Illinois Ag. Department Illegally Seizes Privately Owned Bees Resistant to GMO Poison
Terrence Ingram, a world renowned naturalist who once saved the Bald Eagle from being on the endangered species list, was recently met by the Illinois Agricultural Department which seized his privately-owned bees. The department seized his bees that were ‘resistant to GMO pesticides’ and killed the remaining healthy queen bees in his beehives.
Ingram had been researching the effects of Roundup, the Monsanto franken-food best-selling herbicide meant to make crops more resilient to pests. Roundup itself has long list of negative effects, with the product even shown to kill human kidney cells. Much of the ill effects of Roundup are produced by the active ingredient, glyphosate.
Ingram has been raising his bees for 58 years and researching Roundup’s effects on the bees for 15+ years. “They ruined 15 years of my research,” he told Prairie Advocate, by stealing most of his stock. You can surmise, that the results of his research were not likely a glowing report on the benefits of GMO pesticides.
The Ag Department allegedly seized Ingram’s bees because they were stricken with a disease known as American foulbrood. However, Ingram said he could prove that this is simply not true, and intended to do so at a hearing in April. Unfortunately, his bees were seized in March and are MIA.
The department released this statement to Ingram:
“During a routine inspection of your honeybee colonies by … Inspectors Susan Kivikko and Eleanor Balson on October 23, 2011, the bacterial disease ‘American Foulbrood’ was detected in a number of colonies located behind your house…. Presence of the disease in some of your colonies was confirmed via test results from the USDA Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland that analyzed samples collected from your apiary….”
Monsanto will not be held to any legal action, not in any state in America, especially as it loses stable footing in countries like Hungary. With scientific evidence mounting every day against their faulty seeds, of course they would need to dismantle additional research which proves the long-term negative effects of their GMO crops. Ingram’s bees were ‘inspected’ without his presence and without a warrant.
As government regulation of our freedom’s are increasingly suppressed, why are companies like Dow and Monsanto given free reign?
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This is one more example of our country becoming a totalitarian, fascist state. When they can't win in the courts, they bring out the guns and take over. What ever happened to the rule of law?
This article doesn't make any sense. An herbicide kills weeds, not insects. Roundup is an herbicide, not a pesticide.
You are correct, however the crops have a herbicide resistant gene so when the crops are sprayed with herbicide the the crops survive and the weeds don't. But in some parts of the world the weeds are also resistant to the herbicide, which raises a load of other issues….
/we almost lost all the eagles because of herbicides. it made the egg shells very thin and the eggs cracked when the eagles sat on them.
It was not an herbicide that made the egg shells thin but rather a pesticide. DDT is also made by Monsanto, and it does not just effect eagles, it makes all bird shells thinner. I know of no scientific studies to confirm this but at the age of 51 I can tell you that there are far more birds in North America now than there were when I was young, and we were using DDT.
Russell's teapot. You people need to stop spewing pseudoscience
The answer to your comment is "GMO frankenfoods". They are pest resistant. Roundup is a herbicide, made by Monsanto who also makes the GMO pest resistant crops using neo-nicotinoids. The article isn't very well written. The vanishing of the bees is a good documentary on the topic.
Do you eat herbicides?
Some GMOs are engineered not to be "Roundup ready" but rather to make their own pesticides. You can't wash those off, so if you eat the food, you are automatically eating the pesticide. The glyphosate in Roundup is only present in the food in small quantities but that is all it takes. It is ironic that Agent Orange is mentioned in a comment, without stating that glyphosate is the active ingredient in Agent Orange, and that it and PCBs were responsible for the human deaths and other problems in Vietnam.
YES, YOU DO!! the Herbicide gets into the ground, the food plants ABSORB ELEMENTS from the GROUND they grow in…. INCLUDING leftover Round up… and YOU EAT IT… get it NOW???
Agent orange was an herbicide killed a bunch of people in Vietnam, guess that blows your theory out of the water.
Why are Monsanto and Dow given free reign? Mainly because they have bought our "government" officials, the FDA and our court system. Clarence Thomas was a lawyer for Monsanto before he was "appointed" to his seat on the Supreme Court. The revolving door between Monsanto and our government insures that these companies get what they want with NO consequences…they are above the law, especially now that the Monsanto Protection Act was snuck into the Farm Bill, thanks to Roy Blunt, another paid henchman for these corporations. Buy organic and grow your own food from heirloom seeds…it is the ONLY way to fight back….and, do it soon, because soon it will be illegal to grow your own food. I guess next they will come and confiscate your garden crops, too! This is fascism, pure and simple!.
The only way I can see around this would be to always double your study…like keeping double books…a method Monsanto etc are familiar with no doubt…
they will take they bees to see if they can engineer the bees to have a new stock of bees resistant to round up and tote it as them trying to save the bees of america as they did with roundup ready crops
They destroyed the bees……….
Please explain what is meant by this: "Terrence Ingram, a world renowned naturalist who once SAVED THE BALD EAGLE FROM BEING ON THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST"… ? ? ?
The comments here make about as much sense as the article…if American foul rood was present, that would easily cause terrible problems in his apiary…. And why would monsanto need a bee that is resistant to roundup? Roundup is a herbicide, not an insecticide….
Because the poison is absorbed from the ground by the plants, and the pollen in flowers on the plants kill the bees…..
now what do you think EATING FRUIT/VEGGIES from the same plants, DOES TO YOU???
if Entoman couldn’t figure that out on his own, then I don’t know what to think… maybe he should just keep eating it and do the rest of the world a favor. lol
Man, anyone who’s too stupid to figure that out for themselves should just go ahead and eat this crap and do the rest of the world a favor. Really.
Here's some info for you folks who don't know any better (or just plain hate the truth):
http://thegoldenlightchannel.com/gmo-food-list-to…
Heeding the warning
Time and again, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has warned that GMOs pose a serious threat to health, and it is no accident that there can be a correlation between it and adverse health effects. In fact, the AAEM has advised doctors to tell their patients to avoid GMOs as the introduction of GMOs into the current food supply has correlated with an alarming rise in chronic diseases and food allergies.
This should come as no surprise. More than 30 years ago a food supplement called L-trytophan killed 100 people and affected 5,000 to 10,000 more. The cause was narrowed down to the genetic engineering process used in its production. If the symptoms had not had three simultaneous characteristics – namely, they were unique, acute and fast-acting – the disease could never have been identified.
Look at: "Evidence of GMO damage and toxicity". It shows images of huge tumors on rats that were fed GMO foods. You honestly think Monsanto give a flying fvck about your health & wellbeing? Enjoy your tumors, then.
This seizure of Mr. Ingram's bees is infuriating! The FDA, Monsanto and US government are trampling all over personal freedom. Who in hell is representing the 99% in this country? Obviously not anyone in our government! FDA needs to be dismantled; they don't have public health in mind at all. This country is in a dark, dark place right now. I am so sorry that I voted for Obama – the first time I voted for "change we could believe in"; the second time I voted for what I thought was the lesser of two evils. But everyone thinks their own representative is "doing a good job" – how stupid can we be?????
This comment thread is tedious. People are either bashing confused and curious people or repeating what others have already said. Why be so negative towards one another? Just stop and share the information, it’s simple and kind.
prove it.
Roundup is an enzyme, not a herbicide.
It is a desiccant and will strip all vegetation of minerals they need to survive. It is, indeed, a herbicide as it is used on RoundUp ready crops.
Glyphosate is not in agent orange. Agent orange is a mix of 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid which are both synthetic auxins (an important plant hormone). Rooting powder used for cuttings are also synthetic auxins.
Why does an article allegedly about bees being resistant to Bt crops mostly discuss the herbicide roundup? Does the author not understand the difference or are they deliberately trying to mislead readers to further their own bias opinion? In what way does a gene that gives resistance to roundup make them more resistant to pests as stated in the article? It makes crops resistant to roundup, not pests. The Bt gene is the one that makes them resistant to pests. Also the article that links roundup to human cell death is done at fairly high concentrations (57 ppm aka 0.0057% ) applied directly to cells in culture and the same result is see from the Bt protein. Bt being a protein derived from bacteria that is used as a pesticide in organic farming. When food has been tested for roundup 10-20 ppm can be found with an average of 11.9 ppm for soybean. So for a 65kg person 0.0057% is 370.5g which is approx 1L of roundup concentrate. At 11.9 ppm in food you would need to consume 311.344kg in one sitting. Good luck with that. This number would actually be a bit lower due to the percent of the body made up of bones etc but it’s still relevant. I’m not saying it isn’t toxic to humans, just that using the study mentioned to suggest it is is either deliberately misleading or demonstrates a significant lack of understanding of the topic.
How as the article updated from that many years ago?
Anyone know what happened to this man?