COLONY COLLAPSE

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket." GEORGE ORWELL

aloha,
NO i am NOT involved with the HUTAREE MILITIA despite the same last names. HA :)

i take bee pollen almost daily( for energy & mental clarity-is it working???)
so i have more than a passing interest in the health of the bee population.
as i mentioned i planted some lavender last week so that future zucchini and squash will be pollinated. a day or two later a BIG FAT HEALTHY BEE was buzz8ng around our front porch...a few days later i was buying some sandwiches in nearby Soquel and another bee landed on the car window, i thot it was a wasp at first it was so SKINNY then i realized it was a thin sickly looking bee, different hive?
anyway nobody seems to know what is causing the MASSIVE DIE OFF of COLONY COLLAPSE, UC DAVIS is on the mystery but.. some random thinker have implicated GM FOODS (Genetically Modified with not enough testing before being rubber stamped approval). did it occur to anyone to test the bees for these UNNATURAL FOODS? sigh.

tangentially, we are amidst an EPIDEMIC OF CHILDHOOD & ADULT OBESITY, the BBC showed some researchers & lawsuits who blame CORN SYRUP, a manufactured food WHICH THE BODY CANNOT FULLY DIGEST. the feds SUBSIDIZE CORN GROWERS for ethanol and jobs and CORN SYRUP was invented to dispose of the surplus until ethanol is the norm.( also a wasteful usage) GM FOODS ARE IN MOST FAST FOODS AND JUNK FOODS and the feds caved on labeling -them as they do in Europe....just as REAGAN downgraded meat quality standards during his reign for his beef industry buddies ( u can WIKI this i think)..

YET ANOTHER SELF INFLICTED WOUND.huge sigh.
will we humans fare better than the bees...
live & learn (hopefully).

namaste y'all
'DRILL BABY DRILL" was mean sarcastically!
i heartily disagree, CONSERVATION would save 3-5 x more fuel.
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