Re: Anthropomorphic Planet Destruction - Honey Bees in Danger
Kevin,
I find the article title “5 things that aren’t killing honeybees – and 1 thing that definitely is” quite misleading.
The article lists the 5 suspected causes as:
Cellphones, GMO’s, Malnutrition, pesticides, and loss of habitat.
Then is goes on to argue that all of these are indeed part of the problem, except cellphones. Of course, Monsanto is heavily involved in GMO’s and pesticides.
I am particularly interested in the malnutrition angle. Instead of leaving the honeybees with an adequate supply of honey for the winter, they are feeding them instead a substitute like high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Why? The HFCS is cheaper. So the same toxin (HFCS) included in many of our processed foods causing global obesity is also helping kill off the honeybees.
So, while the article does blame primarily the varroa mite for the recent acceleration of honeybee deaths, it does acknowledge that 4 of the 5 things “that aren’t killing honeybees” are indeed killing honeybees (just slowly).
Titles can be misleading, and the varroa mite is just killing off the honeybees faster than Monsanto can.
Originally posted by Kevin Pacey
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I find the article title “5 things that aren’t killing honeybees – and 1 thing that definitely is” quite misleading.
The article lists the 5 suspected causes as:
Cellphones, GMO’s, Malnutrition, pesticides, and loss of habitat.
Then is goes on to argue that all of these are indeed part of the problem, except cellphones. Of course, Monsanto is heavily involved in GMO’s and pesticides.
I am particularly interested in the malnutrition angle. Instead of leaving the honeybees with an adequate supply of honey for the winter, they are feeding them instead a substitute like high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Why? The HFCS is cheaper. So the same toxin (HFCS) included in many of our processed foods causing global obesity is also helping kill off the honeybees.
So, while the article does blame primarily the varroa mite for the recent acceleration of honeybee deaths, it does acknowledge that 4 of the 5 things “that aren’t killing honeybees” are indeed killing honeybees (just slowly).
Titles can be misleading, and the varroa mite is just killing off the honeybees faster than Monsanto can.
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