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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRBJf57aNp4&feature=related
There is a part 2. Scroll down on the right when part one is done, and you will find it.
The honey bee folks met on Tuesday this week. The conclusion is a report that says this winter, 36% of the U.S. honeybees DIED. We are beginning our growing season with a THIRD less bees. What will the fall look like? The CNN article is available. I'll find it and post it in a bit.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/06/disappearing.bees.ap/index.html
Here is the CNN article on the honeybees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_XnvZAcM0U&feature=related
After listening to all of this and reading the article, do you start to wonder why we're sick? This neonicatonoid destroys the immune system. If you watch the last Youtube video with the woman – she describes it pretty well.
I post this here because I think it has a lot to do with our health. You know, a good old fashioned showdown with the big business and corporations that are profiting off our our sicknesses isn't such a bad idea.
Jenn,
I have posted about this before. I mentioned how bees were trucked in from all over the world and even from other countries to pollinate massive crops. It really disturbed me when I read about it because it is so obviously a bad idea. The logistics that go into are clearly “stressful” to the bees and unhealthy in the long run. Groups of bees intermingle in very unnatural ways. We are kind of aware how mass production of meat is a bad idea, but we are very unaware how mass production of food crops are also a bad idea. Obviously because of pesticides/herbicides, but also because of the bee issue, and there are probably other issues involving having acres upon acres of monoagriculture going on. I don't care if they have done this for 30 years (like that is a long time) or if the Egyptians did it. That doesn't mean it is a good idea.
This is a quote from a previous post I wrote.
I'm also very interested in changing the way I think about food and being a consumer. For example, as I have said, I drink only raw goat milk. I get this from a local person who does nothing but this. She is awesome and works really hard. She gives me 6 quarts of milk in glass mason jars and I return them next time. Her milk never touches anything but stainless steel and glass, so it always tastes fresh and real. There is no plastic waste, no shopping bags, and I know exactly where my money went.
I LOVE this on every level. This would be my goal to to with all my food and, indeed, a lot of other things such as clothing or household items, at least, in my perfect world. It would mean changing the way I think of “needs” but that would not be hard. It also would be difficult where I live because I live in the desert, so local produce is limited, but it could be expanded in an economy that worked that way. We need to get away from mass production, and I think we will slowly. I know lots of people who are moving in that direction. It is very exciting. I'm looking forward to moving to a place where it will be easier to do, but like everything it will take people shifting their paradigm and that is always a slow and painful process.
We MUST move our economy away from mass production – of anything (and that includes medicine and education). It is better for us, our children, our animal populations and the environment. The point about the goat milk is not so much about the goat milk – it illustrates how we can change our habits to encourage production of products on the small scale. And it applies to other areas just as well. It doesn't mean there wouldn't be any problems, but people would have to take responsibility for them and solve them in more creative and healthy ways. We couldn't have all products all the time, but we would be better off.
Well, I was thinking how Bayer has that neonicatinoid that destroys the insect's immune system. I'm concerned about the bees separately- but if you listen to what the scientists are saying about how this insecticide works…!!! How can that NOT impact human immune systems? I read today in the Independent…
…how they're giving the go-ahead for GM potatoes … read the last paragraph if nothing else
Gives me chills.Jenn
I know what you mean. Scary stuff. The desire to “fix” one problem (and keep the money rolling) means they won't take the time or money to look at the unintended consequences.
Did you see the way the government specialist danced around the question about the pesticide in that video you posted? His confidence that science would “consistently” point to that as the problem if it really was after telling the interviewer that the problem was “complex” and would probably not have “one cause” or “even several” made me pretty sure that fingering a pesticide was not on his to-do list.
Here is an article a friend of mine sent recently. It is kind of off topic (although right on in a general sense). The “research” field is highly corrupted in medicine, but it must be just as bad or even worse in agriculture because truly researching the affects of a pesticide or GM on the environment and humans (especially when used at the level they use it – thousands of acres of crops) is pretty tough to do. No one wants to invest that much time or money. So the we are left to take the word of the company producing the chemical that they are safe.
What a mess. I worry for our kids futures.
Ghostwriters for medical researchers?
Dear Friend,
When a student puts his name on something he didn't write, we call it cheating. What about when a doctor does it? To me, it's still cheating – and people like you are the victims.
According to a new report that's about to be published in a leading medical journal, Merck – a major Big Pharma company – actually wrote their own research reports for one of their drugs, and then found prestigious doctors to put their names on the published research. That's right: the so-called “objective” doctors allegedly put their good names on research that was conducted BY the drug company that was to be used to help SELL that drug company's product.
It's a shameful revelation for the entire medical profession. But sadly, this practice has been one of the dirty little secrets of the medical community for years. What's even more embarrassing is that the facts in this report were unearthed as part of the lawsuits over the Vioxx catastrophe from 2004. If you'll recall, Vioxx was a top-selling pain drug until research linked it to heart attacks. The result was a monstrous $4.85 billion settlement for thousands of former patients, and a massive black eye for Merck.
The report's lead author is Dr. Joseph Ross of New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine. “It almost calls into question all legitimate research that's been conducted by the pharmaceutical industry with the academic physician,” Ross says. He's right.
As for Merck, the Big Pharma giant has naturally gone into self-defense mode (I'm sure the loss of that $4.85 billion has made them a little skittish). They've acknowledged that they sometimes hire outside medical writers to draft research reports prior to handing them over to the doctors whose names actually appear on the reports. But Merck insists that it's untrue to say that the doctors whose names are on the report do little of the actual research and analysis that's published. Merck claims (or, more precisely, Merck's lawyer claims) that the final report is the product of the doctor named as the author and “accurately reflects his or her opinion.”
Yeah, right.
http://www.restoretherepublic.com/content/view/1113/71/
I think I read that already.. .was that from Natural News? I like that site. I posted for you a link to a documentary shown in France about Monsanto. It's called, “The world according to Monsanto”.
This is a chilling video. The actions of Monsanto amount to genocide. Happily, we have a news media in America that keeps the focus off our own atrocities and keeps us pointing scolding fingers at the rest of the world.
Jenn
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