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Yellow peril! Summer’s here and our fields are ablaze with vivid carpets of oilseed rape. It looks pretty — until you learn it’s dripping with chemicals that kill bees, pollute waterways and can make humans ill.

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Summer has finally come to English countryside, and the fields are lined with colorful rapeseed. Oilseed rape is now third-largest arable crop after wheat and barley, covering 1.5 million acres. The plant has a long history, having been grown and harvested in the UK and Europe since medieval times. There is evidence of health effects associated with the cultivation of oilseed rape but no convincing evidence that rape is a cause of widespread disease or ill health in the general population.

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