Colony Collapse Disorder DEBUNKED: PESTICIDES CAUSING HONEYBEE DEATHS***

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Colony Collapse Disorder DEBUNKED: PESTICIDES CAUSING HONEYBEE DEATHS***

http://www.naturalnews.com/023679.html  

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 by: Heidi Stevenson

 

The great mystery of bee deaths has been solved. Colony Collapse Disorder is

poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured

by Bayer, has been clearly linked to die offs in Germany and France.

 

Although the bee die offs that have occurred recently are more severe, there

have been many in the past from the same and similar products. In North Dakota,

a lawsuit is pending against Bayer for the loss of their bees in

1995, the result of spraying rapeseed with Imidacloprid. In 1999, the same

product was banned in France for use as a seed dressing for sunflowers when they

lost one-third of their hives after widespread spraying. In 2004, it was banned

for use on corn. Recently, France refused to approve Bayer's request to sell

Clothianidin.

 

Clothianidin and Imidacloprid are both members of a class of pesticides called

neonicotinoids. They are well known as insect neurotoxins, especially with

regard to bees. The spokesperson for the Coalition Against Bayer Dangers, based

in Germany, stated, " We have been pointing out the risks of neonicotinoids for

almost 10 years now. This proves without a doubt that the chemicals can come

into contact with bees and kill them. These pesticides shouldn't be on the

market. "

 

Not a Surprise

 

That neonicotinoids are potent neurotoxins, especially in insects, is

unsurprising. They were developed for precisely that purpose. Bayer says that

their use is safe for bees, when used according to instructions. This involves

using a glue that keeps the pesticides stuck to the seeds on which they're used.

 

There are many problems with this. Agribusiness corporations are known to evade

anything that costs them money. The glue costs money. The equipment and

personnel required to apply it costs money. More careful pesticide application

to try to keep it from becoming airborne costs money. Obviously, both

unscrupulous agribusiness farmers and unknowing small farmers -- not to mention

home gardeners -- will, at least occasionally, not use the glue.

 

Even then, it's impossible to believe that a fair amount of these pesticides

won't become airborne. Further, their residue will poison the soil. It will be

passed on into foods, which means that insects will come into contact with it

there.

 

Pharmaceutical Connection

 

Isn't it interesting that a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, Bayer, also makes

a product that is a poison by design? Bayer is not an exception. Many, if not

most, do business in both arenas. That alone should give pause for thought.

 

Here's a list of corporations -- not expected to be complete -- that profit in

both pharmaceuticals and pesticides:

 

* American Home Products

 

* AMVAC

 

* Astra Zeneca

 

* Aventis

 

* BASF

 

* Bayer

 

* Dow Chemical

 

* Dupont Chemical

 

* Merck

 

* Monsanto

 

* Novartis

 

* Pharmacia

 

Is it an accident that most of Big Pharma also manufactures pesticides? Is there

a connection between the two types of products? Do the pharmaceutical arms of

these corporations profit on the illness caused by the pesticide arms? These

questions are rhetorical. We'll let the reader decide.

 

Mythical Disease

 

Mike Adams has humorously shown with his Disease-Mongering Engine

((http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-mong...), which creates new diseases at the

push of a mouse button, how easily phony diseases can be created to sell

pharmaceuticals and fatten the pocketbooks of the medical world. The same

technique has been used to cloak massive bee die-offs with an air of mystery.

 

Colony Collapse Disorder is a false name that serves to mislead the public into

believing that there's a new, mystery disorder, probably something very complex,

that needs tons of money to be thrown at it so that every possible angle can be

studied. The reason is simple. By misdirecting the public, and apparently many

professionals too, the real reason for bee die-offs is obscu red.

 

This is very much like the misleading pseudoscience that supposedly debunks

global climate change by giving a false impression that there is no consensus

among scientists. By stirring pesticides into a mix of other supposedly possible

causes, such as bacterial infections, fungal infections, and environmental

stress, a false controversy is created. That results in precious time being

wasted, while we really do move into a world without bees. At the same time,

money is being thrown at scientists, who should know better, but being just as

human as the rest of us, they're tempted.

 

Eventually, the real cause starts to become obvious, as is happening now in bee

die-offs. However, the guilty party, the one making obscene profits by selling

neurotoxic poisons that destroy the earth, launches a campaign of disingenuous

lies, misdirection, and lawsuits to continue to sell their contaminants as long

as possible.

 

Meanwhile, we're being told that we must prepare to live in a world without

bees, as if it's inevitable. All because of Colony Collapse Disorder, a cleverly

marketed nonexistent disease. We live in fear of the implications of no bees,

when the real threat is poisons manufactured for the sole benefit of obscene

profits.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

This sounds like a plausible cause. Is Clothianidin used in all

places in the US where bees are dying?

 

GB

 

, Shan

<bestsurprise2002 wrote:

>

> Colony Collapse Disorder DEBUNKED: PESTICIDES CAUSING HONEYBEE

DEATHS***

> http://www.naturalnews.com/023679.html  

> Tuesday, July 22, 2008 by: Heidi Stevenson

>

> The great mystery of bee deaths has been solved. Colony Collapse

Disorder is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a

pesticide manufactured by Bayer, has been clearly linked to die offs

in Germany and France.

>  

> Although the bee die offs that have occurred recently are more

severe, there have been many in the past from the same and similar

products. In North Dakota, a lawsuit is pending against Bayer for the

loss of their bees in

> 1995, the result of spraying rapeseed with Imidacloprid. In 1999,

the same product was banned in France for use as a seed dressing for

sunflowers when they lost one-third of their hives after widespread

spraying. In 2004, it was banned for use on corn. Recently, France

refused to approve Bayer's request to sell Clothianidin.

>  

> Clothianidin and Imidacloprid are both members of a class of

pesticides called neonicotinoids. They are well known as insect

neurotoxins, especially with regard to bees. The spokesperson for the

Coalition Against Bayer Dangers, based in Germany, stated, " We have

been pointing out the risks of neonicotinoids for almost 10 years now.

This proves without a doubt that the chemicals can come into contact

with bees and kill them. These pesticides shouldn't be on the market. "

>  

> Not a Surprise