The Great Honeybee Conspiracy. Health Wire Posted by Jimmy Mengel - Thursday, December 16th, 2010 The humble honey bee is getting its fair share of buzz this year — which doesn't bode particularly well for the species, or American agriculture as a whole.
The most recent revelations involve leaked government documents, regulatory malfeasance, and scientific censorship. To mix an insect metaphor, it's quite a tangled web... Since 2006, serious decimation of the North American bee population has taken place. Blame has volleyed from viruses to fungi to cell phone radiation... But a suspect has emerged as enemy number one: Bayer's pesticide clothianidin. Clothianidin is widely used on America's corn crops in addition to other ubiquitous crops like canola, soy, and sugar beets. Leaked EPA documents have detailed the regulatory agency's allowance of clothianidin to maneuver its way through regulatory channels in the face of scientists' warning and flawed studies.
*The italicized portions are from the EPA memos: A warning label? Monsanto. Petitions - Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act. » Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm Alex Jones. Anthony Gucciardi Infowars.com Thursday, April 19, 2012 Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations.
Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically modified corn may be devastating the dying bee population, it is evident that Monsanto is under serious fire for their role in the downfall of the vital insects. It is therefore quite apparent why Monsanto bought one of the largest bee research firms on the planet. It can be found in public company reports hosted on mainstream media that Monsanto scooped up the Beeologics firm back in September 2011. During this time the correlation between Monsanto’s GM crops and the bee decline was not explored in the mainstream, and in fact it was hardly touched upon until Polish officials addressed the serious concern amid the monumental ban. Print this page. Affirmative. Updated: Leaked EPA Document Says Bayer's Clothianidin Kills Honey Bees. Leaked memo shows Bayer product killing bee colonies. Over the last few years there has been a growing concern over the collapsing of bee colonies around the world.
Scientists have expressed great concern over the collapse because without bees we don’t have crop pollination which of course will impact our food chain. Well it turns out that the US Environmental Protection Agency has known for years what the cause of the bee collapse is. Through a leaked memo we found out that the EPA is attributing the collapsing bee colonies to a pesticide developed and sold by Bayer Cropscience, the manufacture of Bayer Aspirin and other drugs. This substance, sold in the USA as clothianidin, disrupts the nervous system of insects, and it’s been a suspect in the mass death of honey bees for years. It’s still available widely.
Not in the least ways surprised about this. Researchers find alarming decline in bumblebees. What a scientist didn't tell the NY Times on honeybee deaths - Oct. 8, 2010. Jerry Bromenshenk, bee investigatorBy Katherine Eban, contributorOctober 8, 2010: 1:42 PM ET FORTUNE -- Few ecological disasters have been as confounding as the massive and devastating die-off of the world's honeybees.
The phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- in which disoriented honeybees die far from their hives -- has kept scientists, beekeepers, and regulators desperately seeking the cause. After all, the honeybee, nature's ultimate utility player, pollinates a third of all the food we eat and contributes an estimated $15 billion in annual agriculture revenue to the U.S. economy. The long list of possible suspects has included pests, viruses, fungi, and also pesticides, particularly so-called neonicotinoids, a class of neurotoxins that kills insects by attacking their nervous systems. What the Times article did not explore -- nor did the study disclose -- was the relationship between the study's lead author, Montana bee researcher Dr. Dr. Bayer v. beekeepers Share this.