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- educate-yourself.org CHEMTRAILS........come on people, it is as plain as the nose on your face. you are so used to seeing them (chemtrails) that they are second nature now. The answer is right in front of your eyes. Wake up. LOOK TO THE SKY.
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- The problem seems synergistic. However, based on what we know about GMOs, pesticides, and declining environmental factors, the bees are like canaries in a coal mine. It is deplorable what we continue to take and demand from our environment yet continue to give little to nothing back. Until we, as individuals, wake up and take responsibility for our daily actions, live consciously, problems such as this will continue. WE are dependent on the health of the environment. Without it, we are nothing. Seems, especially that people with children would be most concerned about it.
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- I think genetically engineered plants that resist disease actually play a part in the immunosuppressant systems of the bees. Healthier plants offer less to keep the bee''s immune systems optimized. This country has already genetically engineered corn, potatoes and many plants with hopes of improving the yeild, but I haven''t read any data assessments for the impacts on bees or other insects with respect to their auto-immune systems. Immunology is an infant science with respect to genetic engineering.
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- Exactly, the honeybees have lived here in harmony since the European settlers. But modern man is killing them off. Pesticides, you watch the news in a fews years that is what will finally be told.
Again, I urge everyone to come to the aide of these beekeepers and contact their state reprenstatives. The Department of Agriculture''s relies on these beekeepers, we need to get financial assitance to the beekeepers to keep them going while this "Colony collapse Disorder" is taken control of.
They literally work to get the food on all of our table. And I prefer American harvested food on my dinner table, as to China''s infested products. - Reply to this comment
- NEW FLASH. Honey bees are not native to the Americas. They were brought to this by Euorpean settlers. This story is just another eco-scare brought to you by CBS and 60 minutes.
After honey bees began to decline in the late 90''s due to throat mite infestations, it was thought that fruit production would decline. This turned out not to be the case. Native pollinating insects such as bumble bees and carpenter bees continued to pollinate crops. Musch as they did before the introduction of the European Honey Bee.
Don''t forget the Americas had thriving agricultural societies before European''s began to collinize them. Some of these cultures even grew pumpkins with great success. This the the crop that the Walmart Grower was so concerned about. These same cultures also cultivated tomatoes, peppers, beans, squash, cotton and other crops without the use of the European honey bee.
Not all food crops are dependent on animal pollinators. Corn and wheat for example are wind pollinated. Potatoes are are reproduced with vegatively and do not need a pollinator. Leaf vegetables such as lettuce, spinach and brocklie are not fruit berring so they don''t need a pollinator for us to eat them. The majority of seed for food crops are hand pollinated by people so bees are not need to produce seeds.
Thank you 60 minutes, for providing a useless scare story without all of the facts. - Reply to this comment
- I urge everyone to come to the aide of these beekeepers and contact their state reprenstatives. The Department of Agriculture''s relies on these beekeepers, we need to get financial assitance to the beekeepers to keep them going while this "Colony collapse Disorder" is taken control of.
They literally work to get the food on all of our table. - Reply to this comment
- I agree with some of the other posters. Why don''t they go back to another pesticide and see if it makes a difference? This would be a relative easy way to determine whether the pesticide is the culprit or not. With the economy leaning towards a recession, the last thing we need is the bee keepers and farmers losing money.
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- Having lived on a small farm for many years, I saw this happening a long time ago. Plants, that blooms fall off of, never having a chance to produce; herbacious plants that can''t be grown the next year because no flowers no seeds.
One day maybe, just maybe, when money isn''t the motivating factor(and it may be sooner than anyone thinks), people will wake up and realize that even the smallest of God''s creations all have a purpose in this Circle of Life.
It''s going to take more than recycling to clean the mess that ''man'' has made on this Earth. - Reply to this comment
- if it is a nicotine pestiside that is killing the bees maybe there is not trace of it in the hives because not a single affected bee makes it back to the hive ?
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- Your thoughts about Global Warming CO2 levels vs. American IQ levels. IQs in America are exactly tracking in reverse the increase in atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.
Posted by danstoned at 09:24 PM : Feb 24, 2008
If you are saying that IQ levels in America are declining at the rate the Co2 levels are rising in the atmosphere...than I must agree. - Reply to this comment
