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Bee Aware, Beware!

by: YippieAgain

Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 12:53:14 PM PDT

(Bees matter. - promoted by Asinus Asinum Fricat)

We garden, both vegetables and flowers, and have for many years.  Some years, the yields are great, some years not so much; such it is with gardening.  Sometimes it's the weather and sometimes it's the deer (once a moose!) that have clobbered our garden.  Ordinarily, on average, we do pretty well.  That isn't true this year.
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Bayer Sued For Murder (of Bees)

by: Jill Richardson

Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 11:00:00 AM PDT

I just love it when other countries do what America won't do. In this case, a German group, Coalition Against Bayer Dangers, filed a suit against Bayer CropScience for killing the bees.

The group accuses Bayer CropScience of "marketing dangerous pesticides and thereby accepting the mass death of bees all over the world."

The coalition filed the charge in cooperation with German beekeepers who claim they lost thousands of hives after poisoning by the Bayer pesticide clothianidin in May.

Details below.

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