June 7, 2007 6:00 P.M. PDT
Hello Dear Friends and White Knights,
A few hours ago I spoke with a gentleman who has cured over 10,000 people of health problems using NATURAL therapies. He informed me new studies state that 70% - SEVENTY PERCENT of the Honey Bees on the USA East Coast and 50% - FIFTY PERCENT of the Honey Bees on the USA West Coast – HAVE DIED due to gathering pollen from GENETICALLY MODIFIED/ENGINEERED (GM/GE) CROPS!
“Highly respected scientists believe that exposure to genetically engineered crops and their plant-produced pesticides merit serious consideration as either the cause or a contributory factor….” “…genetically modified, insect-resistant plants are now used in 40 percent of cornfields in the United States….”
“BEES POLLINATE AN ESTIMATED 60 PERCENT OF OUR CROPS AS WELL AS WILD PLANTS.”
http://www.moraybeekeepers.co.uk/gmbees.htm
an ALBERT EINSTEIN QUOTE: "IF THE BEE DISAPPEARED OFF THE SURFACE OF THE GLOBE THEN MAN WOULD ONLY HAVE FOUR YEARS OF LIFE LEFT. NO MORE BEES, NO MORE POLLINATION, NO MORE PLANTS, NO MORE ANIMALS, NO MORE MAN."
Posted 25 March 07
ARE GM CROPS KILLING OUR BEES ?
Two pieces of text below, the first from America's most prestigious and effective advocate for the environment ... the Sierra Club and the second from "Der Spiegel" is Europe's biggest and Germany's most influential news magazine with a circulation of around one million.
The first letter below from the Sierra Club makes a case that was more or less ignored in the US NRC 2006 report on honey bee decline. The problem is not only honey bee death but the tunnel vision of a US government-academic cabal who wish to ignore agricultural pesticides and most strikingly GM crops. Like the problem of global warming US science funding is tied more to political ideology than to full and truthful inquiry. The tragedy is that the honey bees will suffer the consequences. Genetic Engineering GE and bee Colony Collapse Disorder -- science needed!
Download the CRS report for Congress 26 Mar 07 ... "Recent Honey Bee Colony Declines" (in pdf format ...188Kb) .................
Dear Senator Thomas Harkin,
We share similar concerns. The viability of a robust food supply is paramount to the American people.
One out of every three bites of food that we consume is due to the work of honeybees, serving as crucial pollinators in agriculture and farming communities. Yet agriculture and food production may be severely impacted by Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a trend documented in honey bee colonies and prominently featured in a New York Times story (1). Beekeepers are reporting estimates as high as 80% loss of their honey bee colonies. Such a huge loss of the services of bees is extremely serious and beekeepers report it's a growing trend.
The cause of CCD is unknown. Although factors being considered include pesticides, mites, microbial disease and habitat decline, there's a possible link that's not being investigated. Highly respected scientists believe that exposure to genetically engineered crops and their plant-produced pesticides merit serious consideration as either the cause or a contributory factor to the development and spread of CCD.(2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) In searching for the cause of massive honey bee losses nationwide, we must leave no stone unturned to find the answer.
This past decade we are seeing releases into the environment that we have never before seen on this planet. Genetic engineering involves the artificial transfer of genes from one organism into another, bypassing the protective barrier between species. Scientists admit that "unintended consequences" may occur due to the lack of precision and specificity in the DNA sites on different plant chromosomes where the inserted genes randomly end up. According to the prominent biologist Dr. Barry Commoner and pioneer in ecology, "Genetically engineered crops represent a huge uncontrolled experiment whose outcome is inherently unpredictable. The results could be catastrophic."(11) Dr. David Schubert has expressed similar concerns in pointing out some of the significant holes existing in current genetic engineering technology that raise serious questions about how well we understand it and how to apply such a new emerging science.(12) An issue Dr. Schubert raises is the "unpredictability" in the artificial gene splicing technology that is routinely performed in genetic engineering because it may lead to unpredictable consequences. Are the honey bees trying to tell us about the "unintended consequences" from large-scale genetic engineering in agriculture?
Investigators have raised the possibility that honey bees are experiencing a sublethal effect such as a "suppressed immune system" from an unknown toxin. However, sublethal effects have not been fully investigated. Dennis van Engelsdorp, a bee specialist with the state of Pennsylvania who is part of the team studying the bee colony collapses, said the "strong immune suppression" investigators have observed "could be the AIDS of the bee industry," making bees more susceptible to other diseases that eventually kill them off. (1) Nonetheless, a concern is that genetically engineered crops are being ignored as a possible culprit, especially with tens of millions of acres now being planted each year of cultivars producing large concentrations of pesticides that did not exist on such a scale just a decade ago.
Currently regulators fail to require adequate analysis of transgene insertion sites. This omission results from the failure to appreciate the magnitude of genetic damage sustained by transgenic plants.(11,12) Regulators have also failed to adequately assess the potential for lethal and sublethal impacts of engineered crop pesticides on pollinators like honey bees and wild bees, including the larvae brood and young bees. Studies are needed to evaluate the impact of GE crops on sublethal effects such as learning and feeding behaviour. In addition, honey bee colonies are being fed GE corn syrups and parts of recycled hives containing additional GE food residues. The effect of these feeding practices on bees needs study.
Considering that loss of honeybee pollinators can leave a huge void in the kitchens of the American people and an estimated loss of 14 billion dollars to farmers, it would be prudent to use caution. If genetically engineered crops are killing honeybees, a moratorium on their planting should be considered.
Senator Harkin, as Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, you are in a key position to initiate investigations to determine if exposure to genetically engineered crops is the missing link. Emergency funding for research on the pollinator decline needs to be available to researchers and the USDA.
Most sincerely,
Laurel Hopwood,
Chair Sierra Club Genetic Engineering Committee
Der Spiegel is Europe's biggest and Germany's most influential news magazine with a circulation of around one million.
EXTRACT: The researchers examined the effects of pollen from a genetically modified maize variant called "Bt corn" on bees... According to Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, a professor at the University of Halle in Eastern Germany and the director of the study, THE BACTERIAL TOXIN IN THE GENETICALLY MODIFIED CORN MAY HAVE "ALTERED THE SURFACE OF THE BEE'S INTESTINES, SUFFICIENTLY WEAKENING THE BEES TO ALLOW THE PARASITES TO GAIN ENTRY -- or perhaps it was the other way around. We don't know."
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COLLAPSING COLONIES ARE GM CROPS KILLING BEES?<br><br>By Gunther Latsch<br>Der Spiegel (edited)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,473166,00.html
"A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions. The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous."
FROM THE MAGAZINE
"The scientists are also surprised that bees and other insects usually leave the abandoned hives untouched. Nearby bee populations or parasites would normally raid the honey and pollen stores of colonies that have died for other reasons, such as excessive winter cold.
"This suggests that there is something toxic in the colony itself which is repelling them," says Cox-Foster.
"Walter Haefeker, the German beekeeping official, speculates that "besides a number of other factors," the fact that genetically modified, insect-resistant plants are now used in 40 percent of cornfields in the United States could be playing a role. The figure is much lower in Germany -- only 0.06 percent -- and most of that occurs in the eastern states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg. Haefeker recently sent a researcher at the CCD Working Group some data from a bee study that he has long felt shows a possible connection between genetic engineering and diseases in bees."
http://www.santostrading.com.au/articles/bees.html
GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS THREATEN BEES.
"The world's food supply could be under serious threat. Antibiotic resistant genes from genetically modified crops are suspected of decimating the North American bee population.
"The US is importing millions of dollars worth of Australian bees to pollinate its food crops. US BEES ARE DYING FROM ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT STRAINS OF BACTERIA, likely to be the result of widespread genetically modified (GM) crops. At the same time, the Australian Federal government is pushing for the adoption of GM crops here, and is reducing support for Australian beekeepers."
Source: http://www.biotech-info.net/JR_testimony.html
Insufficient Safeguards
In the UK, farmers planting GM crops do not have to consult with neighbouring beekeepers. This means these bees could easily make honey contaminated with GM pollen. Under present UK laws the beekeepers are responsible for testing their honey for GM contamination. This is an expensive process that can cost thousands of dollars. The official “safe” distances established to protect bee populations appear to be insufficient.
Friends of the Earth again. “Honey bees commonly forage up to 2km from the hive, but oilseed rape fields are such an attractive source of nectar that bees may travel at least five km to get to them.”
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/bees_honey_gm_crops.html
"The friends of the earth (foe) goes on to describe a study where bee hives were placed at various distances from GM oilseed rape crops. GM pollen was found in all hives up to 4.5km away! This study shows that honey and bee pollen can be contaminated with GM pollen up to 4,5km away, which suggests crops up to 9km away could be polluted with GM pollen.
"The Pandora's Box of gene manipulation is well and truly open."
NESARA ENDS GM/GE CROPS
NESARA will BAN the use of all GM/GE crops and organisms. NESARA will require a return to organic crops to restore nutrients to food and save the soil.
NESARA will REQUIRE the COMPLETE DISMANTLING of Monsanto Corporation which is trying to corner the market of food seeds and water supplies worldwide; Monsanto is a major manufacturer of GM/GE crop seeds. NESARA will ORDER all GM/GE crop seeds be destroyed immediately. If you have Monsanto stock, SELL IT because you should NOT invest in a totally unethical corporation and you will lose your money.
NESARA will establish a National Health Care (NHC) system in the USA which will NOT be funded by taxes. The NHC will be funded by two new sources of funds which are NOT taxes and which will pay for all Americans’ health care. NESARA’s NHC will make natural therapies and practices the PRIMARY health care for Americans; all CURES of diseases are from natural therapies – NOT pharmaceutical drugs.
NESARA will require deep investigations into pharmaceutical drugs side effects and harmful effects; NESARA will STOP pharmaceutical drugs television commercials. NESARA will require a corruption task force to expose the lies and corruption of the US Food and Drug Administration and drug companies and many personnel will be indicted for crimes and fired. NESARA will completely clean up the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and remove all natural products, supplements, foods, herbs, etc. from the FDA’s authority forever.
NESARA will authorize a government office staffed with people knowledgeable in organic and natural products and therapies to work with these and PROMOTE the use of organic and natural products.
Every single person in the USA and Europe where GM/GE crops are allowed should be marching on their local, state, and federal government offices and demanding NO GM or GE CROPS! These GM/GE crops are KILLING the BEES which are absolutely necessary to the world!
AUSTRALIA: YOU MUST FIGHT your corrupt governments who are trying to force you to allow GM or GE crops. YOU should gather at government offices and DEMAND there be NO GM/GE crops in Australia; hammer your government representatives with PROTESTS and REFUSALS to allow GM/GE crops.
Furthermore, AUSTRALIA: You MUST INCREASE your BEEKEEPING businesses because Australian bees may be the only bees left which are free of the health damage caused to bees by GM/GE crops in other places.
NESARA will REQUIRE the complete removal of the entire US Congress – Senators and Representatives – because the congresses of the last several years have been the WORST EVER! It is Congress’ fault the USA is suffering from harmful GM/GE crops, from FALSE terrorist attacks, from pharmaceuticals charging huge fees for their drugs, and a multitude of other crimes.
Not only are the BEES DYING, but GM foods are HARMING HUMANS – causing more incidents of ECOLI which is used in splicing of genes in GM foods and HUMANS are ingesting anti-bacterial resistance GM foods! There are EVEN BIRTH DEFECTS in human babies traced back to GM crops!
NESARA will fix ALL these problems and implement reforms to improve all aspects of our lives!
NESARA has comprehensive SOLUTIONS. NESARA needs your help – read the Ticker Tape message at www.nesara.us for how you can help NESARA to help YOU.
PLEASE FORWARD this to EVERY PERSON who cares about the world – TO EVERY PERSON who uses NATURAL THERAPIES, SUPPLEMENTS, AND ORGANIC FOODS – TO EVERY PERSON WHO EATS FOOD – because the BEES are dying and we have only a FEW YEARS left.
Blessings and Love,
Dove of Oneness
Executive Director
International NESARA Take Action Teams
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