Article 76735 Big agriculture is killing our bees. We’ll all pay the price | Jennie Durant

Big agriculture is killing our bees. We’ll all pay the price | Jennie Durant

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Jennie Durant
from US news | The Guardian on (#76735)

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.

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