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List of Foods We Will Lose if We Don’t Save the Bees | |
H0NEYBEE (OP) User ID: 44736071  United States08/10/2013 09:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It’s time to take a hard look at what we would be missing without bee pollination. Quoting: H0NEYBEE In just the last ten years, over 40% of the bee colonies in the US have suffered Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Bees either become so disoriented they can’t find their way back to their hives and die away from home, or fly back poison-drunk and die at the foot of their queen. There are many arguments as to what is causing CCD, but the most logical and likely culprit is the increased usage of pesticides by the likes of Monsanto and others. A study by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has labeled one pesticide, called clothianidin, as completely unacceptable for use, and banned it from use entirely. Meanwhile, the U.S. uses the same pesticide on more than a third of its crops – nearly 143 million acres. Two more pesticides linked to bee death are imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam. These are also used extensively in the US, while elsewhere, they have been taken out of circulation. Recently, the FDA also seized Terrence Ingram’s bees, a naturalist who had been studying bees for over 30 years, and had a colony that was resistant to Monsanto’s Round Up. Ingram’s prized hives, along with their queens, were destroyed by the FDA, and Ingram was given no warning that his bees would be demolished. List of Crop Plants Pollinated by Bees While we don’t need bees to pollinate every single crop, here is just a brief list of some of the foods we would lose if all our bees continue to perish: Apples Mangos Rambutan Kiwi Fruit Plums Peaches Nectarines Guava Rose Hips Pomegranites Pears Black and Red Currants Alfalfa Okra Strawberries Onions Cashews Cactus Prickly Pear Apricots Allspice Avocados Passion Fruit Lima Beans Kidney Beans Adzuki Beans Green Beans Orchid Plants Custard Apples Cherries Celery Coffee Walnut Cotton Lychee Flax Acerola – used in Vitamin C supplements Macadamia Nuts Sunflower Oil Goa beans Lemons Buckwheat Figs Fennel Limes Quince Carrots Persimmons Palm Oil Loquat Durian Cucumber Hazelnut Cantaloupe Tangelos Coriander Caraway Chestnut Watermelon Star Apples Coconut Tangerines Boysenberries Starfruit Brazil Nuts Beets Mustard Seed Rapeseed Broccoli Cauliflower Cabbage Brussels Sprouts Bok Choy (Chinese Cabbage) Turnips Congo Beans Sword beans Chili peppers, red peppers, bell peppers, green peppers Papaya Safflower Sesame Eggplant Raspberries Elderberries Blackberries Clover Tamarind Cocoa Black Eyed Peas Vanilla Cranberries Tomatoes Grapes If one of your favorites is on this list, you should consider becoming a bee activist. [link to www.realnews24.com] [link to naturalsociety.com] BEE APOCALYPSE NOW Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought [link to qz.com] Illinois illegally seizes bees resistant to Roundup; kills remaining queens [link to foodfreedomgroup.com] Largest Honeybee Loss Ever Recorded In The United Kingdom [link to www.collective-evolution.com] Save the Bees - Save the World Your list is not true or correct, bees are not required to grow more than half of what you have listed. I have been a farmer for 37 years and I can tell you the bee hype is BS and only a small amount of nature requires bees. Most Pollination is done by several factors that have nothing to do with bees. Every other plant crawling insect also carries pollen, wind carries pollen and birds carry most of the pollen..LOL! Please stop with the BEEAGEDON scenarios they are not true. By the way before anyone says a thing I am a natural farmer, zero pesticides and zero GM it's been a family business for 165 years.    The Plight of the Honeybee Mass deaths in bee colonies may mean disaster for farmers--and your favorite foods Time Magazine By Bryan Walsh Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 (Preview to hit the stands) You can thank the Apis mellifera, better known as the Western honeybee, for 1 in every 3 mouthfuls you'll eat today. Honeybees — which pollinate crops like apples, blueberries and cucumbers — are the "glue that holds our agricultural system together," as the journalist Hannah Nordhaus put it in her 2011 book The Beekeeper's Lament. But that glue is failing. Bee hives are dying off or disappearing thanks to a still-unsolved malady called colony collapse disorder (CCD), so much so that commercial beekeepers are being pushed out of the business. So what's killing the honeybees? Pesticides — including a new class called neonicotinoids — seem to be harming bees even at what should be safe levels. Biological threats like the Varroa mite are killing off colonies directly and spreading deadly diseases. As our farms become monocultures of commodity crops like wheat and corn — plants that provide little pollen for foraging bees — honeybees are literally starving to death. If we don't do something, there may not be enough honeybees to meet the pollination demands for valuable crops. But more than that, in a world where up to 100,000 species go extinct each year, the vanishing honeybee could be the herald of a permanently diminished planet. Read more: [link to www.time.com] This is Time Magazine. Not just us giving BEEAGEDON scenarios. "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." Mother Teresa America-We represent 5% of the world, yet we represent 25% of the incarcerated world. We are no longer the "land of the free" we are now the "largest prison nation in the world." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King,Jr. |
| H0NEYBEE (OP) User ID: 44736071 United States08/10/2013 09:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | firstly there is nothing wrong with the bees. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 44691181 only america had a colony disaster last year due to the drought. secondly bees dont do all the pollenation, infact ironically and evidently with america's low count on bees everything is pollenating just fine without them. thirdly the bullshit about it being pesticides is another industry scam to try to destroy the competition. welcome to reality op. Well said, citizen!  Nice handle there "Monsanto PR Dept." Of course you are going to applaud.  "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." Mother Teresa America-We represent 5% of the world, yet we represent 25% of the incarcerated world. We are no longer the "land of the free" we are now the "largest prison nation in the world." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King,Jr. |
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| H0NEYBEE (OP) User ID: 44736071 United States08/10/2013 11:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." Mother Teresa America-We represent 5% of the world, yet we represent 25% of the incarcerated world. We are no longer the "land of the free" we are now the "largest prison nation in the world." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King,Jr. |
