by Heather Callaghan Even though the EU is initiating a 2-year ban on neonicotinoid pesticides which are heavily implicated in causing massive bee die-off, and a few organizations are suing the EPA for turning a blind eye towards pesticides – there is still a dire…
by Alex Pietrowski In what may be the single largest mass bumblebee die-off on record, some 50,000 plus bees were recently found littering the parking lot of a Target store in Wilsonville, Oregon recently after a landscaping company sprayed surrounding trees with the insecticide Safari….
By Heather Callaghan Imagine you own and run an all-natural sweetener factory. You walk into work and all the employees are sprawled out dead – on the floors, over railings, in the vats. They’ve been gassed; poisoned. Your immune system is slightly stronger so you…
By Heather Callaghan A study released last Monday shows that cheaper honey substitutes such as high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and sugar (made from genetically modified sugar beets) are contributing to massive bee death via Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) by depriving bees of crucial nutrients,…
By Heather Callaghan The pesticide industry, mainly Bayer and Syngenta, raised a big fuss about a pesticide ban in the European Union – a heated debate over there for awhile now. They saw lost profits – we saw potential for bee extinction and severe food…
By Heather Callaghan Putting the pesticides industry in charge of protecting bees, is like putting a fox in charge of a henhouse. – Alice Jay, campaign director, Avaaz.org The heat is on Syngenta and Bayer CropScience, makers of neonicotinoid insecticides, which are heavily indicated in sharp bee…
By Heather Callaghan It was January of this year that the European Food Safety Authority turned heads with their confirmation that neonicotinoids – insecticides derived from chemicals related to nicotine – are a smoking gun in the massive bee die off – also known as…
