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Monsanto, Bayer Seek Answers to Bee Losses
nbcnews.com ^ | May 20, 2013 | Carey Gillam

Posted on 05/28/2013 7:41:22 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion

Monsanto is hosting a "Bee Summit." Bayer AG is breaking ground on a "Bee Care Center." And Sygenta AG is funding grants for research into the accelerating demise of honeybees in the United States, where the insects pollinate fruits and vegetables that make up roughly a quarter of the American diet.

The agrichemical companies are taking these initiatives at a time when their best-selling pesticides are under fire from environmental and food activists who say the chemicals are killing off millions of bees.

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Die-offs of bee populations have accelerated over the last few years to a rate the U.S. government calls unsustainable. Honeybees pollinate plants that produce roughly 25 percent of the foods Americans consume, including apples, almonds, watermelons and beans, according to government reports.

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KEYWORDS: agriculture; beekeeping; bees; boughtfda; bt; bttoxins; ccd; changingdna; criminal; evil; gmo; infiltratedgov; killingplanet; lookinmirror; monsanto; monsantobees; notrust; nwo; pollutingenvironment; roundup; syngenta; workingdogs
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1 posted on 05/28/2013 7:41:22 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Putin kept Kerry waiting 3 hours over Obama ignoring this matter.

"Imidacloprid is a systemic insecticide which acts as an insect neurotoxin
and belongs to a class of chemicals called the neonicotinoids
which act on the central nervous system of insects with much lower toxicity to mammals."

"On 29 April 2013, 15 of the 27 European Union member states voted to enact a 2-year ban on the use of three neonicotinoids.
Eight nations voted against the ban, while four abstained."


2 posted on 05/28/2013 7:44:18 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: BarnacleCenturion

3 posted on 05/28/2013 7:45:54 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
But but but...Monsanto is just an eeeeevvvviiiillll corporation that's run Illumanti chemists! They can't possibly care about the poooooooorrr little honeybees!

TINFOIL HAT RANGER, AWAY!
4 posted on 05/28/2013 7:46:24 AM PDT by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Monsanto pretending they do not know the results of their actions. One can only hope that there is a fearless group of documentarians at work to expose their criminal and politically-protected behavior.


5 posted on 05/28/2013 7:48:30 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Didn't Bayer, via IG Farben have something to do with Zyklon B?

/johnny

6 posted on 05/28/2013 7:48:33 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
18 historical episodes of similar large-scale losses of honey bees dating back to 1869, etc, commentary
7 posted on 05/28/2013 7:48:59 AM PDT by Theoria
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Monsanto should be able to whip up some genetic mods for the Bees.

Hmm..are those killer bees, Africanized bees, GM bees or regular bees?

8 posted on 05/28/2013 7:50:19 AM PDT by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
I was in the fruit industry for 38 years. Talked with several bee-keepers over the years. Those who were successful treated their bee with the utmost care as would any one who raised livestock.

They made sure that their hives were always healthy. They never reduced their hives to subsistence levels bordering them on survival.

They made sure that the bees were inoculated for the mites that can infest hives.

These particular bee-keepers that I talked to had very little of the bee collapse syndrome. Maybe too many keepers don't take care of their livestock like they should.

Just my humble observation with those in the business.

9 posted on 05/28/2013 7:50:56 AM PDT by Parmy
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Well, obviously the solution is to have everyone buy and/or pay royalties to Monsanto to use their “roundup ready” bees.


10 posted on 05/28/2013 7:51:26 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: sarasota

See post 7.


11 posted on 05/28/2013 7:52:09 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: BarnacleCenturion

some of this ‘bee die off’ may be green hype.... the first time this was reported as a die off was in 1867......And a recent discovery was that bee keepers using corn syrup as feed was the cause of recent problems...so take it with a grain of ...honey....


12 posted on 05/28/2013 7:57:26 AM PDT by virgil283 ( ... "I never said most of the things I said."...)
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To: Kartographer; greeneyes

Another article on death of bees and Monsanta - corn seed coated with neonicotinoids. Monsanta will hold a meeting.

Read the article. Enormous death of bees 2012-2013.


13 posted on 05/28/2013 8:01:55 AM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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14 posted on 05/28/2013 8:13:31 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: sonofagun

Monsanto should be able to whip up some genetic mods for the Bees.

Hmm..are those killer bees, Africanized bees, GM bees or regular bees?

Genetically engineer the things to reproduce like flies, lack stingers and smell like vanilla candles.....


15 posted on 05/28/2013 8:30:42 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: BarnacleCenturion

A little CYA research goes a long way with the sheeple. Don’t expect any ground-breaking info to come out of it.


16 posted on 05/28/2013 8:33:15 AM PDT by ASouthernGrl (BHO sucks - literally or metaphorically, you decide.)
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To: sarasota

Just exactly what “actions” of Monsanto are you referring to?


17 posted on 05/28/2013 8:40:21 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: JRandomFreeper

What if they did? It was developed in the 1920s as a pesticide. The chemoical is still produced for the purpose in the Czech Republic under the name “Uragan D2” (Czech “uragan:”, like German “zyklon”, is “cyclone” in English).

The fact that it was used as a tool for murder— even with the producers’ knowledge— does not render the present companies culpable in the Holocaust.

That’s like holding Exxon-Mobil to blame for arsons and murders using gasoline.


18 posted on 05/28/2013 8:48:31 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (It's been over 90 days; time to start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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To: Mr. Lucky

Google Monsanto Protection Act.


19 posted on 05/28/2013 8:52:33 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: sarasota

I take it you don’t know the answer.


20 posted on 05/28/2013 8:54:56 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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