Give Bees a Chance: Go Organic!
What began with the collapse of bee colonies has become a full-on insect apocalypse that scientists say is “tearing apart the tapestry of life”, devastating bird populations, impacting human health and threatening the future of foods that rely on pollinators.
The U.S. agricultural landscape is now 48 times more toxic to bees than it was 25 years ago and crop yields for apples, cherries and blueberries are already being reduced by a lack of pollinators.
Why? Because of Bayer’s business model: genetically modified seeds soaked in bee-killing neonic insecticides.
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Organic Bytes Newsletter
Read Current Issue — March 7, 2024
#842: Pharmaceuticals Are Illegally Being Grown In and Contaminating Food Crops
In This Issue:
- Pharmaceuticals Are Contaminating Food Crops Illegally
- Stop Funding Pharma Crops!
- Boiling Tap Water May Be Solution to Microplastics
- March Summit at White Oak Pastures
- Green Exercise Can Improve Physical and Mental Health
- Genetically Modified Ingredients in Most US Cheeses
- Nazi Coal “Butter”
- Working Together
- How Food-as-Medicine Supporters Are Responding to Kellogg CEO’s ‘Let Them Eat Flakes’ Remarks
- PFAS “Forever Chemicals” Found in Deodorants — Guide
- Your Body Already Has a Built-in Weight Loss System That Works Like Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro – Food and Your Gut Microbiome
- Turn off Excess Lighting During the Months Migrating Birds Are Flying Overhead
- March Against Gain-of-Function
- Other Essential Reading and Videos for the Week
Give Bees a Chance leaflet
Give Bees a Chance bumper stickerRecommended Resources:
- Pesticide Action Network
- Xerces Society Report: How Neonics Can Kill Bees
- The Ultimate Guide to Beekeeping
- FOE’s National Retail and Wholesale Nursery Commitments with Policy Statements
- Beyond Pesticides Bee Protective Resources
- The Xerces Center for Invertebrate Conservation
- Friends of the Earth Bee Action Campaign
- Become a Bee City USA
- Bee Against Monsanto on Facebook
Video Library
Pollen for Food – A Solitary Solution
Neonicotinoids: The New DDT?
Marla Spivak: Why bees are disappearing
Managing Garden Insects Begins with a Question: Friend or Foe?
News You Can Use: Attracting Pollinators
Queen of The Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (Trailer)
Making the Switch: Eldredge Lumber and Hardware
Bee’s Swarm Ace and True Value
Reverend Billy + the Stop-Shopping Choir: The Honeybeelujah Show
Gardeners Beware
Vanishing of the Bees – Trailer
Give Bees A Chance Song
Beneficial Insects in the Garden
Farming for Beneficial Insects: Pollinators, Predators and Parasitoids
Save Our Bees with Moby