permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

> http://m.southmilwaukeenow.com/topstories?cid=209038121
> Illinois illegally seizes Bees Resistant to Monsanto's Roundup; Kills
> remaining Queens
>

Illinois illegally seizes Bees Resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup; Kills
remaining Queens
http://www.globalresearch.ca/illinois-illegally-seizes-bees-resistant-to-monsantos-roundup-kills-remaining-queens/5336210

*The Illinois Ag Dept.  illegally seized privately owned bees from renowned
naturalist, Terrence Ingram, without providing him with a search warrant
and before the court hearing on the matter, reports Prairie Advocate News
<http://www.pacc-news.com/5-2-12/heart_ingram5_2_12.html>.*

*Behind the obvious violations of his Constitutional rights is Monsanto.
Ingram was researching Roundup’s effects on bees, which he’s raised for 58
years.  “They ruined 15 years of my research,” he told Prairie Advocate, by
stealing most of his stock.*

A certified letter from the Ag Dept.’s Apiary Inspection Supervisor, Steven
D. Chard, stated:

“During a routine inspection of your honeybee colonies by … Inspectors
Susan Kivikko and Eleanor Balson on October 23, 2011, the bacterial disease
‘American Foulbrood’ was detected in a number of colonies located behind
your house…. Presence of the disease in some of your colonies was confirmed
via test results from the USDA Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville,
Maryland that analyzed samples collected from your apiary….”


<http://www.centralohiobeekeepers.org/cobaprojects/beeyard/yr2010/september06.htm>Ingram
can prove his bees did not have foulbrood, and planned to do so at a
hearing set in April, but the state seized his bees at the end of March.
They have not returned them and no one at the Ag Dept. seems to know where
his bees are.

The bees could have been destroyed, or they could have been turned over to
Monsanto to ascertain why some of his bees are resistant to Roundup.
Without the bees as evidence, Ingram simply cannot defend against the phony
charges of foulbrood.

Worse, all his queens died after Kivikko and Balson “inspected” his
property, outside of his presence and without a warrant.

Of note, Illinois beekeepers are going underground after Ingram’s
experience and refuse to register their hives, in case the state tries to
steal their private property on phony claims.

….
 Terrence Ingram Gets Hearing Three Weeks After Destruction of Evidence
     PrairieAdvocate
https://youtu.be/gqXCboEL-7k
*Published on May 2, 2012*

The little town of Apple River in northeast Jo Daviess County, Illinois is
the hometown of a big man - Terrence Ingram. Though not big in a physical
sense, when it comes to saving the American Bald Eagle, there is hardly
anyone in the United States held in higher regard than Ingram. His years of
documented research and expertise regarding eagles and the work of the
Eagle Nature Foundation, founded by Ingram, is in great part responsible
for the bald eagle being removed from the "Threatened Species List " in the
United States.

Unfortunately, it was not his knowledge of eagles that the Illinois
Department of Agriculture sought when they paid an unannounced visit to his
home in March. It was his bees.

In the March 21, 2012 issue, The Prairie Advocate published a news release
from Ingram that reported the theft of $5000 of his bees and bee hives on
March 14. Ingram said that before they left had left for their
granddaughter's wedding in Texas, the hives had been cleaned and made ready
for new spring swarms.
-- 
Lawrence F. London
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