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informationliberation - No Organic Bee Losses

I’m on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list. The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies.

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Arretez moi donc ces abeilles subversives !

Genetically Engineered Crops May Produce Herbicide Inside Our Intestines

Pioneer Hi-Bred’s website boasts that their genetically modified (GM) Liberty Link corn survives doses of Liberty herbicide, which would normally kill corn. The reason, they say, is that the herbicide becomes “inactive in the corn plant.” They fail to reveal, however, that after you eat the GM corn, some inactive herbicide may become reactivated inside your gut and cause a toxic reaction. In addition, a gene that was inserted into the corn might transfer into the DNA of your gut bacteria, producing long-term effects. These are just a couple of the many potential side-effects of GM crops that critics say put the public at risk.

Cool, on poura dorénavant utiliser des corps humain improductifs pour produire des insecticides et autres matières si chères à produire.

Please Lord, not the bees

Un petit rappel : Plus d’abeille == plus de pollinisation…

No bees? Not just strange, but scary | Inquirer | 04/26/2007

And it’s not just honeybees that are missing. Honeybees, after all, are immigrants from Europe, and the Americas survived quite nicely without them before their arrival with the colonists. But the native bees - ground bees and bumblebees, for example - are gone, too. The only bees I’ve seen since the spring began are wood bees - large, clumsy-looking, bumblebee-like creatures that bore neat circular holes into the wood of the house and lay their eggs in solitary nests. Thank heavens for them, or there wouldn’t be a bee on my property.

But even several hundred wood bees can hardly compensate for the total absence of other pollinators.

What’s happening here?

Collapsing Colonies: Are GM Crops Killing Bees? - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”

Albert Einstein

Monsanto Dumped Toxic Waste in UK

Evidence has emerged that the Monsanto chemical company paid contractors to dump thousands of tonnes of highly toxic waste in British landfill sites, knowing that their chemicals were liable to contaminate wildlife and people. Yesterday the Environment Agency said it had launched an inquiry after the chemicals were found to be polluting underground water supplies and the atmosphere 30 years after they were dumped.

Pour rappeler que Monsanto est traditionellement un fabriquant de produit chimiques hautement toxiques. Il n’est donc pas étonnant que leur produit transgéniques soient aussi toxiques…

Monsanto Buys ‘Terminator’ Seeds Company

WhatReallyHappened.com: SCIENCE/HEALTHArchives
All it will take is one, just one, mutation that allows the terminator gene to escape into the wild and whole sections of the natural food chain will collapse. - M. R.