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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America
  • Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:36:45 -0600


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

article continued at
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8436










  • [Livingontheland] Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America, Tradingpost, 03/26/2008

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