The global blockbuster herbicide Roundup (glyphosate) destroys the ability of honeybees to navigate back to their hives, and it might be playing a role in the ongoing collapse of pollinator populations worldwide. This is according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina and the Free University Berlin that was published in the Journal of Experimental Biology on July 10.
“These results suggest that, in honeybees, exposure to [glyphosate] doses commonly found in agricultural settings impairs the cognitive capacities needed to retrieve and integrate spatial information for a successful return to the hive,” the researchers wrote.
The findings suggest that low-dose glyphosate exposure could have a serious cumulative, long-term impact on the navigational and foraging success of colonies, the researchers warned.
Another study, which was published last year in the Journal of Experimental Biology, found that glyphosate had other severe effects on bees’ foraging abilities. Bees that came into contact with glyphosate were found to lose their ability to eat, and they also suffered significant decreases in their ability to learn (including learning foraging skills), their senses of smell, and their memories. Disturbingly, the study also found that bees transport glyphosate back to the hive, thereby poisoning even non-foraging bees.
The risks are not just hypothetical; bees are almost certainly being regularly exposed to glyphosate in enormous quantities. With the widespread adoption of crops that were genetically modified (GM) to resist Roundup about 20 years ago, the use of the herbicide in agricultural fields has exploded. Bees play a major role in pollinating commercial crops, and they are regularly taken to forage in agricultural areas. A single bee can fly more than 6 miles in a single day, so it is pretty much guaranteed that bees will forage in fields contaminated with glyphosate.
Earlier this year, a study experimentally confirmed this supposition. Researchers from Boston University and Abraxis LLC tested honey from Philadelphia grocery stores. They found that 45 percent of the organic honey brands on the shelves tested positive for glyphosate at levels above those considered safe for human consumption. Non-organic honey was even worse, with 62 percent testing positive for unsafe glyphosate levels.
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PROPHECY 48
Yisrael, Your Enemies Seek To Make You A Scapegoat!
May 29, 2001
Famines not of MY making, droughts not of MY making, all created by man to destroy man to play Elohim! Diseased animals that are not of the CRETOR’S making, but rather man created, not ELOHIM created, all for the same reason as Judas, for the sake of greed. People are dying worldwide and healthy animals being destroyed and no one even questions why? It is so the enemies can control your food supply and the cost of it.
PROPHECY 61
Where Are All My Holy Men That Lift Up Their Holy Hands To ME, YAHUVEH?
September 11, 2002
This earth is hell bent, even the earth quakes and shakes in fear, for the earth knows the judge of all creation is going to judge this earth and will quickly appear. Your waters are polluted because of man-made sin, you wipe out species of animals simply because you want to murder or you want to wipe out their habitat for your own foolish purposes. But I have preserved each species in Heaven, species this earth no longer sees and MY Children whose home will be in Heaven, be assured, these species are saved for thee.
PROPHECY 74
“I, YAHUVEH, HAVE DECLARED WAR ON PLANET EARTH FROM HEAVEN!”
June 25, 2004
Oh foolish men, oh foolish Women, you men, you women of earth, you who plot against ME, you who try and lead MY true Children to slaughter, as sheep to the slaughter. You, who write the laws and cast away the laws of old, you say they are outdated. You forget I am the Ancient of Days. What will you do, oh foolish men of this earth? You who have your high technology, weapons of mass destruction, plagues and diseases you have invented with the hand of satan. You who are so rich and pompous, you who have built the underground cities. You who go and conquer planets I have not told you to conquer. Is it not enough that you have already destroyed one? Must you also conquer others? Do you not have enough war on this earth? Must you go searching for more trouble?