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[Adventurer]

Honeybee die-off threatens food supply By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
Wed May 2, 10:49 PM ET



BELTSVILLE, Md. - Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet.

Honeybees don't just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 of the tastiest flowering crops we have. Among them: apples, nuts, avocados, soybeans, asparagus, broccoli, celery, squash and cucumbers. And lots of the really sweet and tart stuff, too, including citrus fruit, peaches, kiwi, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, cantaloupe and other melons.

In fact, about one-third of the human diet comes from insect-pollinated plants, and the honeybee is responsible for 80 percent of that pollination, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Even cattle, which feed on alfalfa, depend on bees. So if the collapse worsens, we could end up being "stuck with grains and water," said Kevin Hackett, the national program leader for USDA's bee and pollination program.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070503/ap_on_sc/honeybee_die_off

[EFLtrainer]

Right now no intuitive alarm bells are going off re: the bees. However, should the problem persist and spread, it would only add to the Perfect Storm I've been warning about with

Peak Oil

Climate Change

Economic decline (debt, housing, oil, CC, etc.)

Middle East craziness.

Add the bees and a serious reduction in food supply to rapidly get everything seriously out of whack...

Just might be a nasty, nasty century.

[ddeubel]

I"d like to see more info. , global info. before coming to conclusions based on data in the U.S. Though we should be alarmed by that alone and start taking some measures to prevent agricultural "collapse".

I'm not fanatical about much in my life but since beginning to eat bee pollen about 5 years ago, I can't say enough about the stuff. This is what the bees collect and eat themselves and which enables them to work work work 24 hours a day. The pollen from flowers which is essentially "plant sperm". I take 2 tablespoons a day, in the morning. Regulates your metabolism and is the perfect way to lose weight properly. Also great for increasing red blood cell count, the skin too. In fact it is the only known food you could eat solely, your whole life without any problems. No other food has all the essential enzymes and vitamins/minerals.....

I hope the bees are only on vacation.

DD

[igotthisguitar]

Major looming food crisis.

QUI BONO? Follow the $$$.

Especially who steps forward to "remedy" the problem, offer their pre-formed "contingency plan" solution?

re: the Bees, why?

How about this: HAARP
It finally kicked into high gear just a few months ago ... hmmmmm ...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarp

[Gopher]

Well, then. The gang is all here.

Adventurer posts a story on the declining honeybee population. BLT promptly cites "peak oil" and Homo sapiens's pending demise on our planet, Ddeubel preaches on the virtues of consuming "plant sperm," and now Igotthisguitar adds a reference to an X-Files-like military-research program somewhere in Alaska.

[igotthisguitar]

[Gopher]

Actually, I do thank you for the ref, as I do for the earlier ref to Tenet's memoir controversy. Had never heard of HAARP before.

[shifter2009]

Will I finally get to live out all my Mad Max fantasies with all this going on?

[ddeubel]

[khyber]

Farmers are pretty ingenious; I really doubt this would go more than 2 years before they'd invent a machine that would aid in pollenating: I mean, realistically speaking, it's gonna happen.
They haven't done it yet because it's been completely useless.

[igotthisguitar]

Hmmmmm ...

No ORGANIC Bee Losses
2007 05 06

I am quite involved with many alternative agriculture groups, and I received this email from a trusted friend ... you might want to check it out for your news section ...



"Sharon Labchuk is a longtime environmental activist and part-time organic beekeeper from Prince Edward Island. She has twice run for a seat in Ottawa's House of Commons, making strong showings around 5% for Canada's fledgling Green Party. She is also leader of the provincial wing of her party. In a widely circulated email, she wrote:

I'm on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list. The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies.

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http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=974

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