Big Agro is killing bees in two ways:
- GMO crops and the pesticides used on them:
Hive Collapse Disorder (where the bees just die off and abandon the hive or nest) is totally linked to pesticide poisoning. It is the GMO crop pesticides that have proved so fatal to bees because GMO crops use much higher and more toxic doses of pesticides than non GMO crops. There are also newer, more deadly pesticides that have been developed in recent years. These poisons weaken the bees’ immune systems and leave them open to disease and parasites. The European Union recently outlawed three type of neonicotinoid pesticides that have been scientifically shown to damage the health of bees. And they also allow very few GMO crops to be grown. These are really all good things- both of which should be adopted by the United States too. Colony Collapse Disorder has killed off more than 10 million beehives in North America since 2007 alone. For a fascinating article on all this got started please “GMO Corn and Sick Honey Bees”
- Commercial Transport:
Commercial transport of bees is cruel and causes disease among bee pollinations as they are stressed by transport, and then exposed to foreign viruses, pathogens, and GMO pesticides. Beehives are shipped hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles to pollinate mono crop GMO farms so massive and unnatural that wild pollinators can’t live there.
Commercial pollination is a terrible thing for our bees.
There is a solution!
Pesticides drastically harm bee health, as does commercial transporting. The only solution is to quit using these toxic chemicals (which are destroying the earth and human health anyway) and go back to non-GMO, organic agricultural practices. Support and vote for organic farming as much as possible, and support the banning of commercial hive transport. Keep voting for organic agriculture!
More info on GMO’s and why they must be banned