{"id":2134,"date":"2012-06-21T06:08:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T06:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2013-03-23T18:43:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:43:27","slug":"bees-and-neonicotinoids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/bees-and-neonicotinoids\/","title":{"rendered":"Bees and Neonicotinoids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bee is up against it<br \/>\nfrom so many<br \/>\nwho set their eyes on profit<br \/>\nat all cost<br \/>\nthese wondrous little insects<br \/>\npollinate our food crops<br \/>\nand get a dusting<br \/>\nof whatever&#8217;s tossed<\/p>\n<p>or sprayed around our green fields<br \/>\nand our meadows<br \/>\nnow there&#8217;s something<br \/>\nfor us all to share<br \/>\nNeonicotinoids dangerous<br \/>\npesticides<br \/>\nand Bee&#8217;s are coming off the<br \/>\nworse for wear<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t get safely back<br \/>\nand the phenomena<br \/>\nof colony collapse syndrome is here<br \/>\nthere are many  other reasons<br \/>\nwhy Bee&#8217;s are getting stressed<br \/>\nBut pesticides are one<br \/>\nthat breeds great fear<\/p>\n<p>Bayer sends its lobbyists<br \/>\naround the place<br \/>\nand despite the bans around<br \/>\nin Italy<br \/>\nBritain seems to want to<br \/>\nrisk and the tragedy now unfolding<br \/>\nis getting worse<br \/>\nand it who knows where it could be<\/p>\n<p>Bee numbers are falling<br \/>\nquite dramatically<br \/>\nat this rate who knows<br \/>\njust where they could go<br \/>\nIf food crops are not pollinated<br \/>\nyields will drop for sure<br \/>\nand we could see food prices<br \/>\nrise and grow<\/p>\n<p>out of all proportion to consumers<br \/>\nthey would not be able to afford<br \/>\nthat could lead to such unrest<br \/>\nand riots possibly at best<br \/>\nand all because we didn&#8217;t want to know<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the Bee and end all! Its no good hiving off our responsibilities any longer <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/bees-and-neonicotinoids\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7005,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}