkedIn meme ham-fistedly shoehorned onto Mastodon.
Political orgs trying to communicate online are hilarious. Can you imagine any other language where they'd go "we don't need a translator, I'll just make similar noises and they'll accept us as one of their own"?
Well I like it.
@woe2you @riggbeck @EUCommission
The Mastodon version would be "I installed Linux on this dandelion in my organic permaculture farm and set up a bash script that automatically extracts nectar every 6 hours"
Also, the bee is neurodivergent
I love the image, but the "excessive use of pesticides" is absolutely something the EU commission could and should be doing something about. Ban glyphosate, please.
@EUCommission On Mastodon, wouldn't the right side simply be:
Bees!
@distinctdipole @EUCommission tagged #bees and alt text.
Or as op posted - no in between 😂
@EUCommission I don't get it what Mastodon has to do with bees.
Do you post similar things to suggest facebook, google or instagram are out of touch with reality, too?
Or, 🤔 Since you post it on mastodon, you want to show how you give in to silliness?
This is too goolge for me - , err… meta. 🤯
@EUCommission Words on the one side and Action on the other my dear!
You know what we really do not like here in the Fedi? It’s liars!
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/glyphosat-eu-kommission-102.html
Die EU-Kommission will bestimmte Pflanzenschutzmittel wie beispielsweise Glyphosat künftig zeitlich unbegrenzt zulassen. Die bislang erforderlichen regelmäßigen Neuzulassungen sollen laut einem Gesetzesvorschlag aus Brüssel abgeschafft werden.
@EUCommission the European commission is memeing on me and I'm not complaining.
Who is responsible for pesticide regulation in the EU?
@EUCommission I enjoy (I don't) how the Mastodon comparison is only used here on fediverse.
(BlueSky) https://bsky.app/profile/ec.europa.eu/post/3mmbrfd3oqk2t
(Meta) https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1404353138396478
Over 75% of the world’s food crops need pollinators. Yet, bee populations are declining due to: 🔸habitat loss 🔸climate change 🔸excessive use of pesticides Our fertiliser plan promotes healthier ecosystems vital for bees’ survival. We need to keep our bees busy and well. #WorldBeeDay
These: Der BS der Propagandameldungen der Kommission könnte locker den Jahresbedarf an Dünger in der EU decken. /s
Another great #succesful post in that #flea #circus that is the #EU and the community manager of this account acting as a track manager.
Does the community manager ever heard about the Bayer - Monsanto rigged buying to past approval of the carcinogenic #RoundUp.
Yeah! Your fleas became giants again. 😒
it's just a joke, relax
always endless, pointless bile under EUCommission's posts
there needs to be a psychological study about it
do you think shouting at this account achieves anything?
it's utterly ineffective. shouting reply guy bile at this account is worthless
and i'm not talking about you specifically, just scroll the entire reply thread, or any reply thread where EUCommission posts
it would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic
There are many things going on, including miserable people and trolls, but I think a lot of people also struggle to understand the nature of the Commission.
On the one hand it's a huge and talented bureaucracy working for the benefit of the people of Europe, on the other hand it's a small diverse group of high ranking appointed politicians, some of whom are incredibly incompetent.
Whoever thinks @EUCommission is a unitary actor will of course think it's wildly hypocritical.
@benroyce @DBG3D
"Whoever thinks EUCommission is a unitary actor will of course think it's wildly hypocritical."
right, exactly
and since we know it isn't, any deranged criticism predicated on acting as if the person behind this account stands in for whatever some EU politician says or does, and therefore must be put on putrid bile blast every time they post something cheerful... it's just a study in how much we all despise toxic assholes
Yeah, for sure. But the bureaucrats are also forced to act as though the Commission is a unitary actor even though it isn't, so there is some degree of hypocracy built in to the system. It's arguably for good reason, but nevertheless—I can see why people get confused and frustrated.
Doesn't make it any less insufferable. Thanks for bothering to counter some of it.
@benroyce @EUCommission @DBG3D
Let me manage my anxiety levels as I see fit.
I live in an area in an EU country where Round Up is still used and farmers do not follow the recommendations on its label.
And I live on the coutryside.
that's certainly a commom mode of social media usage. i'm not sure how useful it is, to you, or anyone else. you pollute our social media space with endless whining, and it's ineffectual
you don't see more effective means to address your concerns? i can think of 3 off the top of my head
but if this is what you want to make of your online posting behavior, so be it. you do whatever you want. we're not your boss
and the cost will be we will judge you for it
If I'm polluting your space you are entitled to block me.
I've tried addressing representatives of my country on the EU, with out a single "Fuck off" as answer.
And I've never found anyone so condescending, overbearing and preposterous as you.
I couldn't care lass that someone so insignificant as you try to judge me.
So Fuck Off.
@EUCommission Nice try. Whoever is working this account - do you really feel you have to work for some people, who say one thing and do the opposite?
Yes - bees are important. So is the ban on pesticides!
Please go to Uschi, tell her hello from Wolf and ask for suspension from having to publish bullshit!
Sorry for the anger - but this is hypocrisy, and I hate it, if people are doing this, people whose income I pay!
@EUCommission
To start saving pollinators we first need to drop the idea that only bees are pollinators. Then we need to educate about native pollinator conservation and ditch the tunnel vision on honeybees. And then we need to ban pollinator extinction biocides.
@EUCommission
Hah, cool meme! Let's not forget that you're on the Fediverse, though, not just Mastodon. (It's like saying "Send me a hotmail!")
You may even want to look up and possibly adopt the @FediverseSymbol
@kinetix @EUCommission @FediverseSymbol
i think of mastodon and the fediverse as interchangeable terms. i know there are other softwares, but it's not a big deal, it's just a common terminology to say "mastodon" and refer to the fediverse
@benroyce @kinetix @EUCommission @FediverseSymbol
That's probably the best social media post the Commission has ever posted.
🇪🇺 They can rest now. 👍
(as usual some users -- what I shan't name - lack a sense of humour)
@miguelpergamon @kinetix @EUCommission @FediverseSymbol
it's not just some users
there seems to be an entire anti-fanbase of losers who glom onto every post from EUCommission and just haul ass and machine gun the most ultranegative bile
all. the. fucking. time.
it's beyond pathetic. these people have serious fucking issues. what kind of massive losers are these people?
i thought the USA and toxic MAGA shit was bad. jesus fucking christ it's embarrassing
@benroyce @miguelpergamon @kinetix @FediverseSymbol
It's all part of the right wing discourse about the EU: that it is corrupted and ultra woke. See: Brexit.
There are plenty of things to criticize about the EU but, compared to the nonsense coming out of the US, it seems to be working moderately well.
@ParadeGrotesque @miguelpergamon @kinetix @FediverseSymbol
and the dimwit endless endless bile trolls, having destroyed the USA, have moved onto trying to destroy the EU
@benroyce @miguelpergamon @kinetix @FediverseSymbol
I think they will find it a bit harder to attack the EU.
Brexit was a wake up call for a lot of people. With Orban out in Hungary and PiS out in Poland, the EU is slowly recovering.
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