Syngenta Continues to Play God with Our Food
In 2011, 12 million bees died in Brevard County, Florida.
In 2013, 37 million bees at a Canadian beekeeping operation died.
More recently, 25,000 bee corpses were found in the parking lot of a Target in Oregon.
More on this in a moment.
If we were to talk to one of the scientists at Syngenta, one of the top pesticide companies in the world and the global leader in the treated seed market, they would probably try to impress us with their college degrees and unpronounceable words.
They make a good living by creating seed coatings, pesticides, etc., and then selling them to farmers. Their goal is to create products that will result in food for the masses.
They want to make crops invincible against enemies such as bugs and diseases, not to mention the very pesticides they create to kill those bugs.
Maybe they believe they are doing the world a great service. But at the end of the day, they are playing God.
No one yet knows the long-term effects that genetically modified food will have on the world’s population, but there have been plenty of warning signs.
Today’s treated seeds are so far removed from natural, God-given seeds that they are barely recognizable. They are treated with fungicides to target specific diseases. Micro nutrients are implanted to help the seeds germinate and grow. Insecticides are added to kill the bugs that might eat away at the crop.
But anytime you mess with nature, you are asking for trouble.
As we know, EPA officials are constantly sticking their noses where they don’t belong. But conveniently for big business, which is in bed with those officials, the EPA does not regulate seeds treated with insecticides or fungicides.
This is not good news for bees, and therefore it’s not good news for us.
Due to the overwhelming evidence that Syngenta’s insecticides are killing bees, the company’s spokespeople aren’t even attempting to deny it.
Trying to skate around the issue, they say the solution is to plant more flowers so that bees will have more food and won’t need to munch on crops treated with Syngenta’s pesticides.
Great idea. Let’s just post a bunch of signs telling bees to stay away from these poisonous insecticides and instead find flowers for their pollination duties.
Here are a few headlines you might have read:
- A Reason Millions of Bees Are Dying – The Washington Post
- Bees Are Dying: What Can We Do About It? – CNN
- Here’s Why All the Bees Are Dying – Mother Jones
- What Is Killing America’s Bees and What Does It Mean for Us? – Rolling Stone
Most plants rely on bees and other natural pollinators to produce some of nature’s most nutritious foods. They include honey, almonds, pears, avocados, grapes and a whole lot more. In fact, it’s estimated that one-third of everything we eat is dependent on bees and their pollenating work.
But with beekeepers in the U.S. losing 44 percent of their colonies between April 2015 and April 2016, there is plenty of cause for concern.
Except, of course, from the folks at Syngenta. They don’t seem to care too much.
Very difficult and disadtrous situation. There IS one solution that might work:
Farmers are individual people… mostly good people, but work daily with corporations that “help” them to make a living with their poisons.
These farmers watch farm reports, go to farm shows and conventions (mostly off-season), and otherwise work like anyone else does.
If other good people were to make a conceeted effort to learn about farmers and their lives and concerns, and then approach them and talk to them specigfically about what insecticides they use and secifically about what those insecticides and GMO seeds are doing to their families and neighbors (showing scientific facts about the situation) they may listen. But they, despite what the city ifiots would have you believe, are NOT dumb people. They’ve been convinced by the seed and insecticide corporations (with big-money campaigns) about the safety of what they’re using. If the opposition came with demonstrations of infpormation that shows the OPPOSITE is true, and gives them viable alternatives for their farming operations, the farmers wouold listen … provided they don’t get the impression they’re trying to be “schooled” by a bunch of know-it-alls.
One other comment on this article:
though I agree with the author in principle and in fact, I highly object to the highly questionable leftist news sources he’s chosen for his “facts.”
CNN, MotherJones, Wahington Post, Rolling Stone ???? COME ON!!! Geez, I would not beleive a word they utter. They ALWAYS have an evil, ulterior motive for the trash they spit out. PULEEZ!, you could have found some better scientific reports for the sources of true factual data. I tdoesn’t say much about your article.
Again, though, IMO it IS true that the insect poisons (and those delivered via GMOs) are responsible on a large scale for setruction of natural, God-given resources that are highly beneficial to all of us, including honey bees, and something needs to be done about it.
But again, as the old adage goes, honey attracts more bees than vinegar, and that goes for good, hard-working farmers …
Excuse for my spelling typos … trying to type too fast.
Bees are the most important thing to feed and grow foods. Without bees, foods are declining. EMERGENCY!!
WHY do companies destroy bees??
Dying bees have been getting worse for a long time. Are people ignoring the fact, thinking that it will get better by itself? There are a lot of company products responsible, letters have been written, petitions signed, to no avail. I don’t want to think about life without bees doing so much work for humans!
The death of bees is a very serious subject. However, at a civilian level it holds little or not interest to us. Why? Because it is at the food production level, Farmer John’s level and corporate level.
When Farmer John grows his produce, he must ensure that his crops survive. He will spray them with insecticide then with herbicides. Farmer John needs his plants to be pollinated; but he cares little for the life of bees as long as they do their job.
What the farmer doesn’t realize is that when he sprays his crops for insects he kills the good insects in his fields. Then when you uses the herbicides to kill the weeds, again he doesn’t realize that the other “Good” plants will absorb the poison(s) that kill the weeds. As long as he can sell his crops, why should he care if it harms the people. In his mind he says let the Government deal with it. (I’ve have heard farmers and ranchers all over this country say this sort of thing. All they are looking for is a payday, down and dirty if need be.
So, bees are dying. All we can do is get the Government involve and allow the scientist show the government what needs to be done before it is too late. We need to make certain that the Government and farmers ensure that the lives of bees continue. Otherwise, we may face our own extinction.
Hold them responsibl Syngenta for what they are doing to our bees before it is too late in the game.
Just stop buying their junk.
I am very sorry for us. We need to fight back –one person at a time.