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[4est_4est_Gump]

For how long have you been concerned about our dying honey bee population?

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The Center for Food Safety (CFS) recently launched a campaign against Pop Secret: threatening a boycott, calling its product “dirty,” and claiming the popcorn giant was contributing to massive bee-population declines through the use of insecticides on the corn crop.

Harrowing stuff, but the environmentalists’ dirty little secret is that bees are actually doing fine.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, honeybee colonies in the United States, Canada, and Europe have been stable or growing for over two decades. In fact, honeybee populations are up by 80 percent worldwide since 1961. Even the Washington Post recently declared it’s time to “Call off the bee-pocalypse.”

That’s inconvenient for an activist organization like CFS, which stands to profit handsomely off the “bee-pocalypse” myth by suggesting honeybees will soon be extinct and scapegoating a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids. Multiple, highly respected field studies consistently show that exposure to neonic-treated crops has little to no adverse effect on honeybees at the colony level.

Activists understand that if they’re forced to drop this lucrative alarmist charade, they’ll lose their most effective tool for advancing greater regulations on the food and farming industries. Oh, and claiming bees are going extinct brings in plenty of donations as well.

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From: Popping the Bee-Pocalypse Myth
By Julie Gunlock
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/428691/print

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[MissMaidenMinx]

Who cares if they're dying or not, we should help look after them. And every thing else on the planet.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Who cares if they're dying or not, we should help look after them. And every thing else on the planet.

As rural folk, I believe in being a good, competent steward of the land ('cept for the squirrels at my bird feeder). All through the hysteria, the one thing I noticed was that honey did not become a luxury item.