Wednesday, April 22, 2015



FLOW NO!

 Convenience for the beekeeper but not for the bees. 


I really wanted to get on board with this idea, but for me, beekeeping is for them more than for me. Although you are not opening up the entire hive, you are still breaking the comb which they then have to repair every time you extract your honey, and I suspect for lazy beekeepers who just want honey, it will be a novel idea to keep extracting while not actually seeing the stress that it causes inside. I believe it is best to leave them alone and let them do their thing. Making comb is part of their process and I don't think we should mess with it. The less we interfere, I think, the better.



http://www.milkwood.net/2015/02/26/going-flow-flow-hive-actually-good-idea/ 


"It’s the same with chickens! If you put a chicken in a small cage and do not let it move so that all it does is eat and lay…. you get more eggs.
We seem to be deciding as a society, however, that for chickens, ethics may come before profits."




Monday, April 20, 2015

Thousands of acres of native wildflowers have been replaced by chemical laden monocultures, eliminating the diversity and nutrition that the bees (and other species -- and people) depend on. 

 http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/article1545750.ece

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/article1545750.ece
Looks like a beautiful field of corn, right? Wrong! It is GMO corn grown with mega chemicals and used for bio-fuel or cattle feed. Totally inedible to us, and a total waste of time, energy, resources, and the environment -- and is killing the soil. It is because of THIS and other "experimental" industrial farming practices that bees and other species are dying off.

BEE AWARE

Things are NOT always what they seem.





Wednesday, April 8, 2015



 
"Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup®, is the most popular herbicide used worldwide. The industry asserts it is minimally toxic to humans, but here we argue otherwise. Residues are found in the main foods of the Western diet, comprised primarily of sugar, corn, soy and wheat. Glyphosate's inhibition of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes is an overlooked component of its toxicity to mammals. CYP enzymes play crucial roles in biology, one of which is to detoxify xenobiotics. Thus, glyphosate enhances the damaging effects of other food borne chemical residues and environmental toxins. Negative impact on the body is insidious and manifests slowly over time as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body. Here, we show how interference with CYP enzymes acts synergistically with disruption of the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids by gut bacteria, as well as impairment in serum sulfate transport. Consequences are most of the diseases and conditions associated with a Western diet, which include gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer's disease. We explain the documented effects of glyphosate and its ability to induce disease, and we show that glyphosate is the "textbook example" of exogenous semiotic entropy: the disruption of homeostasis by environmental toxins..."


did Monsanto know about the dangers of glyphosate 35 years ago?




http://sustainablepulse.com/2015/03/21/who-declares-that-glyphosate-herbicides-probably-cause-cancer/