{"id":168568,"date":"2015-07-27T18:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=168568"},"modified":"2015-07-27T18:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:51:18","slug":"nearly-100000-german-beekeepers-demand-ban-gmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/nearly-100000-german-beekeepers-demand-ban-gmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 100,000 German Beekeepers Demand a Ban on GMOs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bees’ importance cannot be overstated. As TrueActivist has shared before<\/a>, the tiny, bumbling insects are responsible for <\/a>a lot<\/a> –<\/em> making them essential in the future of our planet.<\/p>\n

Therefore, with massive bee die-offs (otherwise known as ‘colony collapse disorder’), it has been the plight of many scientists, beekeepers, and educated activists to do whatever it takes to ensure bees survive.<\/p>\n

Some theories exist<\/a> as to what is <\/em>causingcolony collapse, such as Monsanto’s GMO crops, the insecticides used to treat them, and EMF frequencies from excessive technological use\u2026 but debate persists.<\/p>\n

In wake of all the controversy, the German Beekeepers Association (DIB), which represents almost 100,000 beekeepers, \u00a0decided to take action by calling\u00a0for a nationwide ban on GMO cultivation. The news comes from a report published by the German NGO keine-gentechnik.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As GMWatch shares<\/a>, this call for a ban follows controversial legislation allowing EU member states to opt-out of GM cultivation, even though it has been approved at the European Union level.<\/p>\n

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Bees’ importance cannot be overstated. As TrueActivist has shared before, the tiny, bumbling insects are responsible for a lot – making them essential in the future of our planet. Therefore, with massive bee die-offs (otherwise known as ‘colony collapse disorder’), it has been the plight of many scientists, beekeepers, and educated activists to do whatever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-168568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}