Comments on: Ecocide’s Bitter Harvest: English Honey Will Run Out By Christmas http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:01:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mason http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1689456 Mason Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:48:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1689456 <p>I live in western Kentucky, which produces (used to produce) lots of honey. I listened to a locally produced story about the problem on NPR in which the beekeepers described how honey bees are dying off. Something has affected their memory and/or navigational system because they have lost their ability to find their way back to their hives. They finally collapse due to physical exhaustion and fall to the ground where they expire or become food for predators. Meanwhile, the hives turn into empty husks with just the queen and a few worker bees who eventually starve to death. It’s really sad and no one has identified the cause, let alone a cure. There is a real possibility that honey bees may become extinct, unless someone figures out a solution soon.</p> I live in western Kentucky, which produces (used to produce) lots of honey. I listened to a locally produced story about the problem on NPR in which the beekeepers described how honey bees are dying off. Something has affected their memory and/or navigational system because they have lost their ability to find their way back to their hives. They finally collapse due to physical exhaustion and fall to the ground where they expire or become food for predators. Meanwhile, the hives turn into empty husks with just the queen and a few worker bees who eventually starve to death. It’s really sad and no one has identified the cause, let alone a cure. There is a real possibility that honey bees may become extinct, unless someone figures out a solution soon.

]]> By: redX http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1689297 redX Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:28:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1689297 <p>Or the vast travel increases their exposure to other factor beyond stress (infection), in this case of course the stress is not going to help fighting off what they are exposed to.</p> Or the vast travel increases their exposure to other factor beyond stress (infection), in this case of course the stress is not going to help fighting off what they are exposed to.

]]> By: redX http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1689292 redX Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:25:16 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1689292 <p>It pays to use science before its to late. See if people take things seriously and investigate they can actually figure things out.</p> <p>Scientists are motivated by “how knows?” as opposed to many who just shrug.</p> It pays to use science before its to late. See if people take things seriously and investigate they can actually figure things out.

Scientists are motivated by “how knows?” as opposed to many who just shrug.

]]> By: redX http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1689288 redX Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:23:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1689288 <p>We are due, its been 65million years. But then…maybe the world is only 6000 years old? Its so hard to tell.</p> <p>Hope we can pull out of this, if it goes on the bad side (Ex negative feedback loop) we could even have a choice of our destruction - destroy the plant by taking a dump on it, or nuke eachother on the way down…maybe a bit of both.</p> <p>My niece has decided to forgo being a livestock vet to become a bee keeper (wifery?).</p> <p>Pets are great, but for God sake many pets eat better than living (and certainly dying) people.</p> We are due, its been 65million years. But then…maybe the world is only 6000 years old? Its so hard to tell.

Hope we can pull out of this, if it goes on the bad side (Ex negative feedback loop) we could even have a choice of our destruction – destroy the plant by taking a dump on it, or nuke eachother on the way down…maybe a bit of both.

My niece has decided to forgo being a livestock vet to become a bee keeper (wifery?).

Pets are great, but for God sake many pets eat better than living (and certainly dying) people.

]]> By: MDMD http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1689096 MDMD Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:19:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1689096 <p>The bees where I grew up in the Midwest (pretty close to Real America) died 15 years ago or so with the bee parasite. In CA (Unreal America) where I am now, I still see bees. But we need laws to protect them. Otherwise, the economic incentive is to kill them (as my landlord did, thrice) if they build a hive in a place that might bother people.</p> The bees where I grew up in the Midwest (pretty close to Real America) died 15 years ago or so with the bee parasite. In CA (Unreal America) where I am now, I still see bees. But we need laws to protect them. Otherwise, the economic incentive is to kill them (as my landlord did, thrice) if they build a hive in a place that might bother people.

]]> By: Lisa Derrick http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1689092 Lisa Derrick Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:25:36 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1689092 <p>I read an artcile in some science mag suggesting that pollution is affecting the scent of flowers–stiffling the flow, condensing it to a smaller area so that it is more diffcult for bees and other pollinators to pick up the odors and do their business…such a tragedy our lovely bees and the scented world…</p> I read an artcile in some science mag suggesting that pollution is affecting the scent of flowers–stiffling the flow, condensing it to a smaller area so that it is more diffcult for bees and other pollinators to pick up the odors and do their business…such a tragedy our lovely bees and the scented world…

]]> By: DeanOR http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1688962 DeanOR Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:55:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1688962 <p>I remember some “conservatives” a couple of years ago mocking liberals and environmentalists for being concerned about this, along the lines of<br /> ‘now they are worrying about bees dying, ha ha ha ha ha’. It’s a spiritual sickness to be so detached from one’s connection with the earth. So ignorant, arrogant, and stupid.</p> I remember some “conservatives” a couple of years ago mocking liberals and environmentalists for being concerned about this, along the lines of
‘now they are worrying about bees dying, ha ha ha ha ha’. It’s a spiritual sickness to be so detached from one’s connection with the earth. So ignorant, arrogant, and stupid.

]]> By: bluebutterfly http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1688955 bluebutterfly Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:50:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1688955 <p>Paul Bremmer’s Directive Order 51 unleashed Monsanto and its GMO in Iraq.<br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/62273/" rel="nofollow"><br /></a><a href="http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/62273/" rel="nofollow">http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/62273/</a></p> Paul Bremmer’s Directive Order 51 unleashed Monsanto and its GMO in Iraq.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/62273/

]]> By: bluebutterfly http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1688943 bluebutterfly Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:35:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1688943 <p>ecocide= genocide by starvation of humans….</p> ecocide= genocide by starvation of humans….

]]> By: bluebutterfly http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1688932 bluebutterfly Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:31:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/17/ecocides-bitter-harvest-english-honey-will-run-out-by-christmas/#comment-1688932 <p>It worked..will wonders never cease?</p> It worked..will wonders never cease?

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