Story at a Glance:
Honeybees are responsible for one-third of our food supply, yet they are disappearing at a startling rate in a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD
The documentary “Vanishing of the Bees” takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee, and it’s viewable here (at Dr. Mercola’s site) FREE, for a limited time
CCD is most likely the result of a constellation of factors, one of the largest being the growing contamination of their hives with pesticides, especially the newer systemic pesticides, or neonicotinoids.
Bees appear to be suffering catastrophic effects after exposure to even low levels of certain pesticides, including inability to fight off infections, nervous system damage, disorientation and impaired navigation.
Bees are increasingly being raised “factory farm” style with artificial food, artificial insemination, and grossly unnatural hive conditions that further stress the colony, highlighting an urgent need to return to more natural beekeeping traditions.
See Dr. Mercola April 21, 2012 for the complete story http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/04/21/vanishing-bees-film.aspx
Doctor Wilson comments: Posted On Apr 21, 2012
The unexplained loss of the honey bee is is another example of the unintended consequences of messing with Mother Nature. When you feed any living creature substances that they didn’t evolve eating, strange things begin to happen. Bee colonies disappear and general health goes down the tubes.
We pat ourselves on the back for using our brilliance and technology to send men to the moon but whenever we’ve tried to manipulate food to make it cheaper or more convenient, things haven’t work out so well. In other words things don’t always go better with Coke. Marie Harris was a 30 year-old mother from New Zealand who did her own experiment with fake food by consuming gallons of Coke daily before suddenly dying of a cardiac arrest.