Big agriculture is killing our bees. We’ll all pay the price | Jennie Durant
We’re thinking about the crisis facing pollinators all wrong. And we’ve come to a crucial moment Last winter, commercial beekeepers lost more than 60% of their colonies – their worst losses on record. We tend to blame bee losses on separate, singular threats: pests, pesticides, habitat loss or extreme weather. But we’ve been thinking about bee losses wrong. The real culprit is our industrial food system. Continue reading...
We’re thinking about the crisis facing pollinators all wrong. And we’ve come to a crucial moment Last winter, commercial beekeepers lost more than 60% of their colonies – their worst losses on record. We tend to blame bee losses on separate, singular threats: pests, pesticides, habitat loss or extreme weather. But we’ve been thinking about bee losses wrong. The real culprit is our industrial food system. Continue reading...
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