bees

Small quakes, origins of happiness and cognitive deficits + this day in history w/Sandy Hook and our song of the day by Japandroids on your Morning Monarchy for December 14, 2016.

Bayer CropScience LP has agreed to pay Massachusetts $75,000 and caved in to the state’s demand that it stop saying that its neonicotinoid pesticides are like “giving a daily vitamin” to plants, when the chemicals have been linked with honeybee colony collapse disorder. [1]
Source: Compound Interest

A new ‘scorecard’ report gives a failing grade to 17 out of 20 major food retailers in the United States, based on their policies and practices regarding pollinator protection, organic options, and pesticide reduction. [1]
Source: Friends of the Earth
Read: Aldi Bans Bee-Killing Neonic Pesticides on Produce
Tiffany Finck-Haynes, food futures campaigner with Friends of the Earth, said:

The CIA predicts the unrest it creates; Germany wants EU to ban gas cars; and robo-bees are coming for your pollen.

The CIA predicts the unrest it creates; Germany wants EU to ban gas cars; and robo-bees are coming for your pollen.

OneTouch hack, sporting goods sellout and cash crops + this day in history w/Monty Python's Flying Circus and our song of the day by Devendra Banhart on your Morning Monarchy for October 5, 2016.

Here's what they should have been talking about instead.

A recent investigation by the environmental organization Greenpeace uncovered unpublished field trials by pesticide manufacturers which show that their products cause serious harm to honeybees at high levels. Senior scientists are now calling for the companies to stop hiding the results of their tests. [1]

Nuked bees, down on the farm and psychedelic research + this day in history w/Mountain Meadows massacre and our song of the day by Drive-By Truckers on your Morning Monarchy for September 7, 2016.

The Zika virus is a real and legitimate fear, so finding a way to cut the mosquito population, which spreads the virus, is important. But in Dorchester County, South Carolina, millions of bees were killed when county officials sprayed pesticides to combat the disease-carrying insects.