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Honeybees contribute at least $47 billion a year to the North American economy pollinating crops like almonds, apples, avocados, blueberries, broccoli, canola, carrot seeds, cherries, citrus, cranberries, cucumbers, grapes, lettuce, macadamids, melons, peaches, plums, pumpkins, onion seeds, squash, sunflowers, kiwis, tomatoes, zucchinis (to name a few); alfalfa and clover for beef and dairy industries; cotton for our clothes; honey, candles and medicines. Many blue-chip corporations depend on the honeybees for their products including Generals Mills, Haagen Dazs ice cream, Starbucks coffee and Clorox's Burt's Bees a specialty personal care company with over 150 products. In 2007, almond, plum, kiwi and cherry pollen that were tested exhibited little if any protein content. Infertile soi...
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The role bees play as pollinators in agricultural production is often overlooked when people compare the relative value of inputs to a farmer's bottom line. But the service bees and other pollinating insects provide -- for next to nothing by way of cost to the farmer -- ranks right up there with fertilizer and weed control for boosting many a crop's productivity. The wind wouldn't do it, they need a vector," says Rheal Lafreniére, an apiarist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. In southern Alberta, where foundation hybrid seed is produced, the seed industry uses 60,000 colonies to do its pollinating and that requirement is soon expected to rise to 80,000 colonies -- the equivalent of all of Manitoba's commercial bee population. The North American Pollinator Protecti...
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These parents who say 'I'm going to shield my children' are dreaming," said Liz Perle, editor-in-chief of Common Sense Media, a non-partisan organization that describes its mission as "improving the media lives of kids and families. "I was just watching [Zoey] 101 the other day with my 11-year-old daughter and I commented something like, 'I bet [Jamie Lynn Spears]'s going to become bigger than Britney... she seems like the smart, stable one,"' wrote Lizbeth Finn-Arnold on her "MOM & Pop Culture" blog at http://www.travelswithlizbeth.typepad.com. "Once you've had this early pre-emptive talk with kids, then when something like this happens, you're ready," he said. "You can say, 'We watch her on TV. What do you think about what happened to her in real life?"'
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If it feels good, they are going to continue to do it," she explains. "Neutering didn't help my dog so I gave him a blanket and every time he got excited, he went to his blanket. "The trainer asked one of the dolphins to bring me a gift, and so one of them swam down and brought me a piece of seaweed," she explains. "Then, all of a sudden, another dolphin I had been swimming with disappeared." "The trainer said, 'Isn't that funny? The dolphin has picked up the man to bring him to you as a present. He sensed that you wanted a man,'" recalls [Lisa Sawka], laughing.
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I guess I never used to speak out in public," the Ojibwa youth said. "I used to get scared to go in front of a camera. Heifer donations work like this: a gift of $500 will, for example, provide a hungry family in Russia, Cambodia or elsewhere with a heifer that will produce up to six litres of protein-packed milk every day. Given that cows can calve once a year, the Heifer tradition is to pass on the offspring to other needy families in the community. The same is true of the offspring of other animals in the gift basket. "I go back to what my dad told me growing up on the farm. He said, 'You know what, it's always easier to clean up your neighbour's backyard than to look in our own,"' Bend recalled.
