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  • From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] CCD, Imidacloprid, Oh My!
  • Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 16:16:35 -0400

On Apr 7, 2012, at 12:58 AM, Todd Lister wrote:

And so does that exonerate these chemicals in your mind?
Todd


This is a response to several people here and some hate mail I got off-list, not just Todd.

You really don't get it do you?  Where did I defend the chemical?

Seriously, its like driving my head against a wall.  Imidacloprid kills and weakens bees.  This has been known for decades and has been studied to the point that most studies almost seem redundant.  I seriously question the safety, overall, of the chemical, but that is not the issue here.

My criticism is that this study claims that they have found the cause of CCD.  It actually makes this claim and yet the results in the test hives do not even match the definition of CCD.  The study overall is HORRIBLE.  What worries me is that the media (and I hate using that term as it suggests something like "liberal media bias, which I think is absurd) regurgitates this poo on paper as fact.

To me this guy from Harvard is no different than someone loon suggesting Intelligent Design is an equal alternative to Evolution.  Its absurd.  But hey, its a paper from someone at a University with a degree or two so it MUST be gospel.

But lots of people drink the kool-aid willingly because hey, it fits the mold of what they think to be true.  Imidacloprid is bad therefore it has to be the problem.  What if CCD is something completely unknown but we stop because someone like YOU tolerates CRAPPY science?

What appalls me even more is that you'll probably criticize a study that had different results because Bayer funded yet have no problem tolerating a study that appears to have been influence by an Organic special interest company.

This is all coming from a me...a farmer than argues with his dad weekly about converting more conventional ground to chemical free, who uses ZERO treatments on his bees, has taken the entire farm to ZERO pesticides and ZERO petro-chemcial fertilizers, and is, on his own dime, experimenting with establishing methods of solid commercial companion planting for natural pest control and freely disseminating that information at NO charge.

I simply expect better...and for that I am attack.  I am not angry, but I do find it all amazing.

Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

(513) 967-1106





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