To bee or not to bee

"To be, or not to be..."
What has a famous line Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, got to do with bees and farming.
Well, we all know that the bees are disappearing because of the nionicotinoids impacting the bee colony collapse.  The eventual collapse of bees would fit in very nicely to this quote and force us to ask ourselves how long will survive if bees are not to bee anymore. Here is a famous Albert Einstein who sums up our own collapse very succinctly.

It was also Einstein who said every action will result in an equal and opposite reaction. If we don't start saving the bees now through various simple, sustainable and safe methods, then we will deal with the reaction that we receive because of our folly against Mother Nature.

Round up, Round up, not for sale until further notice.

A recent decision by the influential Environment committee on the European Parliament will mean that sales of chemical fertiliser, Glysophate, will be prohibited until there safety for health can be confirmed.

Due to the fact that glysophate is sprayed into the soil before wheat seeds have even been sown is raising new concerns. Recent studies have show that the intolerance to gluten can now be traced not so much to the gluten but more due to the glysophate that is now becoming part of the nutrition in the wheat flour and that which then goes into our bread.

Looking at this problem from the farmers perspective reveals a major taboo of unspoken suicide rates.  An insurmountable of evidence has shown that 5 farmers commit suicide every month in the uk due to financial stress and market uncertainty due to Europe agriculture policy and pressure from supermarkets. The farmers take to drinking the glysophate that they use for there farms, to drink it themselves for the ultimate sacrifice of there own lives. The problem is much bigger in India where 10 farmers in one sate commit suicide everyday

The vote was won by a huge majority of 38 votes to 6, with 18 abstentions.  This is quite a testament to the uncertainty that governments want to risk with public and environmental health.