Loss of Bees Threatens Ice Cream

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publickprofile1 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:51:13 GMT

Yes, it is good to have this forum to discuss the issues, in hopes of enlightening one another, but does anyone truly believe that these discussions are making headway in stopping the control freaks? Our "good shepherds" are put out there in prominent positions on the internet, putting on a good show, but does anyone truly believe that the global elite is leaving anything to chance? No doubt they are still controlling all sides of an issue just as they always have. Picture the pyramid, the structure of our whole system: whoever is sitting at the top can see and control all four sides, where we who are at the bottom can only see the side that we are on. What stands out most on Mercola is what isn't said. He should be pointing the finger loud and hard at the perpetrators, but he's only discussing the effects, not the cause, like the gargoyle carvings on the outside of churches, scaring us right inside to buy the products.

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CherieCherie — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:39:40 GMT

Hi from Australia, update to your article on bee loss.

On 60 Minutes on May 11, 2008 on Australian television we are told that "right now, a tiny parasite is threatening to wipe out our bees. It's already destroyed bee populations around the world. But, all is not lost. You see, there's one man who's fighting back. A dedicated scientist Dr Denis Anderson. As a bee pathologist, Denis Anderson warns these bees face a catastrophic threat from a nasty tick-like parasite called 'Varroa Destructor' Varroa has spread insidiously into every major country except Australia. Now it is on our doorstep in New Zealand and the great fear is it is only a matter of time before we are invaded.

The thinking goes if all the bees were to disappear it would only take five years before we would all starve.

If we didn't have bees the world would be in serious trouble. Our crop yields would drop away and there would be mass starvation everywhere. We just can't do without bees.

The Varroa parasite jumps onto bees, hitching a ride into the hive. Once in the hive, the mites drop into the cells to breed and feed on the baby bees, slowly weakening and killing the entire colony.

Bees are a part of the human race surviving. People just don't realise how much, how important they are for the pollination industry which we have to have.

Dr Denis Anderson is the one man standing between Varroa and our bees. Here in his CSIRO lab in Canberra he is working on gene technology which he hopes will turn off the signal that tells the mites to breed when they are in the bee hive. So even if the parasites make it to Australia, they're doomed. He is horribly under-funded and success is at least five years away but we can't afford for Denis not to get it right. Nor can the bees.

Dr Denis Anderson is the one man standing between Varroa and our bees.'

This is an extract from 60 minutes, not my words, thank you. Cherie

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LadyPam — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:27:19 GMT

I used to buy Oxfam's own brand of rainforest honey from wild bees (one of their initiatives for encouraging small businesses that have an interest in preserving the rainforests). It had an unusual and strong flavour and aroma. Sadly, it disappeared off the shelves and, when I asked why, it was because the bees were wild and therefore the food safety could not be adequately controlled/monitored!!

Behold the stench of big money stamping out the little guys.

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Eva Lahonen — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:34:15 GMT

I feel sorry for the Americans for they are the guiney pigs of GM food.

I vote with my wallet, but in America how can you really have guarantees that the products do not contain GMO. Carry on the good work, hopefully more and more people will read your articles! I do not buy any American products anymore. All food must be organic, the next step is organially products clothing.

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Wildeblueberrie_203 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:27:10 GMT

Freezeframe - I've heard the best organic honey will be pale (almost white) in colour and will solidify quickly into more of a solid honey. Yet the locally made honey here on Vancouver Island seems to be liquid and golden. Any comments?

I can vouch for insect repellents which contain catnip oil - my daughter spent 6 months in Africa and her friends were always borrowing her natural repellent as it worked better than all their DEET products. Also, it smelled nice. :)

Regarding PLU codes for fruits and veggies: I know that four digit PLUs signify conventionally grown produce, five digit PLUs starting with '8' identify genetically modified produce, and codes starting with '9' are organic. (As a memory tool, I developed a ditty - "9 is Fine!") But recently in Costco I've seen produce with five digit codes starting with either '4' or '7'. Does anyone know what that means?

Thanks to whomever posted the link to eatwild.com - I never knew there were so many local farms producing grass fed meats and poultry in my area! Usually we don't get much info for Canada ... this site has info for both USA and Canada.

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jasannawalt — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:12:58 GMT

As a holistic bee keeper and breeder for 56 years, I learned right from the begining you must work with wild swarms in order to keep pathogens away from them. The bees today for the most part are what I call "med" bees. (medicated) I believe this is the main reason for the collapse disorder. I do not use any kind of chemicals on my bees to keep the pathogens away and my bees thrive here in San Diego. I kept bees under high tension power lines for decades with no adverse affect. When I called UC Davis and told them about my program they said they were not interested. The bees here in San Diego are so numerous that the cities have purchased bee swarm extermination equipment to kill them.

I am upset with the fact that unscrupulous beekeepers use chemicals on their bees during the honey flows and this I am afraid permeates the honey that people buy in stores. Pure honey crystalizes, and is antiseptic.

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cooking teacher — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:25:26 GMT

Has anyone started a "petition" that your subscribers can sign so that needed changes can be made through creating a bill to protect "honey bees" as "endangered"?

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Betty Violet — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:09:11 GMT

Although people have looked at me as though I am odd, I recently made the decision to become a vegan and cut honey out of my diet as well. This information makes me feel better about my decision. I would never tell anyone they should cut all honey out of their diet, but maybe consuming less would be helpful.

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diabloceto — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:55:56 GMT

CCD is caused by man tampering with the bee like we tamper with everything else. We have artifically increased the size of the bee's cell which makes a bigger bee and also let's pests survive that could not survive in a small cell enviroment. If you ever have the chance to find a feral bee hive if you measure you will see that their cells in the comb are 4.9mm across as opposed to the 5.4mm that is used in bee keeping today.

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Beccadog — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:05:33 GMT

Brevard County Florida sprayed from helicopters for mosquitoes and Dr. Wayne Sinclair (M.D.) uncovered what was sprayed (Dibrom) and what insecticides are in those chemical sprays. Dichlorvos (also known as DDVP) was found as an ingredient in their primary mosquito control Dibrom. Both DDVP and Dibrom are known to be toxic to bees and birds, as well as humans. The smaller the animal, the faster the death!

More information at: www.chem-tox.com/.../main.htm

And extoxnet.orst.edu/.../dichlorv.htm

According to the Centers for Disease Control: “Less than one percent of those infected with WNv will develop severe illness.

A 2000 analysis of the West Nile outbreak published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that risk for severe illness was most closely correlated with increasing age. In the U.S., people older than 50 years and those with weakened immune systems have the highest risk of severe encephalitis.

Brian Rogers, D.O., MPH, City of Fort Worth Health Authority states "The risk of becoming seriously ill and dying from West Nile is extremely minimal. Fewer than 1 percent of mosquitoes in areas where the virus has been found actually carry the virus.”

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services stated, "Contrary to media descriptions of 'the deadly West Nile virus,' [it] is rarely fatal in humans. Less than one percent of people who acquire the disease will experience severe illness. Within this small proportion, the fatality rate is about 3-15%."

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services states, "Contrary to media descriptions of 'the deadly West Nile virus,' [it] is rarely fatal in humans. Less than one percent of people who acquire the disease will experience severe illness. Within this small proportion, the fatality rate is about 3-15%."

Consider hand pollinating every flower of every food crop because insecticides are killing nature's pollinators, including the bees, due to fear promoted by the Bush allies in the pesticide industry.

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catwoman4 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:05:54 GMT

I live in Northern Pennsylvania, and don't belive in using pesticides or fertilizer.

My yard is probably the bane of the neighborhood, because I love dandelions as well as the clover and creeping jack that has taken root where there was once only boring grass.

As a result, we have tons of honeybees and butterflies all over our yard..which is more than an acre....as well as birds which find nice juicy worms and insects in our yard, as opposed to some of our neighbors which get their yards sprayed by the "poison man" monthly...and in whose yards nothing lives...except grass.

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ellie may — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:30:38 GMT

Could the loss of bees be related to the daily spraying of the air by government with "Chemtrails". Some research sites on Chemtrails, say this is the reason. For those who don't know what Chemtrails are, they need to search the term and read independent research sites (Not gov't sites) There's too many sites to list all here. www.educate-yourself.org/ct www.carnicom.com/conright.htm "Aerosol Operation Crimes & Cover-up" www.carnicom/conleft.htm www.rgv.no Scroll to "Aerosol Crimes" see video. Check Search Engines: www.altavista.com & www.dogpile.com type Chemtrails in search box and click video. You will get 20 videos on one site & 60 on the other. View the information & check the links given on all these sites. You will see how this spraying is affecting our health & the planet. The fallout from these chemicals are doing damage to our immune system, etc. View videos and infor.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvioxjul6co&feature=related www.drewswebsite.com click on chemtrails.

Check the sky daily & you will see the planes spraying. Take pictures. These are NOT contrails left by jets flying to vacations. See the criss-cross patterns and the feathering out of the sprayed clouds that stay in the air for hours (contrails last about 1 minute). We are breathing this in, so are the bees. Media will not discuss this. The very few who make a remark, give the standard gov't BS. Govt & media owned by big corporations so don't expect any truth out of them regarding our health or anything that might hurt the profits of the corporations. For all we know, this spraying could be financed by big business for whatever reasons, but it will be for profits, not for people. People need to search the internet for health infor. and the news. Newspapers & TV will not tell you anything, their advertisers are the big corporations that control what news you are allowed to see or read about !!!!!!!

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flbooks7 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:14:57 GMT

If honeybees were not native to America, but imported from Europe....what were the pollinators before the honeybees arrived? Just curious because I read an article recently about plants, insects, animals that weren't native to America.

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FloridaDon — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:29:22 GMT

Natural or wild honey bees, in the Eastern US, nest in holes in trees in the forest or in trees along a fence line, in swamps, etc. Sometimes in rocks with small caves in them. In the walls of houses or even in old autos. In a good location with protection from the weather and food sources within 3 miles, they may stay in that one location for years. They are a blacker bee than the domestic bee. The comb that is several years old is black from use and the older honey is darker than the new honey. They are also, usually, more angry than domestic bees if you distrube them.

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Gardenbuff — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:57:29 GMT

I still see plenty of bees in our yard...Maybe the sciencists should come to Ramona,CA & study

our bees..My goji berry bushes are loaded with bees all day..I have to be careful picking the berries

because I'm alergic to the bees..Our eucalyptus trees hummmmm,so loud with the bees going at the

flowers..And those bumble bees are another story..I go out to look at my pomegranate tree's blooms

and they chase me back into the house...