So few people understand how dependent we are on insects, particularly bees, for our survival.

Without bees pollinating our crops, worldwide famine would result, and an unimaginable number of people would die. Many other insects, performing far less savory services, such as destroying pests, or creating soil from organic residues (dead things), are equally as essential, though none of them make such tasty treats as honey.

Agricultural chemicals, though having increased agricultural production to unprecedented levels, are constantly being revealed in independent research to cause unanticipated problems in ecosystems, and to human health.

The main problem with GMO's isn't the actual DNA changes they undergo, nor the mechanisms used to alter them, but the fact they are engineered to resist higher doses of herbicides, such as RoundUp, and Xtend, which are then applied to those crops at higher levels, producing higher levels of pollution in the environment, and in our bodies.

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, is now found in the cord blood of newborns - who have never been directly dosed with herbicides while in the womb.

While eventually better science will produce better means of increasing yields, we need stronger controls on how chemicals are introduced into the environment RIGHT NOW. We are swimming in a toxic soup that has never been an evolutionary force before.

The rising incidence of cancer, linked to nuclear contamination, the 60% decrease in male fertility, linked to endocrine disrupting chemical pollution, and on and on, really should alarm us.

The sad fact is that the rate of introduction of novel toxins into the environment - and our bodies - is increasing at practically exponential rates today, and this may prove to be an existential threat to survival, not only of bees, but people.

Thanks!