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doxydad

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Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:08 AM Jun 2014

#Beeghazi!: The conservative war on Obama, science, common sense, and bees

On Friday the White House announced the formation of a task force charged with addressing the issue of rapidly diminishing colonies of honey bees and other pollinators. President Barack Obama ordered the Environmental Protection Agency and United States Department of Agriculture to lead an effort to determine why honey bees, monarch butterflies and other pollinators are dying off, and then recommend ways to boost their conservation.

If you’re a libertarian, and you only care about money, there is also this:

Insect pollination is integral to food security in the United States. Honey bees enable the production of at least 90 commercially grown crops in North America. Globally, 87 of the leading 115 food crops evaluated are dependent on animal pollinators, contributing 35% of global food production.

So this is pretty serious stuff and nobody could possibly dispute the need to stem the loss of bee colonies and other pollinators, thereby helping to ensure future food supplies not only in the U.S., but around the world, right?

Wrong. Guess again.

The good folks at Twitchy, which is a site run by people who move their lips when they read and is dedicated to taking 140-character tweets and dumbing them down even further for their meth-distracted readers, thinks the idea of saving bees and, therefore, the future of food, is the height of high-larity. Beez! OMG! LOL! Bee-rack O-bee-mer! Har har de-har.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/23/beeghazi-the-conservative-war-on-obama-science-common-sense-and-bees/

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#Beeghazi!: The conservative war on Obama, science, common sense, and bees (Original Post) doxydad Jun 2014 OP
Monarch is the new canary. postulater Jun 2014 #1
. jberryhill Jun 2014 #2
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