Farmers Sound Alarm as Piece of Food Supply Faces Collapse

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

You might not think about bees when you're buying cucumbers or berries, but they're behind nearly every bite. Now, a wave of colony collapses in Texas is threatening the bees we rely on and the food supply they help sustain.

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Studies have shown that tiny pieces of plastic, which may originate from everyday products such as food packaging or plastic toys, can make bees more susceptible to bacteria and viruses. In turn, the microplastics can injure or even kill bees, and make pollination more difficult. wapo.st/3RDRRBO

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-- The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) April 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM

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I don't think that Donald Trump pays attention to alarms.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-30 09:29 AM

Albert Einstein: "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-30 09:35 AM

Only the weak Bees will fail!

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-30 10:23 AM

Industrial farming unsustainable? Nobody could have seen it coming.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-30 10:57 AM

And now we have the most anti-science administration of our lifetimes in power.

Failed state status, here we come!

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-30 11:00 AM

#6 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-30 04:42 PM

Don't worry, Trump will take YOUR money to give it to these moron farmers who created this disaster by electing trump.

#7 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-30 05:15 PM

What we need is more pesticides and other chemicals that didn't even exist fifty years ago, back before Americans really knew how to farm.

We obviously aren't using enough manmade chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and that's why the bees are dying off.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-30 05:24 PM

Better start working on some clones!

~Doug Burgum

#9 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-04-30 05:29 PM

"Trump will take YOUR money to give it to these moron farmers "

Yes he will, and no he won't. In that order.

#10 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-30 05:36 PM

Speaking of food shortages, one of the local churches has a monthly or maybe weekly food giveaway that draws a pretty good attendance ( yes the town voted for trump). Anyway, driving by I noticed one of the attendees' trucks had a trump/ Vance bumper sticker.
Weird way to own the libs.

#11 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-30 09:51 PM

Weird way to own the libs.

Obviously they are just taking charity food they don't need so the libs can't get it.

#12 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-30 10:10 PM

Lights won't stop flashing at the railroad crossing, somebody's got to eat the cheese.

#13 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2025-05-01 03:41 AM

Monsantos work is done here.

#14 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-05-01 12:12 PM

So tell me, now that China virtually owns all of Smithfield, if they ship Bacon from the US to China, who pays the tarrif to whom??

#15 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2025-05-01 01:39 PM

Eat ----, America.

#16 | Posted by Jaspar at 2025-05-01 01:55 PM