Monbiot in the Guardian 5.8.2013 about the role of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in spreading and defending the use of neonicotinoids: " So here we have a department staggering around like a drunkard with a loaded machine gun, assuring us that it’sh perfectly shafe. The people who should be defending the natural world have conspired with the manufacturers of wide-spectrum biocides to permit levels of destruction at which we can only guess. In doing so they appear to be engineering another silent spring.