Sustainable Honeybees

 

No Honeybees = Dramatic Loss of Food Production

AS MORE DEMAND FOR FOOD IS CREATED,

THERE WILL BE LESS SUPPLY.

THIS IS DUE TO THE LOSS OF OUR POLLINATORS



BeeCrisis.org has submitted pollinator zone maps to local officials outlining and emphasizing our local food security risk and creating a way to encourage local honeybee population growth and protection. Our local pollinator sanctuary map and proposal is divided into zones within the unusually beautiful and close-in market gardens surrounding Eugene Oregon, these premium organic food producers are what make Eugene so unique, and it comes as no surprise that Oregon is now listed as the top ‘move to ‘ area in the Nation. We need to protect our food production for future generations. Eugene made the national news as the first “Bee Friendly City” in the USA when it banned the use of neonicotinoid insecticides.


WHO’S CONCERNED?

  1. •THE PRESIDENT

  2. •OUR DEFENSE DEPT.

  3. •MAJOR GROCERY STORE CHAINS

  4. •FARMERS & THE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

  5. •OTHER COUNTRIES

  6. •AMERICA’S LARGEST SEED COMPANY


“Cross-pollination helps at least 30 percent of the world’s crops and 90 percent of our wild plants to thrive. Without bees to spread seeds, many plants—including food crops—would die off.”  


Quote from the Bee Fact Sheet. Please see our Honeybee Links page for the Latest Honeybee News on Honeybee decline.



“No Fable of the Bees Here; The Critters Are in Trouble”

Wall Street Journal

AUG 5th


The number of managed honeybee colonies in the U.S. has dropped from four million hives in 1970 to just 2.5 million today.

“The link to neonicotinoid insecticides grows clearer by the day. Bees are insects, after all. The Environmental Protection Agency classifies neonics as "highly toxic to bees." Earlier this month, an international committee of 29 scientists, the Task Force on Systemic Pesticides, examined over 800 peer-reviewed papers and concluded that some neonics are 5,000 to 10,000 times more acutely toxic to bees than DDT, and that chronic exposure to the levels they would find in the field can impair bees' memory, breeding ability and foraging and food collection.

Denying the bee decline problem is no way to solve it.

Jennifer B. Sass, Ph.D.Natural Resources

Defense Council

Washington

READ the Full Article HERE

WHOLEFOODS MARKET PUBLISHED THIS PICTURE:


WHAT YOUR SUPER MARKET SHELVES WOULD LOOK LIKE WITHOUT HONEY BEES TO POLLINATE THE CROPS

As a designer who worked on major redesigns of Safeway, Albertsons, Calgary Co-Ops, Henrys and Falletti’s,

I feel that this photo has deep implications.

Not only are the shelves bare, but the demand for the remaining food will be tripled.

This is the “food security issue” that is being discussed at the presidential level.


Markets can’t survive on empty or barren floor space.

Mortgage and lease obligations must be met by profit, not a loss of volume.

Contraction of market chains and locations due to less food items are one possibility, along with other possibilities that

don’t bear mentioning.


We must act now to protect our pollinators or face nation wide food security consequences.


Diane Schell-Engdahl


SustainableHoneyBees.com



 

PHOTO ABOVE USED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, PHOTO CREDIT: MARKETING DIVISION WHOLEFOODS

BEE 101

TO GET AN IDEA OF THE SCOPE of THE PROBLEM,. LOOK AT WHAT WHOLE FOODS IS DOING  (picture below)


Notice RECENT STEPS TAKEN BY PRESIDENT OBAMA such as the creation of the POLLINATOR HEALTH TASK FORCE PLANS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN UP BY EACH STATE.


READ ABOUT THE USDA SUDDENLY INVESTING MILLIONS TO PROTECT THE BEES IN SOUTH DAKOTA and awarding over 6 Million now to MSU.



The Bee Crisis = a CROP Crisis.

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