Author: Farmer Ken
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“Pilfered Pollinators”
The monoculture California almond production requires temporarily importing over a billion honeybees ever season to pollinate almond blossoms. By removing every other flowering plant within thousands-of-acres (conserving water and reducing competition) the almond growers have eliminated all natural pollinators from the environment. Combined with colony losses from pesticides, loss of habitat and the stresses of…