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Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8436

March 25, 2008

        ‘Commercial beehives pollinate over a third of [North}America’s crops 
and that web of nourishment encompasses everything from fruits like peaches, 
apples, cherries, strawberries and more, to nuts like California almonds, 90 
percent of which are helped along by the honeybees. Without this pollination, 
you could kiss those crops goodbye, to say nothing of the honey bees produce 
or the flowers they also fertilize’.1

      This essay will discuss the arguments and seriousness pertaining to the 
massive deaths and the decline of Bee colonies in North America. As well, it 
will shed light on a worldwide hunger issue that will have an economical and 
ecological impact in the very near future.

      There are many reasons given to the decline in Bees, but one argument 
that matters most is the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) and 
"Terminator Seeds" that are presently being endorsed by governments and 
forcefully utilized as our primary agricultural needs of survival. I will 
argue what is publicized and covered by the media is in actuality masking the 
real forces at work, namely the impact of genetically modified seeds on the 
reproduction of bee colonies across North America

      Genetically modified seeds are produced and distributed by powerful 
biotech conglomerates. The latter manipulate government agricultural policy 
with a view to supporting their agenda of dominance in the agricultural 
industry. American conglomerates such as Monsanto, Pioneer HiBred and others, 
have created seeds that reproduce only under certain conditions, often linked 
to the use of their own brands of fertilizer and/or insecticide.

The genetic modification of the plant leads to the concurrent genetic 
modification of the flower pollen. When the flower pollen becomes genetically 
modified or sterile, the bees will potentially go malnourished and die of 
illness due to the lack of nutrients and the interruption of the digestive 
capacity of what they feed on through the summer and over the winter 
hibernation process.

      I will argue that the media reports tend to distract public opinion 
from the true cause which underlies  the destruction of bee colonies. As 
such, outlined are four major arguments which the biotech conglomerates 
(which produce and market GMO seeds) have used to mislead the public 
regarding the demise of the bees. These arguments include Varroa mites, 
parasites, cell phones, and terminator seeds

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