U.S. Food Crisis, May 2015: “To give everything that you have and…they treat you like a piece of trash!” Higher education killing restaurants! Mother Nature killing off Bees, Chickens & Turkeys!
AAron Hutchins
BlindBatNews.com
May 31, 2015
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of May, 2015: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production, and spread of disease.
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is alive and well, destroying food for humans, and other animals! About 5-thousand U.S. beekeepers reported losing 42% of their bees from April 2014 to April 2015! For the same time period of 2013-14 they lost 34%! A group of universities and research laboratories (called Bee Informed Partnership) have been keeping track since 2010, this past year has been the worst bee die-off they’ve seen. As a group, individual and industrial farmers spend almost $15-billion USD per year using honey bees to pollinate the crops they grow. Without that, not enough fruit will develop. As I’ve written in the past, the researchers blame lack of food for the bees (the pollen they eat is lacking in nutritional value, which will also affect us humans), pesticide and GMO use (no thanks to companies like Monsanto, Archer Daniels Midland, Dow Chemical and many others) and disease carrying parasites.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirms more than 38-million birds in 15 states are infected with H5N2 influenza virus! This number is not up to date, as at the state level various state health administrators are already reporting far more than than have already died, or been culled! USDA also stated that H5 viruses have adapted to wild birds, implying that it originated with domestic poultry not the other-way-round. Because of that adaption USDA employees expect the devastating H5 epidemic to last until spring 2016.
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