Our nation’s number one food security guards, honeybees, are dying by the thousands. In recent years, nearly one third of commercial bee colonies in the U.S. have died during the winter months. In Oregon last summer roughly 50,000 bumblebees dropped dead due to exposure to a pesticide sprayed on trees for purely aesthetic purposes. The situation is so bad that people are dubbing it the Bee-pocalypse One third of the food produced in North America, including nearly 100 varieties of fruits and vegetables like apples, pumpkins, cranberries, and avocados, rely on honeybees for pollination -- we can’t afford to lose them. Luckily, Congress can do something about it -- pass a bill (H.R. 2692) to protect our honeybees by temporarily banning certain pesticides. But they will only do it if we speak out now.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:33:33 +0000
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