But it never occurred to me that it was intentional. They just don't give a damn.

Pollination is needed for so many crops, so how is it that Monsanto's chemicals can take the role of the bees in pollination??

The answer is they can't.
Nothing can and that's just another damn good reason why Monsanto is one of the Most Dangerous Companies in the World.

And their lobbyists are feeding kickbacks and campaign contributions to politicians as we type.

So they have a monopoly on the portable bee trucking operations.

Now we get to suffer the consequences for corporate greed.

How dare you question Monsanto's spi--er, "research" -- about how good its products are for all of us!

Now if you excuse me, I need to get back to my climate-change-denying anti-vaxing moon-landing-was-a-hoax blog....

and blind studied!!! by monsanto then approved by the gov't... which is run by monsanto.
So everyone else is just plain stupid!!! those chemicals are safe they can't be killing bees.

And are so angry. You can not function because you let your emotions run away with you. Your just upset because of all those poor little dead bees. You know Monsanto is just a Mom and Pop business that hires brave scientists to pump out GMOs, pesticides and Round Up.

Now, just ignore common sense and your lying eyes and quit acting like a know it all.

Thanks Monsanto and your ilk of corporations.

Misinformation shill.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141074772

On a brighter note, our backyard is currently spouting or regrowing a whole armada of pesticide and herbicide free cascading flowering native and non-native plants. Bees, butterflies and hummingbirds will directly benefit.

We planned it that way.

Solved. The dieoff is due to Bayer's and Monsanto's poisons.

They promise!

I went to Home Depot last weekend to check out the plants and was INFURIATED to see that they are now treating ornamentals with neonicotinoids!!!! Freaking azaleas of all things. No, no. Bees dont LOVE azaleas or anything. I almost lost my shit. Had to leave the store. WTF?

When the hell are people going to wake up?!

A few years ago. They sell their plants throuh Mal-Wart, Lowes and other corporate retail stores. When the agriculture dept. pointed it out to the stores, they marked them down 50%. Now just about everyone in the US gets the tomato blight. Thanks Bonnie. Did you know the tomato blight is the same blight that caused the potato famine in Ireland.

Why the HELL were they allowed to continue selling them at all?! Is nothing sacred where it comes to food / plants anymore?

Makes my blood boil.

Western side of the Rockies. About 75 feet under my driveway. And the beekeepers around here are some of the best.

It's astounding to watch people around us do their part to rid us of both of those. As if we can keep living after...

After the big corporations are done stealing *your* water, they'll step right in to sell you water the they stole from somewhere else. And Monsanto will be our best friends when we have to rely on them for our food! What could possibly go wrong?

It is no exaggeration to claim that the 'diabetes epidemic' has become a 'runaway train' causing huge health and economic consequences, especially in the developing nations. Traditionally, the risk factors for diabetes have largely focused on genetics and lifestyle. Great emphasis is placed on lifestyle measures and finding novel pharmacological treatment options to combat diabetes, but there is increasing evidence linking environmental pollutants, especially pesticides, to the development of insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes. Pesticide use has increased dramatically worldwide and the effects of pesticides on glucose metabolism are too significant for a possible diabetogenic link to be dismissed.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23587011


Pesticides linked to Type 2 Diabetes

In a groundbreaking study, environmental-health scientists have discovered a link between type 2 diabetes and pesticides - a result that could explain the significant increase in the health condition in the last few years.

The study was conducted by a group of researchers from the University of Granada in Spain and is published in the journal Environmental Research.

The investigators found people with higher concentrations of DDE (from the pesticide DDT), are four times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

Additionally, exposure to a chemical found in the common pesticide Lindano also increases the risk of developing diabetes.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/257045.php

Native bees and other pollinators are seeing a sharp decline as well.

The bees are dying, and we/and everything else are dying along with them.
It's funny though how some are accepting Monsanto poisoning us with a smile on their face. I guess the paycheck is more important to them than people, animals and plants dying off. An ironic world we live in.