Gucciardi reports: "... it is evident that Monsanto is under serious fire for their role in the downfall of the vital insects. It is therefore quite apparent why Monsanto bought one of the largest bee research firms on the planet."
A bumblebee flies around the blossoms on an azalea. (photo: AP)
Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm
23 April 12
onsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company's genetically modified corn may be devastating the dying bee population, it is evident that Monsanto is under serious fire for their role in the downfall of the vital insects. It is therefore quite apparent why Monsanto bought one of the largest bee research firms on the planet.
It can be found in public company reports hosted on mainstream media that Monsanto scooped up the Beeologics firm back in September 2011. During this time the correlation between Monsanto's GM crops and the bee decline was not explored in the mainstream, and in fact it was hardly touched upon until Polish officials addressed the serious concern amid the monumental ban. Owning a major organization that focuses heavily on the bee collapse and is recognized by the USDA for their mission statement of "restoring bee health and protecting the future of insect pollination" could be very advantageous for Monsanto.
In fact, Beelogics' company information states that the primary goal of the firm is to study the very collapse disorder that is thought to be a result - at least in part - of Monsanto's own creations. Their website states:
While its primary goal is to control the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) infection crises, Beeologics' mission is to become the guardian of bee health worldwide.
What's more, Beelogics is recognized by the USDA, the USDA-ARS, the media, and 'leading entomologists' worldwide. The USDA, of course, has a great relationship with Monsanto. The government agency has gone to great lengths to ensure that Monsanto's financial gains continue to soar, going as far as to give the company special speed approval for their newest genetically engineered seed varieties. It turns out that Monsanto was not getting quick enough approval for their crops, which have been linked to severe organ damage and other significant health concerns.
Steve Censky, chief executive officer of the American Soybean Association, states it quite plainly. It was a move to help Monsanto and other biotechnology giants squash competition and make profits. After all, who cares about public health?
"It is a concern from a competition standpoint," Censky said in a telephone interview.
It appears that when Monsanto cannot answer for their environmental devastation, they buy up a company that may potentially be their 'experts' in denying any such link between their crops and the bee decline.
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We will hear that bees just love the taste of genetically modified corn. In fact, 9 out of 10 bees prefer Monsanto's GM corn to mother nature's corn.
What's next. Will St. Peter sell the pearly gates to Goldman Sachs? Probably so.
Still RMDC who's selling what to Monsantor, they are the GMO'er.
It is reported that today California is using Brazil sugar cane ethanol at $0.16 per gal increase over using GMO corn fuel ethanol. In this game the cars and trucks get to pay and Big oil profits are the result that may be ready for change.
We do NOT support AB 523 or SB 1396 unless the ethanol mandate is changed to voluntary ethanol in our gas.
Folks that pay more at the pump for less from Cars, trucks, food, water & air need better, it is time.
The car tax of AB 118 Nunez is just a simple Big oil welfare program, AAA questioned the policy and some folks still agree.
AB 523 & SB 1326 are just a short put (waiver) from better results.
problem solved. They will play anything for a quid.
These are all part of the "hidden subsidy costs" of supporting big oil and big agribusiness with legally mandated, no-choice ethanol.
And, of course, this scam includes the added "benefit" of chasing car owners back to the auto dealership for a new model that much sooner as our engines
are prematurely wearing out.
I am amazed that no one made the connection until recently that insecticides kill bees. They do not discriminate between "pests" and pollinators. I don't think anyone is going to succeed in building a better honeybee, so if we want pollinators, something is going to have to be done about excessive pesticide use.
Face it, Dave, Monsanto has repeatedly and increasingly proven itself as perhaps the most destructive power the world has ever known, and is a major contributor to the destruction of our global biosphere. Say your prayers.
Brought to you by the 'Agent Orange' folks!
1. 'my satan' will patent the POLLINATION PROCESS, and
2. everything else this 'loss leading' PR exercise 'discovers', then
3. charge ALL END USERS (AKA - people and animals that eat food depending on said pollination process) -
a licencing fee?
Problem: Poisoning bees.
Reaction: 'SAVING THE BEES!'
Solution: Charge everybody a fee for doing it.
WINDOWS and POLLINATION existed long before MS, 'my satan', the Patent Office(s) and/or the internet. Now these toxic (dead fictions) corporates (that cannot exist without We The People) think a poxy company can 'own' anything? Imagine that.
It is long past time for big and global rounds of patent, trust and monopoly busting to bring down these vandals - that must include the corrupted legislative and commercial courts 'protection' rackets.
Look at the devastation being caused by corporations these days! How is it that Monsanto is still even here after the devastation cause by Agent Orange? Our very survival as a species depends on bees.
Monsanto truly represents the dark underbelly of capitalism.
Is there no limit to what giant corporations will do to control the news (or the TRUTH)that we citizens receive?
Has Monsanto big shots ever watched bees work? Such energy, such diligence. And they work for us humans for free. We pay them nothing. Monsanto thanks them by driving them into extinction -- all for some fast bucks. Is there anything more perverse than this?
William Maxwell, Ed.D.
Let's get real, someone should research the background of Beelogic. Then put into perspective all of the entomology departments at the Landgrant colleges where students and profs are grinding out research on the collapse problem. GO to the journals and find out who is supporting the research findings in the publications. There is a lot more research going on than Monsanto's Beelogic.
I do not expect peer reviewed material from RSN, but the expectation is that there be some logic and evidence instead of disconnected hunches.
Kris
I do know Monsanto can and does sue farmers miles away for taking advantage of their patented GMO process because the wind pick up and polluted the defendants crops.
Note that some of these folks are entrepreneurial types, i.e., put together companies or products to sell.
Much of the items that Tony put in the article are right off those web pages - boostful statements found on many corporate and, alas, academic websites to imply something such as "recongnized by..."
Read up folks, and Tony, please do a research article instead of speculative piece and help up grade the blogosphere.
That's my 2-cents after 5 minutes of web searching.
Kris
It's also just like the rest of the government--own ed and operated by corporate America via D.C lobbying.
The FDA (that supposedly looks out for food safety for U.S.citizens), is a good example. Monsanto has them under control them!
Another example....Next trip to a food store, check the frozen seafood. Almost all is from the orient (China, Vietnam, Thailand). I was concerned and inquired of the FDA about the safety of fish raised on farms that were reportedly harvesting from the same waters where they dumped sewage. I was advised that the companies verify the seafood's safety. It is never inspected by FDA.
Huh! Interestingly comfortable arrangement, eh?
It becomes hard to get a Monsanto boycott when they threaten to sue a state ( Vermont) that is ready to pass a law regarding the GMO stuff and Monsanto has quisling scientists that state how marvelous Monsantos poisons really are.
Monsanto has some serious problems but causing the colony collapse is not one of them. Focusing energy on them is just interfering with solving the real problem. It's sort of like the idiots who are screaming about vaccinations causing autism and thus limiting resources that could be used to look for the real causes.
See comment from Grulccm just above your own entry for the *correct* connection between corn and Bee Colony collapse. It has nothing to do with corn pollination, and it *is* connected directly to Monsanto GMO corn. You are tilting at windmills.
As with any pronunciation or action from the bellies of any multinational corporation and their huge PR departments, the opposite of their highly paid and widely disseminated propaganda, is most likely to be nearer the actual truth.
And their lobbyists keep burrowing though the back doors of the corridors of power and influence.
AND FYI...Monsanto buys up, pays off or sues ANYONE and EVERYONE in their path.
Only our voices TOGETHER can rise above the voice of monsanto's money.
There will almost certainly come a day, after enough damage has been done to cause a large die-off of our species, when all this mad science will be taboo.
Some variant of that plan may well be the Monsanto strategy-- to hold a virtual monopoly on food productivity is to wield enormous power.
This is exactly what is going to happen with new data on bees and GM crops.
Same with so much data with GM crops. This is one of the most manipulative corporations on earth whose aim is to dominate the major commodity crops. And in 15 years they are a long way toward doing this - from being a chemical company they are now the worlds biggest seed company and dominate much of the worlds maize, soy and cotton seed markets, notably in GM crops. They are responsible for an estimated 85% of GM crops worldwide, in one way or another.
So anything that Beelogics says from now will immediately be suspect, because here you have masters at massaging science to say what they want it to say, from chemicals to GM crops and now to bees. More is the tragedy: bees are rather important to us, but Monsanto could care less.
Monsanto will develop a GM strain of Roundup-Ready Bees with pesticide resistance and a red stripe, and market them for use as pollinators--BU T--they will produce poison honey!
Then the Chinese will buy the poison honey to mix with the good stuff and sell it to us, and some babies will die.
Then the remaining natural bees will declare war on Monsanto, swarm into their offices and sting their executives to death.
You miss an important point - that the treatment used to coat seeds has been implicated in CCD. And who makes and uses that seed treatment coating? Take a guess...our friends Bayer and Monsanto...
Take a squizz at this link for more...
http://www.viewzone.com/lostbees.bayerx.html
I am not advocating bigger government, but a more utilitarian one - one that was constructed for the well being of its citizens.
If we don't start electing politicians that will see to it that those agencies of the federal government, that were set up to protect all Americans, have the willingness and teeth to do the jobs they were created for...then, in essence, we, the American voter, will be the architects of our own demise.
It is pure, unadulterated inanity (and possibly insanity) to believe that the 1%, the corporations/bi g business have the best interests of the American public at heart…over profits and the wieldable power those profits bring. Their actions in the past have shown their dedicated path. Does anyone REALLY believe they will change their tune/spots/aim… without force?
Pogo’s quote is a truism, now more than ever…”We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us!” (The “us” is the American voter.)
I personally believe that greed is a greater crime than murder. A murder will put to great grief - a family - a few relatives - a few friends…but unmitigated greed, by a few, will decimate an entire society and create even greater death and destruction, but, admittedly, at a slower pace…which draws out the suffering.
the Executives of Monsanto, holding them
in shipping containers 24-7, adding a few thousand bees to each container as
OUR questions are asked. We'll soon learn the real TRUTH and the survivors can then be shipped to real Prisons for the rest of their lives.
Brent
Thre cherry trees are bolooming - and NOT single bee - looks like we will have not much cherries this year ago.Nights are worm and NOT single bat.
Only le 10 years ago this area was full of life. Add global warming causing ustable weather - snow in May etc.
The complex wav of life is broken.
Corn has genetically implanted insecticide that is crowding out normal breeds of corn,
http://www.organicconsumers.org/Corn/spreadofGECorn.cfm
Notice when there was a lot of bees in the how many were buzzing corn spweeted soda cans
Bees are in tight quarters all eating regurgitated food an environment for epidemic. Slightly sick bees leave the hive to be on their own. So they don't end up slightly stunted from a little insecticide like other insects but instead try to make it on their own. If bees start returning to the nest despite fearing slightly sick the problem might end up worse then ever,
http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/27-27/11025-bee-colony-collapse-hiding-from-danger
Look into it and spread the alarm
Richard Kane
Vanishing of the Bees http://www.vanishingbees.com/
Please wake up people-this is simply about POWER- not money,not politics- it is about the POWER to CONTROL. The ONLY way to 'freedom' is by being self-reliant. Learn everything you can;form small communities that can survive with what they can create/do/suppl y/build on their own.STOP supporting the ones who wish you dead.You are SO manipulated-WAK E UP
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