What Will You Do If FOOD Supplies Are Threatened By The Honeybee Die Off ?

Question

I asked a similar question months ago and got laughed at and scoffed . Not so funny now is it !
Months ago many bee-keepers in the USA had reported losses of up to 50% of their bees due to this mysterious blight . Now, according to the Yahoo News Story, bee-keepers in the USA are reporting further losses of about 25% on top of the previous losses . And no end or solution in sight .

This is not only a political issue. . .it's a life or death issue for many of us here and around the world . Do yourself a BIG favor and read the story before you comment . This ain't funny anymore .

Not only produce prices will be affected, but many companies use those same produce ingredients in their products .

What will you do to plan for possible shortages and price prohibitive products ?
Do you believe there could be a Biblical connection ?

BTW, Congress has already held meetings on this issue . Read the Yahoo News Story .

Pip - It WAS only a North American problem, but now Brazil and Europe are affected . Besides , we grow the largest percentage of the WORLD's food supply !! Think about that for awhile !!

I asked another question about biblical passages connected to this . Check out my profile for the entire list of answers , but you can start with Matthew 24 and Joel 1 .

Answer 1

Advise.... When we face a crisis that may be of Biblical proportion, it is then time to face the fact that we are only man, The creation of God, Hold your family near and dear, and know that he will not forsake you.

Answer 2

I don't think most people realize that without bee's and their cross pollination we lose a large bit of our food supply.... do I think it is biblical? no.. do I think it is a serious issue? yes.... I know Europe has been hit with the same disease/environmental/parasite/they don't know for sure what... that has been killing our bees but I'm not sure that South America has.... maybe in the end they will try to import from down there?? I'm not sure.. It's going to be hard for those in the NE where the bees have been hit the hardest though.. that's for sure. Also.. I think their is a healthy bee supply in California and pretty much nothing can cross the desert to infest them.. so it may take a few years to rebound.. but we have ways to revitalize our bee population.


<> Yeah, I know we grow a lot of the worlds food.. heck the state I live in is the Rice Capital :P It won't be pretty.. and there will be a lot of starvation if the current trend continues... but in the end I believe science or nature will prevail and the natural balance will be restored... lots of people may die in the process.. especially if nature has to be the one to restore the balance... but if that ends up being the case there is truly nothing we can do other than prepare as best we can... fortunately due to genetic diversity there will be some bees that make it threw this and life will go on.. but lets hope science finds the answer to this problem before that :)

Answer 3

This is a very serious issue that I have been following for some time. Still no one knows the cause of the problem or any potential solution. The ripple effect of a honey bee shortage is incredible. I never realized all of the crops that are dependant on bees. I doubt there is a Biblical connection, but it is a very serious problem. It could be a cyclical cause or a climate cause, but no one is sure.

Answer 4

there is been an ongoing decline interior the type of untamed honeybees for years, yet now something is hitting those that beekeepers shop. there's a clean disease, a minimum of right here on the East Coast, that's killing them. I even have by no ability heard the cellular tower argument or that bees weren't returning to the hive. Bees do not often pass greater suitable than 2 miles or so from the hive for nutrition. I doubt the bee decline is for this reason of cellular towers.

Answer 5

We will have to apply some of out vast scientific knowledge and ability to figure why the bees are dying off, and then how to help them. In the mean time, solutions to the other problems will have to get some attention. The world has suffered plagues and famines before, as well as massive die-offs when mother Earth had a rash of volcanoes or got smacked by an asteroid. Life will go on and recover and Nature will replace us with another species.

Answer 6

As concerning as the Bee-die off is, this is not the first time such a thing has happened. Mass Bee extinctions have happened in the 60's and the 70's.

Thankfully we have many scientists studying this problem, once they know what is causing this, they will release their findings.

Personally, I believe that the cause of the die-off are probably a parasite or an infection. It is also possible that electromagnetic interference is causing it. There are many studies going on now.

I don't think now is the time to panic, we should wait at least until next season to see if this disorder persists.

Answer 7

I'm with ya. Albert Einstein once said that if we lost the honey bees, we would have about 4 years left. If there is a Biblical connection, I would like to know where I can find it.
I think most people just think bees make honey. They have no idea what else they do. Good question.

Answer 8

I was very concerned about this when I first heard the story on NPR. While it's currently being presented as a reduction in the available foods, there is a great potential for a complete collapse of our food supply. Nothing exists in a vacuum and the potential ripple effects are frightening.

My plan is to rotate my stock of emergency supplies, like I always do. I plan to have a little garden this summer and preserve what I can. I plan on eating less commercially produced food and going to the farmers market more. I won't use pesticides on my lawn and will eat organically as much as possible. I can't change what's happening, but I can adjust my behavior to try and lessen my footprint.

Answer 9

There was a study done in Denmark about cell phone radiation emissions. No one gave it much credibility because it was the same group that said we were all going to get brain cancer from cell phones.
Then a very credible U.S. scientist did an extensive study and he came up with the same results. Honey Bees will abandon their hives if it is exposed to the smallest amount of radiation. Cell phones emit enough to drive bees away. They wont come back either. I no longer take my cell phone out to the Apple orchard with me. I need the bees to do their thing.

Answer 10

Earnest, didn't you know that this is ALL George Bush's fault? He is personally responsible for Global Warming, Honey Bee die off, and Hurricane Katrina.
I expect a lot of us will be going on a diet!
Congress will raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour so the poor people can buy food. (Yes, they ARE that stupid.)

Answer 11

Replace them with Mexicans. Give them some wings and tell him to make it work or go back home.

Its now become a world problem so it really is a huge problem. its happened in the past but never so wide spread probably due to farmers moving the bees around farther than they would go on their own helping it spread faster. It would change peoples diet for sure.