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The need to ban the pesticide-neonicotinoids is heating up and the government can no longer drag their heels on this one.

Is it a coincidence that the FSA’s [UK's Food Standards Agency] report on their findings that Organic food has no nutritious benefit over non- organic food, comes at the same time as the government announces the alarming food shortages we are going to suffer in the foreseeable future?

Are the FSA (Food Standards Agency) irresponsible for issuing the result of a report, commissioned by the FSA, carried out by experts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who studied data collected over 50 years which concludes that organic food has no benefits over non-organic food?

It’s The Reds v The Greys.

The Prince of Wales has asked landowners to wipe out grey squirrels from the countryside to protect red squirrels and to save our native woodlands. He has told the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) that it is “absolutely crucial to eliminate the greys”.

As we all know, the Prince of Wales can call upon some hefty influence when he feels something very strongly

I’m not sure where I sit with this one. We have a little grey squirrel who visits us every day. He runs all the way around our perimeter wall, along the fence jumps down on to the road and hurries along to the house at the end of the drive. The lady there feeds him nuts everyday. He has given us so much amusement and entertainment, the thought of wiping him out seems outrageous to me.

Grey squirrels were introduced to Britain from the US in the 19th century and has an estimated population of 3.3 million, compared with 160,000 reds. Red squirrels numbers are increasing which is great as in fact they are making a comeback from near extinction.