Read the information about the bee crisis here: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/28/bees-death-destroy-food-supply.aspx?e_cid=20120128_DNL_art_1
A feeling of helplessness can overwhelm people when they read about an extremely important, worldwide environmental crisis, because the issue is so big. Remember, a million small steps can get us as far as one huge step, and is easier to accomplish in one’s own life.
Here are a few small suggestions that people can use to help turn things around:
1. Stop using pesticides of any kind on one’s own lawns, flowers, fruit trees and vegetable gardens. Companies will only switch to healthier alternatives if we hit them where it hurts, in the checkbook.
2. Consider supporting alternative political parties that espouse keeping our environment livable. For example, support the Green Party, whose platform revolves around safe business practices, and a healthy environment.
3. Join an online organization called Change.org and start a petition to have that fake Chinese honey banned from US stores.
4. Choose charitable organizations that fight for environmental laws, like NRDC. The money you contribute is tax deductible, and these lawyers are fighting for environmental issues such as: saving natural areas, protecting endangered species, banning bad business practices, like fracking, protecting the use of renewable energy, and much more.
Let me give credit where credit is due, this whole Bee topic came about after reading a blog post this morning written by my buddy, Bob Carlson.
Here is the original post: http://rlcarlson.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/bee-healthy-eat-your-honey/
Wow!! What a compelling story! I buy all of my honey directly from the Beekeepers – KlauseBees. I pick up 16 honeystraws every Friday for my health at the Monrovia Street Festival. My brother buys it there, too. I will NEVER again use store bought honey! Thanks for sharing this very important article, Di! Love, Terrie<3
Terrie, I’ve been following this story for over a year now, it turns out that 80% of our food is pollinated by bees, so if huge farms don’t stop using pesticides, we may all eventually feel the pinch of starvation. I think the pesticide companies are in cahoots with the GMO seed producers, who basically want to control all the food supply through ownership of the only crops that will grow with the pesticides sprayed on them (GMO foods). Sounds like my sci-fi novel is chillingly changing from fiction to reality, doesn’t it?