Comments on: Researchers Link Viruses, Genes and Pesticides to Bee Colony Collapse http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2370 News on pesticide science, policy and activism Thu, 16 May 2013 16:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bud DIngler http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2370#comment-84904 Bud DIngler Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:48:40 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2370#comment-84904 The fact that 90% of the bees lost to CCD were from Industrial Feedlot beekeeping operations should put this into perspective.

Too often these reports on bees leave the reader thinking wow this i serious environmental crisis while in reality if you read that the poultry and hogs from CAFO operations were dying no one would think twice about it.

Aprox 1500 beekeepers own or control 70% of the nations hives and move them around frequently for the owners benefits not always for the honeybees best interest.

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