The Decline in Bee Population
In the USA and Europe
In the USA over the last half decade about 30% of the nations bee population and nearly a third of bee colonies have perished. Read more...
Estimated global crops pollinated by bees in the order of $200 billion (2005). 70% to 80% of the crops we grow (fruit and vegetables) are polinated by Bees.
Causes are mainly:
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Pesticides, mainly neonicotinoids.
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Infections with Varroa and Acarapis mites;
So what do Bayer and Syngenta do?
Sue the European union to over turn a ban on the pesticides that are killing the bees.
What did Monsato do?
For years they lobbyed government denying the effect of their chemicals on bees.
AVAAZ. Campaigning to save Bees. AVAAZ home page 38,80,556 members as of 16:04 hrs 27/09/2014.
http://sos-bees.org/ Greenpeace.
So if you or I decided to go and destroy production of 70% of the planet's fruit and vegetable supplies, how long would we last before getting sentenced for genocide? NOT long if we didn't get assasinated first.