Burlington County Times – Thursday, November
28, 2007
CBS reporter Steve Kroft reported on the Oct. 28
“60 Minutes” about the disappearance of bees.
He said, “For growing fruit, vegetables/nuts you need soil, sun, seeds,
water and honeybees — millions of honeybees to pollinate crops.”
David Hackenberg, the honeybee farmer, says
farmers depend on renting his bees.
This year, 90 percent of Hackenberg's bee
population died. He says the widespread use of chemical pesticides is the
suspected cause.
Other honeybee farmers reported the same devastating story.
Farmers can't pollinate fruit/vegetable crops without bees. Will this effect the 2008 dinner tables?
Townships want to use the chemical Dimilin against
gypsy moths. Did they explain what effect more toxins have on all insects/
environment? It's banned many places, because it's toxic.
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I got introduced to a product called Natures Wonder.
It is university tested (Rutgers, Virginia Tech,
Going from leaf to leaf looking for food, the gypsy moths starve to death.
This organic substance is recovered from
Dimilin will kill millions upon millions of
micro/macro organisms, and have a domino effect on thousands of other things.
Will we have pollination in 2008? Can we chance our food supply? Can we live
in a sterile world?
Judith Mudrak