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 — April 11, 2024
Newsletter #846: Don’t Give Up Control Over Public Health to the WHO!
In This Issue:
- Tell Your State Legislators: Don’t Give Up Control Over Public Health to the World Health Organization
- Cut Down on Plastic in the Kitchen: 30+ DIY Condiments to Stop Buying
- Our Forgotten Sacred Relationship with Food
- Grocery & Produce Brand Policies on Apeel
- EPA’s New Rules Require Utilities To Reduce Toxic Chemicals in Drinking Water
- Barefoot Biodynamics
- Imagining A Greater Organic Reset
- The Science of Bone Broth and Collagen
- Every Light Impacts the Night
- Make Dandelion Lemonade
- 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