“Is high-fructose corn syrup helping to kill the honeybees?”
~ Cynthia G. Creel
6-11-2013
What do bees eat? That was a simple question. I was surprised at the answers, the top three were:
Flowers
Nectar
Pollen
(leave your answer in a comment below)
Not one person I asked told me honey. Yes bees eat honey. We are educated how they collect the ingredients to produce honey and I can’t remember reading anything on what the bee ate before I started researching a few years ago. With creating the By Design farm I discovered the bees loved the grapes with the vines growing high up into some of the trees I would see them sucking out the juices of the grapes. In today’s world people eat the honey and what do many of the bees eat, high-fructose corn syrup?
Bee keepers killing off the bees with corn syrup?:
High-fructose corn syrup is not the same as honey. To make more profit it seems the bee keepers are taking the honey form the hive and substituting cheaper sugars like high-fructose corn syrup for the bees to eat.. According to Reuters (1) this practice may be contributing to the bee colony collapse by depriving the bee of their natural food. It would be like trading breast milk for high-fructose corn syrup when a mom gives birth to a baby.
Bees are important if you love honey, but also are responsible for pollination of the fruits and vegetables that make up one forth of the American diet. With the massive loses in the last several years the honeybee population is endanger of being lost forever.
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Apiary Inspectors of America said in May that more than 30 percent of America's managed honeybee colonies were lost during the winter of 2012-13, up sharply from around 22 percent the previous winter but still close to the six-year average.”
The end result may be the bees are unable to handle the modern world with the pesticides currently being used and lack of their natural food in combination of lost of natural habitat. Europe is still being affected with a loss in bee population after banning three of the worlds most widely used pesticides for two years with one call neonicotinoids produced by companies like Monsanto, Bayer AG and Syngenta. With bee mites becoming resistant to pesticides they are another cause chipping away at the bee colonies.(2)
Monsanto will save the bees?
Of course the ones producing pesticides that are most likely contributing to bee colony collapse are also doing research to “fix” the problem. As I wrote on a previous blog (2) Monsanto created corn with Bt pesticide to destroy the rootworm. And bees being insects are affected by pesticides like neonicotinoids. Monsanto’s answer is to purchase the Beeologics in September of 2011 to genetically change bees to be resistant to the pesticides. Monsanto has also genetically modified crops creating other problems with the food productions like rouge GE wheat found in a farmers field in Oregon. (3) Monsanto keeps creating and the unexpected happens. Are they creating more problems then they are fixing and in the long run making large amounts of profits?
Final words:
It seems like a bad movie with the mad scientists creating one thing and then another to fix what they have just poorly created. The bee’s seem to be paying a large price with their lives. Are we too far behind the bees if things don’t change?
I have found the information is complicated with many parts. It takes hours of research and effort even to get a small picture of what is happening. The question that still is in my mind is it too late? My answer is always the same if we don’t take time to understand and do not act proactively it may be too late. I do believe there is still time to eliminate what has been creates a “fake” world that leaves us hanging on with our finger tips to a hold hand grasp that will allow us all to hold on forever to the real world.
Looking at the whole picture always helps me make a better choice. Be more proactive we can all become just a little bit better and the more likely the negative results in life can be avoided. Stand up tall with an upright posture and be proactive. The solution helps to keep moving the best direction is to step onto the path of True Health. Discover a new world. Help yourself, help the world, step on to the Path of True Health and vote with your dollars company you want to support to create a world you will love to live in. I do, and I like the world I am helping to create. Together we can create a better life for all to remember over their entire lifetime Together we can protect what we have so we don’t need to live in a world that is second rate.
By Design ~ “Life is good By Design”
Photo and photo creation by Cynthia G. Creel all rights reserved ©2013
Bees pollinating onion plant. The bees are different this year the colors are much duller. I often wonder why? A different colony? A different type?
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Source:
(1) http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/03/us-usa-bees-food-idUSBRE9520XM20130603
(2) http://lifeisgoodbydesign.blogspot.com/2013/03/as-far-as-eye-can-see-nothing-not-even.html
(3)
http://lifeisgoodbydesign.blogspot.com/2013/06/more-ge-wheat-growing-in-open-fields.html
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