Monsanto, Bayer Seek Answers to Bee Losses

nbcnews.com ^ | May 20, 2013 | Carey Gillam

[Diogenesis]

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."

[Vendome]

[arderkrag]

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!

[sarasota]

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.

[JRandomFreeper]

Didn't Bayer, via IG Farben have something to do with Zyklon B?

/johnny

[Theoria]

18 historical episodes of similar large-scale losses of honey bees dating back to 1869, etc, commentary

[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?

[Parmy]

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.

[MrB]

Well, obviously the solution is to have everyone buy and/or pay royalties to Monsanto to use their “roundup ready” bees.

[dirtboy]

See post 7.

[virgil283]

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....

[Marcella]

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.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[GraceG]

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.....

[ASouthernGrl]

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

[Mr. Lucky]

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

[ExGeeEye]

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.

[sarasota]

Google Monsanto Protection Act.

[Mr. Lucky]

I take it you don’t know the answer.