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Related: About this forumMonsanto pushes farmers to grow bee-killing soybeans
Monsanto pushes farmers to grow bee-killing soybeans
November 20, 2014
Despite an ever-growing sales volume year after year, Monsanto's genetically-modified (GM) soybeans aren't helping farmers produce greater yields, nor are they helping the planet. The transgenic crop, which is heavily doused in neonicotinoid pesticides, is a leading cause of the bee death phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD), which means it is also a significant threat to the entire food supply.
Without bees, 80 percent of all flowering plants and more than 75 percent of all the fruits, nuts, and vegetables grown for human consumption would cease to exist. Honeybees are a primary pollinator, as it turns out and without them, we would all likely starve. But Big Biotech is little concerned about any of this, pursuing only greater profits at the expense of environmental and human health.
Though neonicotinoids have been shown to harm bees, those that manufacture them, mainly Bayer, Dow Chemical, and Syngenta, continue to produce them and Monsanto continues to sell the seeds that require them in order to grow. This, in spite of the fact that GM soybeans are more expensive than natural seeds while providing no increase in yields....
http://www.naturalnews.com/047723_Monsanto_soybeans_neonicotinoid_pesticides_colony_collapse.html
November 20, 2014
Despite an ever-growing sales volume year after year, Monsanto's genetically-modified (GM) soybeans aren't helping farmers produce greater yields, nor are they helping the planet. The transgenic crop, which is heavily doused in neonicotinoid pesticides, is a leading cause of the bee death phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD), which means it is also a significant threat to the entire food supply.
Without bees, 80 percent of all flowering plants and more than 75 percent of all the fruits, nuts, and vegetables grown for human consumption would cease to exist. Honeybees are a primary pollinator, as it turns out and without them, we would all likely starve. But Big Biotech is little concerned about any of this, pursuing only greater profits at the expense of environmental and human health.
Though neonicotinoids have been shown to harm bees, those that manufacture them, mainly Bayer, Dow Chemical, and Syngenta, continue to produce them and Monsanto continues to sell the seeds that require them in order to grow. This, in spite of the fact that GM soybeans are more expensive than natural seeds while providing no increase in yields....
http://www.naturalnews.com/047723_Monsanto_soybeans_neonicotinoid_pesticides_colony_collapse.html
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Monsanto pushes farmers to grow bee-killing soybeans (Original Post)
RiverLover
Nov 2014
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PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)1. We don't need no bees because they interfere with PROFITS!
randr
(12,414 posts)2. With my tin-foil hat on
Would Monsanto deliberately wipe out bees so they could sell a proprietary pollinator?
Given the track record of this company I put nothing out of the question.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)3. Ha! Could bee!! ~nt
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)4. oh help, please
Can we respond to this? Anyone know how to push back?
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)5. NOT TO WORRY.. they'll come out with a medicine that will counteract the neonicitinoids in the Bees.
All you have to do is catch them and give them a shot with a teenie tiny syringe. Yeah, that'l work. Oh, I forgot the price will somewhere north of a small fortune for a one year supply.