We are losing 30% of our honeybees EACH YEAR due to what is called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).
Did you know that the most dangerous place for a beehive in today's world is to be situated in an agricultural community?
After much hard research, scientists discovered that pesticides called neocotinoids, primarily manufactured by Monsanto, Syngenta and Bayer, are the primary cause of Colony Collapse Disorder. Because of this devastation, these pesticides have been banned in the European Union...but not in the United States, where money trumps science, and where the future of our planet is decided by money and lobbyists from huge corporations. The CEOs of Monsanto and of the Food and Drug Administration are interchangeable. One of our Supreme Court justices even worked for Monsanto, but is still allowed to rule on cases involving this company, and naturally rules in their favor. The corruption that endangers the future of our food supply is staggering, and nobody in power is doing a thing to stop it.
In what is called "a massive disinformation campaign," Monsanto, Syngenta and Bayer are pouring great amounts of money into a programs where they are trying to spin the story of the bees, pretending that they are bee friendly. They have the gall to deny the hard science that shows the devastation to bees from the pesticides they manufacture, and are trying to blame bee deaths instead on a certain mite that causes problems for bees called the Varoa Mite, this despite the fact that the way the bees disappear and die from CCD is very different from deaths due to mites.
These corporations, in their desperate need to deny their role in the extinction of the honeybee, have even held conferences purportedly concerned with saving bees, while continuing to deny the true toxic causes of the bees' collapse and their responsibility for this devastation. One of these corporations even wrote a children's book shrugging off bee deaths and attributing them to the Varoa mite, instead of the real cause. Propaganda targeting children and attempting to brainwash them against the truth is, in our minds, a grave and serious evil.
At Grumpy Cherub, we are beekeepers. We know the truth. And we are outraged. Please let your elected officials know that it is imperative to save the bees, and plead with them not to buy into the spin of these corporations who believe profits surpass truth.
Below is a link to an excellent article providing more information about this:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/28-3
