Bees

Piers Morgan has taken fire at vegans claiming they 'don't care' about the billions of bees and insects that are killed by the commercial farming of avocados and almonds. The Good Morning Britain presenter scrutinised the methods by which popular food items …

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Ghosts of land use past haunt current biodiversity in farmland ecosystems, according to a new study led by a researcher from the German Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre. The study on farmlands in southwestern France shows that changes from…

MIAMI (AP) Vanilla has an undeserved reputation for being blah, as in plain vanilla, the flavor for people who consider chocolate too daring. The truth is a vanilla bean is an exotic thing the only edible fruit of the orchid family and an essential ingredien…

The Asian honey bee (Apis cerana) has been found in Cairns. It's just one of the introduced bees buzzing under the radar. Tobias Smith, Author provided Bees get a lot of good press. They pollinate our crops and in some cases, make delicious honey. But bees ar…

Keeping track of climate change should come with a health advisory: You should have a high threshold for anxiety and dread. Because, in case you havent heard, the news isnt good. 2019 started with fires ravaging California, and ends with fires ravaging Austr…

Why have 500 million bees died in Brazil in the past three months?" was the dramatic headline in The Guardian on 29 August. On 16 October, the BBC published a news article headlined 21 Species In North Ireland At The Risk Of Extinction. In a piece on 22 March…

In a resolution adopted yesterday, the European Parliament called on the EU executive Commission to beef up its Pollinators Initiative, saying EU-wide mandatory pesticide reduction targets are needed to halt the decline in species. The European Commission in…

In a resolution adopted on Wednesday, Parliament welcomes the EU Pollinators Initiative, but highlights that, as it stands, it fails to protect bees and other pollinators from some of the many causes of their decline, including intensive farming, pesticides, …

Pualle14/12/2019 13:39It certainly is.Most fruit and veg isn't vegan, due to the use of farm It certainly is.Most fruit and veg isn't vegan, due to the use of farm animal manure, bees wax, the exploitation of bees for pollination, use of worms in the growing …