Roundup, responsible for bee colony collapse

[bob10]

Why Monsanto's 'Cure' for World Hunger is Cursing the Global Food Supply | Wake Up World

[Chucaro]

Today the bees tomorrow the humans as a result of poisoning the ecosystem

[oldyella 76]

Just another hype against Monsanto. More glyphosate is produced in China now than anywhere else, all the generic brands which outsell the original don't come from Monsanto. They are trying to keep ahead of the market by using different salts ect. to put a differential in the market. The most used products are the generic brands such as Apparent, Kenup, Kenup Gold and a host of others. It has proven to be one of the safest and cheapest chemicals for general weed control in the market that allows farmers to produce cheap food in an efficient manner. It amasses me that they will all pick on Monsanto, not sure if is against big business, agriculture or just pro organic.
And remember according to the C.S.I.R.O. if the world went organic, our food production would drop by 30% as a result of not enough soil nutrients and competition from weeds using the available soil nutrients and moisture.
Lindsay.

[Lionelgee]

Hello All,

I don't want to be alarmist. However, I would encourage all direct naming of a specific product's tradename and direction mention of the name of a very large international company to be removed very quickly from this thread.

These people employ lots of lawyers to protect their company's name and their products. Use of the term Glyphosate would be fine as it is now a generic chemical produced by lots of companies. As this current thread stands the lawyers could come gunning for AULRO.

Kind Regards
Lionel

[JDNSW]

Rather unlikely, seeing that the only mention is a link and a post decrying the contents of that link.

John

[PhilipA]

In Australia we use a lot of Glyphosate, but I think luckily there is so much natural forest that bees can be kept in areas away from glyphosate areas.
I guess places like Moree may have a real problem in future, but even there is the Mt Kaputa National park and forest areas.

When I was the NSW Ag Organics rep, about the easiest thing to grow organically was honey, as you had to set up the hives in a forest a set distance form any agriculture. This was usually in State forests.

I recall the biggest problem the industry had in NSW was that beekeepers would smuggle Queens in from countries infested with Foulbrood and it became a real problem for Australia to export queens to the middle east as the Foulbrood spread to many hives in NSW.

I personally made a deal with the UAE for NSW Ag to declare Foulbrood free areas to allow export of Queens from NSW.

So while Glyphosate is a big problem it is not the ONLY problem with the current decline in bee numbers. Members of the industry itself are causing grief.
I can see a real problem in Europe, the USA,etc where there is not much natural land left , but again in Oz we are pretty lucky.
Regards Philip A

[Chucaro]

Just another hype against Monsanto. ........
Lindsay.

The forum rules do not allow me to reply in a proper manner to your post

[Chucaro]

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I personally made a deal with the UAE for NSW Ag to declare Foulbrood free areas to allow export of Queens from NSW.

So while Glyphosate is a big problem it is not the ONLY problem with the current decline in bee numbers. Members of the industry itself are causing grief.
I can see a real problem in Europe, the USA,etc where there is not much natural land left , but again in Oz we are pretty lucky.
Regards Philip A

At the end of the day all comes to plain greed

[brettphillips43]

Good to see people waking up. Sad to see that there are still so many Schills living in arogance. Monsanto is a major poisoner of the planet. Right along with Bill and Melinda Gates.with regards to food production dropping by 30%, maybe we should have supported local farmers when they needed our help. Go listen online to some of the people onTruth Freuency Radio.com . Thats one of many places to learn about whats really goin on around the world.

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[incisor]

whats poor old bill doing wrong now?