Friday, June 1, 2012

Bee Keepers Prepare to sue EPA

I am torn I want to believe that the pesticides are what are killing the bees, but I have a feeling that it won't be that easy to find the answer to the loss of bee's. I think that in all probability there a several factors and one of which may be the use of pesticides. So while I want to side with the people suing the EPA I also understand that big farms need to use some sort of pesticide or they will not be able to make the money they need to survive. It is too easy to paint all pesticides with the same brush and label them all as evil when they definitely play a part in our need for food. As the population grows we have a greater and greater need for more and more food. If we lose all of our crops to insects we fall farther and farther behind in what we need for the masses. I think that one has to look at both sides when considering this issue. Many studies have been done on if this pesticide harms bees and so far it has been proven that it has not. I think that for the time being it is better to use the best pesticide that we have rather than use nothing. But I also think that we need to try and find better alternatives for the future and that we need to find out what is killing all our bees because without them there is no us.

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