Posted on 03/22/2017 6:10:47 AM PDT by Zakeet
Cheerios cereal brand is under fire for sending out billions of potentially disease-spreading seeds in an attempt to help save bees from extinction.
The brand recently announced that it would mail out free wildflower seeds as part of its "Save the Bees" campaign.
The seeds, once planted, were meant to provide more nectar for the declining bee population.
As of Friday, Cheerios had sent out 1.5 billion seeds, according to General Mills, which owns the cereal brand.
There's one problem with Cheerios' charitable effort, however: some of the wildflower species included in the packet of seeds can do serious damage to various ecosystems across the US, reports Lifehacker.
The packets contain more than 15 species of seeds, including some that are banned in certain states because they can "take up all the space and use up all the resources" and "spread disease" that could be detrimental to plants and humans, an ecologist told Lifehacker.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Dandelions were imported here during the Depression to provide a staple food crop with high iron content... as I have read. In the early 60s Ortho labeled them as weeds...
To: Zakeet
“take up all the space and use up all the resources”
sounds like kudzu....
2 posted on 3/22/2017 8:14:09 AM by stylin19a (Terrorists - “just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there”)
Also sounds like liberals.
The plants not in the guide would be "undocumented"
the pictures in both of your posts (16 & 17) look very, very similar.
sorry ... meant 17 & 18 ....
Those are the bees wearing the little sombreros, right? I see them flying around the Lowe's and Home Depot stores.
The problem with libtards is that they [over]react before getting ALL the facts, and just hear what they want to hear.
they grow into doughnuts.
Wow... My information is very dated. Somehow I never updated my opinion that tire reefs worked. I had no idea this reef failed, and believe I have recently spoken of the “successful” reefs.
Picture 17 is a bowl of Cheerios in 0% milk.
Ever since General Mills jumped into the pro-homosexual lobbying game, I have worked to AVOID their products.
So if I can, I do...they should have just shut their mouths and made foodstuffs.
Bagel seeds.
General Mills, like most large corporations, feel their marketing saviors exist in the form of millennials. I’m picturing the image of the editorial staff at Huff Po right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Reef
Looks like a major disaster and it looks like all tire reef efforts have been failures.
The problem with Libtards is that they firmly believe that they are smart enough to design a human community or an entire ecosystem by themselves.
This folly is obvious to all trusting a higher power.
Most places put store brand equivalants next to more expensive name-brands. Since cereal is a nutritionally devoid food, for the most part, I treat it like a desert and gobble down copious amounts of the generic and store brand equivalents after a lite dinner.
I have really cut down on my carbohydrate intake the past couple years. Helps the weight stay off.
Yep, I remember that too.
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