Europe it turns out that

a massive amount of honeybees are dying off and for the longest time researchers

can figure out what it was

and you also have up certain pesticide companies

pushing this narrative that hey you know what there are multiple reasons for why

this is happening

kinda to shift focus away from pesticides and focus more on

loss of habitat certain viruses that the bees could be suffering from

and that's not to discount that those are possibilities but

it turns out the pesticides according to a new study have a huge part in a huge

role

in colony collapse disorder so I it was a harvard researcher that looked into it

looked into this his name is Chen saying lou and here's when he found out he was

working with nearby beekeepers

and the Harvard researcher and his team treat it well colonies with tiny levels

up something known as New York Knicks or communicate annoyed

pesticides and they kept six control hives free

on the popular chemicals all 18 hives made it their summer

without any apparent trouble come winter though the bees in six

the treated hives vanished leaving behind a bee colonies the classic

behaviour colony collapse disorder

yet so basically at the control group he had you know that the group hives that

were being treated

with the pesticide overexposed to the pesticides and he saw that look

while they were %uh exposed to pesticides during the summertime

it was totally fine nothing happened but then come winter

everything changed they've decided to abandon are the hives which is very

rare that's not supposed to happen yep yeah and add so as he said this is like

that it's very methodologically sound he responded some other earlier criticism

that said to be a little harder for the pesticide industry

to say you know don't pay attention with this guy did now but there've been

studies going back

10-12 years showing that these pesticides do have a negative effect

unbearable often will have their own scientists come out and say oh

yeah you can kill the pesticides critics certain amount with other side to show

that one to 100

is actually in up and and this is what happens when you allow

that companies are vested interested to govern

you know what what policies we have in terms the spread is pesticides and if

such as

you know we'll ever be is our life and a honey like bees and other insects like

that are used to pollinate three-quarters of all the crops we

consume as humans this is

this is a matter of life and death for cancellations LA

better and Syngenta are the two companies behind other pesticides that

are being used to treat our crops

and you know what their intentions are probably good to begin with I mean at

this point I mean what do you what

ida look the pesticides debate is obviously complicated

but you want to ensure that the crops grow without the fear of

past getting in there and destroying everything I understand that

yet but if you have evidence indicated these pesticides lead to

be is just dying of it's a disaster and just one quick point

up this year beekeepers in Ohio really felt it they reported a winter loss

up 52 eighty percent of their beans so it's a problem for sure

go ahead yeah well I'm glad you brought up that point about why this is

important to us because there's something called the food chain and

these are the bottom

but they are incredibly important for everything that works its way up to us

because if the plants don't pollinate and then animals don't graze I mean

you know it it's pretty obvious what's going on here so we need to be concerned

about this

and by the way you know we used to have its best this as a fire retardant in

school then they found out that causes cancer

so it is it that it doesn't take a great leap of faith to think that maybe these

pesticides they say could cause

I neurological function to drop in the

yeah memory problems admission so they'll it's not just that they're dying

they actually are just leaving Wally go let me think that they're leaving the

carneys

and they don't even know where they're supposed to return to yeah and

so we really really is terrible and it will affect so this is the type thing

that we're talking about

right any basis in science much like climate change that we were talking

about earlier

absolutely and again that's not to discount be the notion that lawsuit have

a top plays a role as well I think it definitely does

but to say that the pesticides don't play a role in to listen to what these

corporations are telling us about the pesticides doesn't make sense either

you there have been a number so use this is just another one to top it off

and in this particular study the methodology is sound and I love that you

brought that up John

and bear actually responded to it here's what they had to say

feeding honey bees levels at neonicotinoids greater than 10 times

what they would normally encounter is more than unrealistic

it is deceptive and represents a disservice to genuine scientific

investigation related to honey bee help

so they're basically alleging that he used way too much of the past the side

while he was doing a study buddy says

no that's an absolute lie here's what his response was

in an email Lu disputed this attack he noted that the dose use point 74

micrograms per be per day over thirteen weeks

is actually quite tiny by contrast a grain of table salt ways

64,000 800 micrograms Jesus

yeah I mean I look we have to just people you're gonna believe there are

they telling the truth there is he trying to they can't agree with this

site is rather than the corporation's property for

as this app it doesn't always get the I'm

yet we we need is saying about this on I'm glad we're finally doing we went

right we literally said to me

we've been trying to do the story for weeks right yeah I mean yeah

gary has been around since 2006 I kid you not that when we first started

noticing

I'm colony collapse disorder and and people are wondering what it was

and actually Harvard has been studying this

extensively and there have been questions about you know the

accuracy or that the legitimacy of the methodology

but now we finally have a study where you know most scientists have looked

into it say

yeah this looks like sound methodology it makes sense

it's time to actually do something about it for a brief period of time

Europe actually banned the use of this pesticide

I think that they actually lifted the ban I'm not entirely sure about that

up but we need to figure out what what we're gonna do that's when it comes to

this because it is destroying agriculture in the united states. we

need bees bees to pollinate their crops

yeah unending bears basically just playing a waiting game I think that they

think that they just wait two or three more years there'll be no more be is

left to experiment on

man they want to deal with her