Majia
here: I love honey so I've been following the bee colony collapse for years.
The
bee colony collapse is an agricultural and environmental disaster. Much has
been written about the search for the cause of the collapse.
In
2010 I demonstrated how The New York Times operated propagandistically
to shape public interpretations of the causes of the disorder by emphasizing
diseases in bees, without acknowledging that these diseases are believed to be
a result of compromised immune systems caused by pesticides:
Oct
11, 2010
A
New York Times article described the ongoing bee collapse mystery as solved by
the collaboration between a university scientist and the U.S. Military.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html. Since I love ...
Majia here: In 2012 I looked at
evidence that pointed directly to pesticides as the underlying factor causing
bee colony collapse:
Aug
28, 2012
The
second story was published in 2010 and concerned a Wikileaks release of an EPA
report documenting the EPA knew the pesticide class at issue had risks for bees
and other beings. What is frustrating here is that two ...
Majia here: One of the more
interesting items in the Aug 28 Post (above) is a story about a leaked EPA
document showing that the EPA itself suspected pesticides but failed to act:
Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Document Shows It
Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees BY Ariel Schwartz Fri Dec 10,
2010http://www.fastcompany.com/1708896/wiki-bee-leaks-epa-document-reveals-agency-knowingly-allowed-use-of-bee-toxic-pesticide
Majia here: Well it appears that the European Union is
trying to enforce new restrictions on 3 pesticides "suspected" of
causing colony collapse after a report was issued by the European Food Safety
Authority finding the insecticides posed risks for bees.
M. Dalton of the The
Wall Street Journal reports 2/1/2013 on page B5 that the pesticide
manufacturers Syngenta AG and Bayer AG are fighting the proposed regulations
claiming that "environmental
conditions and disease are the main culprits behind the collapse."http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323926104578276040318770624.html
Majia here: Its true that
environmental conditions (pesticides) make bees more vulnerable to disease; of
course, that is not what Bayer had in mind.
Bayer AG has a particularly
pronounced history of evil that is relevant when evaluating their ethics:
Search Results for Bayer and Nazis
Chemical companies that claim
products safe when proven harmful demonstrate that corporations can indeed be
sociopathic.
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"Now
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was leaked to a Colorado beekeeper, shows that the ...
Apr
12, 2012
Wired:
"Controversy Deepens Over Pesticides and Bee Collapse". By Brandon
Keim.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/neonicotinoids-colony-collapse/. [excerpted]
"A controversial new study of honeybee deaths ...
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http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/making-it-home/bee-decline-blamed-on-pesticides
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ith
news that the U.S. honeybee population has been so devastated that some
beekeepers will qualify for disaster relief dollars, comes a report from Purdue
University that one of the causes of honeybee deaths is - as long ...
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