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Old 04-20-2008, 09:39 PM
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More unsettling news about honeybees

Information I hadn't encountered in previous articles:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/19/MNBR107C59.DTL&hw=bees&sn=001&sc=1000

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Old 04-20-2008, 10:15 PM
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Great ... now fruit and nut prices are going to spike.
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From reading the article, it sounds like farm subsidies (including ethanol) are a significant contributor to the farmer behaviors that are likely to be causing the decline in pollinators. Once again, government is not the solution to a problem-government IS the problem.

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