Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm

In related news, the leading bee research firm announced today that the collapse of the bee population is due entirely to unseasonably cold springs... everywhere on Earth.

Monsanto is a terrorist organization.

Monsanto has been a trusted brand for 100 years.

Stop with your annoying baseless conspiracy theories.

Monsanto is America's Fukushima.

No one lifts a finger to do anything about them.

Reading about Monsanto is much more painful for me than reading about Japanese whaling.


What is being done about this company in the US?

Very much so.

Monsanto is a terrorist organization, they are terrorizing all of us.

The Food industry needs serious and widespread reform.

Just sittin here wonderin if Monsanto is going to be a part of the coming BEAST system? If they can somehow get control of all the bees that do the majority of crop pollination, then whats to stop em from controlling all your food too? Just sayin....

Another great step in the field of biotechnology. You see if bold moves weren't taken by these scientists and corporations we'd still be thinking the world was flat

We know about it, yet people still buy Round-up and we really can't do anything about them. They are like Black-water.

I was about to write about that company.

I feel so sad and unhappy I started to walk away.

Has the company really been sold to China?

Some really terrible negative energy is pouring out of the computer.

Oh dear.

Seems legit.

Now they just have to make sure they don't do anything abnormal. Since they are the one's watching.

Oh wait.

They're the one's responsible for most of it.

Damn.

Goodbye all!

Goodbye food!

Goodbye nature!

Hello new genetics!

Science= religion/magik 2.0

The correlations are astounding. I wonder what science's "witch trials" will look like in the future?

It's ok.

*pats on back*

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A leading bee research firm has just discovered that honeybees LOVE Monsanto Brand® genetically modified foods!

Interesting. I keep bees and HATE the before mentioned company. However, we have had a warm winter & spring; as a result my bees are going gangbusters. As far as a cold spring is concerned, that is bullshit, an extremely cold winter(i.e. arctic type) could cause a problem, but not a chilly spring. If there is anything blooming and some day temps above 50 degrees, the bees are out doing their little bee thing, otherwise they stay in their cluster surrounding the queen.

God will bring to ruin those ruining the Earth. Rev 11:18
Their end will come.

It's not just monsatan its bayer, du point DOW and the rest of them

[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Populations of honey bees and other pollinators have declined worldwide in recent years. A variety of stressors have been implicated as potential causes, including agricultural pesticides. Neonicotinoid insecticides, which are widely used and highly toxic to honey bees, have been found in previous analyses of honey bee pollen and comb material. However, the routes of exposure have remained largely undefined. We used LC/MS-MS to analyze samples of honey bees, pollen stored in the hive and several potential exposure routes associated with plantings of neonicotinoid treated maize. Our results demonstrate that bees are exposed to these compounds and several other agricultural pesticides in several ways throughout the foraging period. During spring, extremely high levels of clothianidin and thiamethoxam were found in planter exhaust material produced during the planting of treated maize seed. We also found neonicotinoids in the soil of each field we sampled, including unplanted fields. Plants visited by foraging bees (dandelions) growing near these fields were found to contain neonicotinoids as well. This indicates deposition of neonicotinoids on the flowers, uptake by the root system, or both. Dead bees collected near hive entrances during the spring sampling period were found to contain clothianidin as well, although whether exposure was oral (consuming pollen) or by contact (soil/planter dust) is unclear. We also detected the insecticide clothianidin in pollen collected by bees and stored in the hive. When maize plants in our field reached anthesis, maize pollen from treated seed was found to contain clothianidin and other pesticides; and honey bees in our study readily collected maize pollen. These findings clarify some of the mechanisms by which honey bees may be exposed to agricultural pesticides throughout the growing season. These results have implications for a wide range of large-scale annual cropping systems that utilize neonicotinoid seed treatments.

I apologize,I was being sarcastic. Monsanto owning the company will make sure that all "research" is slanted in favor of them, and the fault away from them also.

Take this a step further beyond the bees: Humans are also inhaling this contaminated pollen.

I know you were being sarcastic. I am sorry if my response seemd an attack on you. Not my intention. I went off on a Monsanto rant and did not consider how my response could be misunderstood.

Obvious troll is obvious. Monsanto has been highly controversial for the entire span of its existence, as any educated person knows.

Can't wait.

Great, now we can look forward to genetically modified bees. GMOBs.

To the person who said Monsatan is a wonderful company, you are abysmally ignorant and I hope you eat GMO food EVERY SINGLE DAY. And your kids, too. Freakin' shill.

[link to upload.wikimedia.org]

Trusted by their shareholders no doubt.

Well, that's one way to keep that info out of the media...

IULIA FILIP
Occupy Monsanto
April 14, 2012
WILMINGTON, Del. (CN) – Monsanto, Philip Morris and other U.S. tobacco giants knowingly poisoned Argentinean tobacco farmers with pesticides, causing “devastating birth defects” in their children, dozens of workers claim in court.
The farmers, on their own behalf and for their injured children, sued Altria Group fka Philip Morris Cos., Philip Morris USA, Carolina Leaf Tobacco, Universal Corporation fka Universal Leaf Tobacco Company, Monsanto, and their affiliates and Argentine subsidiaries, in New Castle County Court.

we should confiscate Monsantos assets and liquidate them. then burn all their facility to the ground and build organic gardens on the ashes with thriving bee hives. Fuck you Monsanto you stupid cock suckers.