HEALTH

EPA Approves New Bee-Killing, Food-Poisoning Insecticide

July 29, 2014 0

By:Kimberlee Hertzer   The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the use of a new insecticide, DuPont’s cyantraniliprole (CTP), despite concerns about it getting into the nation’s food supply and the fact that it’s highly […]

ENVIRONMENT

Are Bee-Friendly Plants ‘Poisoning Pollinators’?

June 25, 2014 0

Report finds that over half of ‘bee-friendly’ plants sold at major garden centers contain deadly neonicotinoids More than half of the plants being sold at major garden retailers under the guise of being “bee-friendly” are […]

HEALTH

Bee Killers Sponsor National Pollinator Week

June 12, 2014 0

Concerned about the bees and the butterflies? Interested in celebrating National Pollinator Week? It’s happening next week, June 16-22, 2014. And it’s brought to you, in part, by none other than Monsanto and Bayer. In […]

ENVIRONMENT

The Social Cost of GMOs

May 26, 2014 0

By: Paul Craig Roberts Ecological economists such as Herman Daly write that the more full the world becomes, the higher are the social or external costs of production. Social or external costs are costs of […]

ENVIRONMENT

We May Have Solved the Mystery of the Dying Bees

May 14, 2014 0

By Annalee Newitz For over a decade, a disease called colony collapse disorder has been destroying bee populations worldwide. Because bees pollinate many of our staple crops, their deaths threaten our food supplies. Now, new […]

ENVIRONMENT

The Fox (Monsanto) Buys the Chicken Coop (Beeologics)

March 9, 2013 8

Why would one of the largest purveyors of pesticides, genetically engineered seeds and agrochemicals want to buy a company which has been seeking solutions to the escalating threats to the world bee population? Monsanto spokeswomen […]

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