EPA and Bayer Sued for Bee Deaths

Researched by Kerry Headley

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has evidence of connections between pesticides and the mysterious honey bee die-offs known as “colony collapse disorder” reported across the US, according to leading bee experts and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC.) The NRDC sued when the EPA refused to disclose the results of studies concerning the toxicity of neonicotinoids — a new class of insecticides manufactured by Bayer CropScience that impact the central nervous system of insects. Both Germany and France banned similar neonicotinoids due to concerns about their impact on bees. A German coalition filed charges against Bayer claiming they lost thousands of hives after poisoning by the pesticide clothianidin. Colony collapse disorder has claimed more than one-third of honey bees in the US since it was first identified in 2006. In France, approximately 90 billion bees died over the past 10 years, reducing honey production by up to 60 percent. EPA has failed to respond to NRDC’s Freedom of Information Act request for agency records concerning the toxicity of pesticides to bees, forcing the legal action.

“EPA Buzz Kill: Is the Agency Hiding Colony Collapse Information?” Josh Mogerman, Natural Resource Defense Council.org, 8/18/2008 http://www.nrdc.org/media/2008/080818a.asp

“German Coalition Sues Bayer over Pesticide Honey Bee Deaths” Environmental News Service, ENS Newswire.com, 8/26/2008 http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2008/2008-08-25-01.asp

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  • http://thirty-thousand.org Wm. McDevitt

    Harry Sheerer Reported on his Program ‘La Show’ somtime in December of this year that, the Dept of Agriculture reported that the MEGA hive die offs were caused by a toxin that is created by the pasteurizing of HFCS this is toxic to the bees in large concentrations. This would explain why it’s only the Mega hives that have been having problems. (They are fed HFCS exclusively.
    At last years slow food fest at the agriculture museum in New Brunswick NJ all (And We asked them all) the people who keep bees that were at the fest. Most of the local small farmers do keep bees. told when asked about this to My wife and me that their hives were fine and show no problems.
    This was also the case with a few farmers who not only kept hives for their own farm but transported them to other farms for fertilization of their fruit crops.
    This is only occuring in the extreamly large hives. Factory farming does not produce the best of the best but destroyies the land for all.

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  • Dr Mon A Santos

    Yes, it is perfectly normal for mass bee die offs to occur, our studies prove that heavy metal music played outdoors is actually the underlying cause. No company really profits off supply decreases to demand increases, our company just wouldn’t do that it is not our moral character. All of these reports are lies, bees are reproducing faster than ever.

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  • Ashkenazi

    Dr Mon.. bullshit. when will scientist living in theory .. realize this is biology matrix world ?

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  • trigger2

    What a tragedy. People will buy garbage like “Round Up” cause they are too lazy to bend over and pull a weed out of their own dam driveway. How on earth did we ever have such productive farmers in this country prior to the development of toxic chemicals? Could it ‘bee’ that they actually understood the connections between living organisms? The bees are dying because they don’t have enough food in their hive to sustain them over the winter months, the loss of natural habitat and chemicals. I am convinced this has been done on purpose, pretty soon people will not be able to grow their own food stuff, or go off the grid. The govt. will control all food production in conjunction with the factory farms.

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  • http://hellaheaven-ana.blogspot.com Ana

    Many labs were sued because of human deaths caused by medicines. The mainstream media don’t publish about it for obvious reasons.
    Hmmm… I thought you were bolder.

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  • chris

    To Ana, if we got no more bees, we got no more food, then we will see human deaths.

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  • http://www.bariumblues.com Dave Murphy

    ANOTHER BEE KILLER!!!

    What in the world are they spraying FULL-LENGTH

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0khstYDLA

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  • anon

    The US government is becoming increasingly secretive. No wonder it hates WikiLeaks. Tyrannies cannot thrive without secrecy. Truth tellers are akin to terrorists in the U.S.A.. Pacifists too are dangerous.

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  • Bhoodlum

    So is anyone going to bomb Bayer’s headquarters for their many crimes against the planet? The time for militancy has arrived. The system protects these mass murderers. Kill the government and we free humanity.

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