Vanishing of the Bees - Beekeeper Leaks EPA Document

[dudefromtheearth]

Wow. What a shame. See this is one big reason bees have been dying! This must not go on. The government must stop using these pesticides!

[amontesanti9]

Whole foods has sold out to Monsanto so don't rely on Whole foods for ORGANIC anything any more. Also Organic honey is very rare indeed and very pricy if it is REAL ORGANIC. The best honey you can get is RAW Homey from your local Beekeeper. Also Honey can cure Diabetes and much more. Read the book "The Honey Revolution" Ron Fessenden MD, MPH.

[1984luftballons]

chlorides,.w/..chmtrls..uhm.

[koreeeyk]

If bees go extinct we'll be fine. An informed public should know that 99+% of species have gone extinct and new ones are constantly being discovered.

[cool555breeze]

@koreeeyk You are a complete idiot. Bees die, we starve...

[koreeeyk]

@cool555breeze WRONG bees are not the only insects that pollinate plants.

[woodsprout]

@koreeeyk ~You seem to be the kind of person that attempts to rebut people with barely relevant technicalities. How about enter the conversation with some concrete ideas?

[amontesanti9]

@koreeeyk 2/3 od everything we eat comes from Honey Bees and pollination. Albert Einstein said that id bees die off man is not far brhind. Have you heard of him???

[koreeeyk]

@amontesanti9 have you heard of snopes dot com? Go do some reading

[woodsprout]

@koreeeyk  Do you believe everything you read on Snopes?

[woodsprout]

@koreeeyk ~What makes you think that Colony Collapse is a natural extinction?

[koreeeyk]

@woodsprout The real question is whether or not they are wrong? Have you found the original source for the quote? Just because you keep repeating the lie doesn't make it true. Why would Einstein all of a sudden start making comments on nature when it wasn't his field of study? Maybe he was privately into nature but it doesn't seem strange to you? It doesn't matter if it is a natural extinction. Either way the bees may be gone if it continues.

[woodsprout]

@koreeeyk If you bring up Snopes.com, perhaps you should reference re: Einstein quotes. Other than Einstein, *amontesanti9* had mentioned a few other possible facts.

[cool555breeze]

Monsanto = SATAN!!

[marydunn41]

Guess why the EPA is allowing this to take place.....MONSANTO. They have developed a superbee and of course are in the process, or already have, patented it along with all of their other GMO seed products.

[Brigid336]

can I mirror this??? with your info included? the tears are streaming down my face.

[Natureboy1]

This is one of the most depressing things I've ever seen. These companies, with our government's blessing, are destroying the future of human beings on this planet for short term profit.  It's time to stop them.

[Brigid336]

@Natureboy1 I taked to a local bee keeper in Canada. The effects are felt here as well. Apparently there is much "imported" honey from China, chemically treated at the plant level, and there is documentation that the honey you buy in the store, IS NUTRITIONALLY useless, and full of the plant toxins, and the bees are dying.

[laurelsobol]

Honey bees are a wonder of the world and they must not die off!

[mobymagg]

Bees are needed for pollination of plants (food). So to assume bees are only for making honey and honey is sugar, is to be very, very uninformed!

[MTHKITEBOARDS]

Sad thing is, nothing will happen until the majority of people buy organic.

Its slowly happening you can see it in stores like whole foods and trader joes, these stores are packed.

[30105378]

Read Bayer's history. They were making poisons during the Nazi control of Germany. We do not need Bayer.



[MsH1h1h1h1]

honey is not healthy anyways. you should not eat sugar. this causes diabetes

[dawes777]

@MsH1h1h1h1 Normal honey is not real honey, it has a high pecentage of sugar added. Real unprocessed organic honey is a very healthy food, full of nutrients and trace elements. Do the research on it!

As for normal chemically processed while sugar, it is harmful. Synthetic sweeteners are even more harmful, being high toxins causing illness and sudden death.

Better to use natural sweeteners, such as stevia. Do the research on it.

[MsH1h1h1h1]

@dawes777 I am not going to do any research. sugar is sugar. it is a molecule. ok maybe in honey or maple sirup there is other great stuff. but damn this is pure sugar!

[Only1ofusere]

@MsH1h1h1h1 Honey is not sugar. Honey does not contain sucrose.

Honey contains fructose and glucose it does not cause diabetes, no matter what your doctor may tell you.

[Midniteluvr1]

@MsH1h1h1h1 - That's a ridiculous statement!

[FruitTrees4Life]

Very chilling, But not surprising.

[Amphidory]

a pox on both the EPA and Bayer, we should use the heads of both organizations as a replacement for lab animals.

[RaceAcer60]

This Gentleman is RIGHT ON!,he is Exactly Right,PPL had better wake up! and realize what is going on,i've been saying for years that it was Monsanto and Bayer Crop Science BUT NOOOOOOOOOOO BODY would listen to me,guess they will when they begin starving To Death!.France Banned Neonicotinoids years ago,and the funniest thing occured after that,you guessed it,the bee Population began Increasing again,go figure,it doesn't take a Brain Surgeon to figure it out,it really doesn't!.

[memama2]

The EPA needs to be worried about this problem! Instead of the idiocy of the over regulations on land & what people are doing with their "sheds" being a foot to close to a puddle of water. You can be a pure moron & work there. With 3 guys from different offices having to LOOK over lone tree you need to remove for safety reasons.YET Killer chemicals? EPA says = who cares that's too much work to look at.

[zlowtek]

After looking at history and all the ways the "Authority" lied to us I'm not surprised. I live in Seattle and have noticed a DRAMATIC decline of blackberry bushes where I live which are pollinated by bees

[memama2]

zlowtek - what do you think of YouTube video: ... Crime Inc. Obama, Joel Rogers & Van Jones in Collusion, Knowledge Of The Lie

[zlowtek]

@memama2 I think we're dealing with some real racketeering, "black-handing", slick tongued gangsters in charge of things :) "Oh yeah the gas you're exhaling is destroying our environment so let us kill you all and establish a one world government"

[memama2]

zlowtek - it's kinda like all the plastic covering everything. And holding our water & food products. The stuff is so unsafe & now it is in our kids & houses. It is even in our hospitals. And not even safe for infants to have the tubing with chemicals leaching the plastic lines products into them when they are preemies. YET no one is supposed to be asked about this most basic health issue. I try to buy what I can in glass bottles now. I am not a "eco freak" but read some studies that were = yuk

[memama2]

zlowtek = if we had a couple rational minded people in charge that would be making responsible decisions. With some actual facts that we could access & read. And send comments to. Or have town hall meetings that anyone could attend. With unfiltered questions being asked. We might get somewhere. Right now we have over regulation or products that show harm but no one cares until we have zero bees. I went out to my fruit trees today & live on a mass ravine with farms below & saw no bees = scary

[snowwolfsabertooth]

I hope they ban those pesticide, because bees are REALLY REALLY important to everyone. I feel like EPA really isn't working well. Sometimes it seems they are the champion of the environment, but most of the time they just sit there and make no difference.

[snowwolfsabertooth]

I hope they ban those pesticide, because bees are REALLY REALLY important to everyone. I feel like EPA really isn't working well. Sometimes it seems they are the champion of the environment, but most of the time they just sit there and make no difference.

[wonderfulfeelingtv]

damn, i wish i have the guilty of all this in front of me ...im so full of ANGRY when i see such stories ... ''le-as rupe gatu' fara nici-o mila'' !

[AztecMermaid13]

Thank you for bringing this to our attention Tom, in such a carefully researched and factual way.

[MorninGloryButtercup]

Thanks for this clearly presented and well-documented information. I will share your great links at Pesticides Bug Me

[studiosinger]

So sad our government is nothing but a servant of corrupt corporations now working against the interests of the people.

[TheGoodVillager]

Thank you. Please share this video. As the fellow said, the best way we can deal with this as a public at this point is to be informed and educated about the issues. You can't fight something like this without knowledge.

[otacon451]

soundtrack is Stars Of The Lid, right?

[maitreyananda62]

thank you for your work on behalf of all of us...

[fuhoney]

Wake Up!!!! It's time to destroy Monsanto!!!!

[Imker53117]

Wäre Umweltvergiftung ein Verbrechen wie Völkermord, dann stünde Bayer in Den Haag vor Gericht.

[Fireinthedawn]

I don't know wether to be horrifed or hopeful at the dying of the bees, on one hand it threatens the food supply, on the other hand it makes our choices starkly clear: evolve or go extinct. I really hope we go for evolve.

[Fireinthedawn]

as always expect the republicans to filibuster any honey bee reform.

[tradernorton05]

As a chemical-free beekeeper, I sincerely believe this video is spot-on correct.

These chemicals combined with the practices of poor commercial beekeeping are slowly killing the honeybee.

The commercial guys dont give a damn about the environment or their bees. They just want to make that extra dollar.

[CarriageHouseFarm]

If this is all the case, why is it that we are not seeing massive die offs in the Canadian Rapeseed farms? Just curious. Those are massive neonic plots and include thousands of acres of Monsanto rapeseed plots.

As a beekeeper and farmer...an organic and conventional farmer that uses ZERO pesticides (conventional or organic)...I am worried that if you well meaning types try to get a single application pesticide banned that farmers will simply go back to using the dirtier ones that were UGLY.

[acafellablue]

Oh my God what have we done. This is genocidal suicide. Remember your mother telling you about the birds and the Bees? Well we need to educate the ones that need educating. Tell your friends, then tell them to tell their friends. We need help!

[Galv140577]

" avaaz.org/en/save_the_bees " google it, sign the petition !!!

[MoFinney]

Wow eye opening and considering the consequences terrifying!

[marcdefaoite]

This is VERY important

[svantiii]

Anyone knows how it's like in Europe?

[marcdefaoite]

@svantiii "Clothianidin is being studied regarding mass dieoffs of honeybees in some parts of Europe. Use of clothianidin was prohibited by the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety[5] on May 15, 2008 until new studies can prove the innocuousness of the product.[6] Other countries banning clothianidin include France, Italy and Slovenia." from Wikipedia

[svantiii]

@marcdefaoite thank you!

[maksphoto78]

@svantiii Bees are becoming extinct in the UK.

[svantiii]

@maksphoto78 I hope more UK people are aware of that and will force MPs to pass laws that would ban bee threatening pesticides.

I believe the general truthful slogan which should be made more public is quite simple: What is not good for the bees is also not good for the people...

[MickyStarr]

Thank you for your video. I've now signed the petition at Avaaz.org

[CarajilloDulce]

Bees are wonderful. Nature is beautiful. Monsanto and their like are money grabbing scum.

[pfoley33]

I think that things like this illustrate just how corrupt or inadequate a lot of the large organisations who are supposed to protect us are - and these will of course be the same people who appear on tv later looking shocked when the last bee dies.

[EddieSpaghetti0070]

Thanks what about GMO? bugs won't eat the stuff, so is the pollen poison for bees too?

[aotearoastyle]

Its shocking to show that the corrupt and rich just dont give a damn about our ecology and the world we live in !

[shirleybluesky]

@aotearoastyle, mostly it is the guy that just wants to keep his job. The folks that work for these companies need to be retrained to do something that benefits our environment.

[studiosinger]

@aotearoastyle - That's right and they want to kill off masses of people to boot.