Big agriculture is killing our bees. We’ll all pay the price | Jennie Durant

We’re thinking about the crisis facing pollinators all wrong. And we’ve come to a crucial moment Last winter, commercial beekeepers lost more than 60% of their colonies – their worst losses on record. We tend to blame bee losses on separate, singular threats: pests, pesticides, habitat loss or extreme weather. But we’ve been thinking about bee losses wrong. The real culprit is our industrial food system. Continue reading...

By Jennie Durant