A great article about the ongoing bee issue...
http://www.naturalnews.com/025287.html
"As the disappearance of honeybees continues, researchers are trying desperately to discover the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). General consensus at this point is that there is more than once cause and the latest culprit may be genetically modified crops. This is one area of research being neglected as mainstream scientists insist GM crops are safe."
But is bT GMO corn really safe?
"Bees forage heavily on corn flowers to obtain pollen for the rearing of young bees. These pollen grains also contain the Bt genes of the parent plant, because they are present in the cells from which pollen forms. Mr. McDonald believes it may be possible that while Cry1Ab has no direct lethal effect on young bees, there may be some sub-lethal effect, such as immune suppression, acting as a slow killer."
Today Obama made a comment about us feeding the world. Given his choice of Secretary of Agriculture and his comments on our technology I have little hope that this means little more then spreading our GMO technology further... Hopefully we will do no more harm to world food systems then we have already done! And boy, have we done a lot already...
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