I'll tell you, if I were a farmer threatened by this GMO crap, I would be salting their fields.

I think they've found their safe haven and are using it. On the other hand, nobody else has much for them to gather pollen from in the first place - no clover, no dandylions, no flowers, no vegetables, just homogeneous and regularly groomed lawns with weekly applications of lime and poison.

all the gas it takes to cut it/ bring the trucks to the site to cut it. The repercussions of our superficial values are snowballing.

We have bluebirds and others that hunt in our yard. We've got rabbits EVERY-FUCKING-WHERE in our yard. We had to train the dogs to ONLY chase the rabbits if they were in or very close to the garden. Otherwise the things would be running all day.

So the poison trucks show up regularly at the other houses. They have to put up little warning flags because the shit is so toxic. The abundance of nitrogen mixed in with the poison forces the neighbors to mow weekly or more often. Come August, all of the lawns are brown except for ours. The poison trucks still show up and plaster the other yards with death and nitrogen. The lawns turn green for a few hours and then go dormant again. Our yard is about the same color all year round, well, except for the flowers that show up throughout the summer.

They also mow too close to the ground. There's no strength in that grass. There's a book called something about "The Lawn Weenies" that sums it up perfectly. We are surrounded by lawn weenies, but nobody objects to free asparagus and other fresh veggies and herbs. We're the ones who have them. We're the ones with the bees. The bees don't bother anyone.

When I was a kid, every yard had clover and dandylions and every yard was covered in bees. Walking barefoot was dangerous. Now we announce the presence of one so we can carefully avoid disturbing it. With all of our various plants, I would say we easily have fifty or more species of bees ranging from fruit-fly sized to monster bumbles. They leave us alone. We leave them alone. Our yard is their sanctuary.

many of my friends take that approach. I can't wait to have my own place again so I can have a proper garden. Its actually one of the main factors calling me back to Florida. -Though many here (MD) do very well.

(Didn't mean to imply there was anything wrong with your using a mower. It was more a comment about our decisions in general)

with every kind of poison imaginable. At night in the Summer, 100's of crickets can be heard chirping. Walk next door in either direction and not one insect sound.

have lived off of the wild-lettuce in my backyard and in the last couple of years, foxes, who I think follow the creeks, like the one across the street, through suburban subdivisions, have discovered that under my low deck provides the perfect place for their birthing den.

between the ages of 4 and 7. Our dogs live to be in their teens, but we have never put poison on our lawn to make it grow or kill the weeds. Nonsense, to do that.

Bees rear their young on pollen and corn pollen is a particular favorite. Once the brood are fed the pollen, a stress is introduced. I'm sure some of the brood will succumb even if the Bt is small doses in pollen but you cannot escape that added stress.

When you add even more stress such as varoa mites, tracheal mites, and Nosema the bees become susceptible to viruses.

When a bee gets sick form a virus, instinctively the bee leaves the hive and does not return to keep the virus from spreading.

Hence, colony collapse disorder where the bees are gone but there are not bodies

It shows that when it comes down to it
the FDA and US has been shoving the GM Modified down everyones throats
and now has shown to kill the bees ...heading them to extinction

The US is not the Best or the Brightest here
In fact the US is a corporate evildoer and supporter of Bee killing

God Bless Poland
I believe this may be another reason the European Union will be dismantled gladly by the populace
It is all about the Bees

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Terrific updates at http://fooddemocracynow.org/ on the LABEL GMOs Campaign! It's up to the public, think Howard Zinn. I personally believe our president needs an assist (from A POWER GOVERNMENTS CANNOT SUPPRESS).

Lumpy Thomas.

K & R