Editor,
I sure like food, don’t you? Without food, as a matter of fact, there would stop being people.
We are getting closer and closer to running out of bees that pollinate over 70 percent of our foods. In the last year, over 50 percent of bee colonies died in New Mexico due to a recently popular pesticide called Neonics. Bees are dying off as quickly as wildfire, and the use of Neonic Pesticides needs to be banned if we want to keep eating the foods we eat today.
To stop the bee colonies from dying off, we need to contact the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) to grant a temporary ban on Neonic Pesticides so they can take time to research this pesticide and take a more formal and environmentally friendly approach in the future. If you have a craving for the delicious foods served in New Mexico, you should crave for change to save the bees and assure our food security.
Caine Deegan
UNM student
