Do y'all remember about a year ago when all the world was abuzz (pun intended) because of the apparently dying and disappearing Honey Bees all over the world. It was big news with a capital "B". Albert Einstein's famous quote that 'should the honey bee become extinct, mankind would be only four years behind' ..... rang loud in our ears. Cell phones were blamed, as were El Quada, and pesticides.
Now I ain't a big fan of the UK's Guardian Newspaper, particularly it's U.S. bashing, left leaning political news pages -- but I came across a pretty comprehensive article regarding the world situation bee-wise in a recent issue. It seems as if the problem is partly based on systemic (that means they grow inside the leaves and stems as the plant grows Luke!) insecticides being used around the planet and of all things ------ the bees being overworked and stressed out by the professional beekeepers!
The article is WAY too long to paste in here and I didn't want to try to edit it for brevity 'cause I know that the intellectually curious Pilgrims that drop in here regularly will want to read (or at least have access to) the whole article. So I have linked it below.
But I still wonder --- how come this serious problem has dropped off the public radar screen. You don't reckon that the public's short attention span has caused MSM to worry more about Linsey Lohan's peculiar habits and Branjolina's twins do you?
Anyway here it the link:
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