Quote Originally Posted by Asilynne View Post
(I took a beekeeping course)
Get some fucking honeybees then. I understand that extinction is a natural and inevitable part of our world but I don't think enough people realize just how fucked our agriculture is if the common honeybee dies out. Yes, we can survive it, but a lot of plants would take hits, from light to devastating.

Quote Originally Posted by Magmar View Post
I don't know about the rest of y'all U.S. Americans on the forum, but my backyard has loads of bees. I always try to let them bee (bad pun is bad) and there's a bumblebee nest under my hot tub... which is fine. I don't use it anyway!
Bumblebees are part of the Bombus genus. Honeybees, the Apis genus. I've seen fat fuzzy bumblebees myself this year, but literally zero of the poor European honeybee.

I go along with capitalism as best as I can, but this is shit you guys should know and pass along. Monsanto isn't 'just another evil/uncaring corporation.' They want to monopolize food itself. They eliminate all possible competition - from smaller farmers and producers with their absurd 'legal' tactics, and from nature itself with poisons so potent that even the humans their shit is made for are negatively affected as a result.

And the scariest part is that they're rich enough to not only do it, but also to do so with impunity and silence any who try to call them out.

GMO's aren't inherently bad.
Big business isn't inherently bad.

But a big business that lies about what you eat and threatens you if you investigate it yourself is pretty damn bad.