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The links below will shock you! What has been going on in agriculture for the last 10 years and more. The ignorance towards the
earth in the name of money. Two agricultural companies, Bayer and Monsanto, will try to make us believe they are doing
what is right for us in this world, that they can feed the world and that we can't live without them. In reality they
put money before all life. These two companies control our global agricultural climate. I'll begin to publish
information and incidentals about genetically engineered food (e.g. bees can't digest engineered proteins because
it binds in the stomach and kills them. Also GMO foods will break down the bees' immune system). Systemic chemicals
are now the number-one killer of bees. Over this last decade the biggest culprit has been one chemical ingredient
known as Neonicotinoid which is added into many farm products like pesticides and fungicides. This chemical is derived
from Nicotine. This has caused a fate worse than AIDS and genocide in our ecosystems. I tell people bees are very lucky,
they have beekeepers trying to keep them alive. All the other insects, mammals, birds, and fish are not so lucky. Their
fate lies at the peril of systemic chemicals like Neonicotinoids and GMO's. Bayer has developed more recently
a robust systemic chemical called Movento which flows through every vein of the plant. Over 12 years ago Florida banned
systemic chemicals that were being used on the oranges because they found a chemical known then as Temik in the orange
juice sold to the public. Since then, Bayer has developed a systemic insecticide that our government considers safe
for human consumption. This is Neonicotinoid. Do you think having a chemical related to nicotine in our food chain
is safe? Do you feel safe eating this chemical? In reality these chemicals do not break down under environmental condition.
They will saturate the soil and build up in plants over time, wash down rivers kill fish, infect other lands downriver, kill
all types of insects that are food to birds and other mammals. We have nobody testing foods, soil, and water. Our governing
bodies will tell you they are spending millions of dollars reseaching the new viruses that have appeared. These viruses are
the result of the bees' immune system being weakened. Neonicotinoids intoxicate and disorient honeybees. Studies
have proven bees that come in contact with Neonicotinoids will weaken and die off over winter. The govenment has
given millions of dollars to research to develop bee-breeding production. Do you think this will compensate for the past
and future losses of bees and our ecosystems? Will beekeepers be able to keep up with the die offs? Farmers have
to ship in bees that are produced for pollination; they too will die off through repeated exposure to insecticides. Because
of the Neonicotinoids' low mammalian toxicities and the small quantities required to control pests, and because they're
relatively imperceptible outside of the plants in the soil, Neonicotinoids are being registered for more and more crops. Interestingly,
they are being sold under many different brand names, even though the ingredients are the same. More brands are coming online
using these ingredients all the time. Here are some trade names currently using neonicotinoids: Imidacloprid -
Admire - Confidor - Condor - Gaucho - Genesis - Merit - Premier - Premise - Prescribe - Provado - Trimax - Thiamethoxam
- Actara - Centric - Cruiser - Flagship - Meridian - Platinum - Clothianidin - Clutch - Danotsu - Poncho - Fipronil.
GMO is dangerous and futile
Mobile phones and vanishing bees
Mystery of disappearing honeybees
Requiem for the honeybees
Requiem For The Honeybee
Institute of Independent Scientists
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network Resources
Neonicotinoid risk assessment
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