The Bee-pocalypse: Another Scare Story the Media Got Wrong

Have you heard? The honey bees are dying!
At least, that’s what the media and big money- hungry environmental groups want you to (bee)lieve.
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About 20 years ago, some American bees died from “colony collapse disorder.”
The media soon warned of a "bee-pocalypse" and that it might devastate our food supply.
But while the media was in a buzz, beekeepers adjusted and rebuilt their colonies.
Since then, there are 31% more bees in America.
“We're not in any way facing an apocalypse,” says Jon Entine of the Genetic Literacy Project ( geneticliteracy... ). “Things have never been better in terms of the numbers of bees.”
Do the media stop their fearmongering? NO!
The scare just won’t go away.
Our video is here to tell more of the story.

[@keithmcdonnell4485]

Any old farts like me who remember how we were all going to be killed by "killer bees"?

[@darksideblues135]

Yes. Didn't the media say that the killer bees were moving from the south and taking out village and city as they travelled kill millions?

[@peggyw172]

And acid rain

[@jakedoe1054]

Hey I actually almost was killed by killer bees. Arizona lol.

[@TTFN55]

I'm an old fartette!

[@MrJoshuaValentinebaby]

Oh man I remember that, but they never materialized just like every climate crisis

[@WalterW]

Turning off the news is the second best thing I ever did for my mental health

[@MrHeuvaladao]

Somebody has to ask: what was the first?

[@GusOfTheDorks]

​@@MrHeuvaladao I'm curious too

[@WalterW]

@@MrHeuvaladao making my ex go through with the divorce

[@Vance-w7n]

Getting off of Social Media too helps.

[@kevinbyrne4538]

I stopped watching the news years ago. I became tired of being manipulated: the news always plays on the same emotions -- fear, anger, and resentment.

[@kevinkoepke8311]

National Geographic is also a joke. They're so political anymore.

[@dawnelder9046]

They have removed old documentaries that do not fit the WEF agenda.

[@Nylon_riot]

They spent 30 years telling us an abused gorilla can communicate.

[@paulhare662]

I noticed and cancelled in the 80s.

[@dallasmore6703]

I used to love nat geo, not anymore! They're complete leftists now. Same with the majority of the national park service, the EPA, the CDC, even the FBI and CIA.

[@eldermillennial8330]

@@dallasmore6703 Sigh. Apart from “Global Warming”, they were still pretty solid & neutral on most issues, particularly geopolitical ones, until after 9/11. I was just reading an issue from 2000 about an excellent interview with Gaddafi & how he clearly had been doing his best to reform Libya. I wouldn’t be surprised if that article has been obfuscated, made hard to find, if not outright removed, from their digital archives, as that’s counter to Washington’s narrative since 2011.

[@gillianmurphy2111]

Environmental groups wouldn't get donations without the 'problem'

[@83licata]

These groups still get funding from the WEF, world governments, and other political groups!

[@gillianmurphy2111]

@@83licata grifters going to grifter bc it works, unfortunately

[@AnyaMidkiff]

Nor could govt and their Corp pals use this to push lab food.

[@bowdlerise]

@@gillianmurphy2111 Why did the bees go on strike? Because they wanted more honey and shorter working flowers.

[@paulholmes672]

And they'll never harm their, lucrative, 'problem solving' effort, with a real solution either. Then they would be out of a 'job'. It's like a psychiatrist, diagnosing you with a problem and then saying you need to see me every week or month until I tell you you're cured, what is the incentive for them to say you are cured?

[@francisjo3]

John Stossel - one of the few remaining honest reporters in America

[@christinepeterson8097]

My favorite You Tube Channel!!!

[@cynthiasutch9139]

Thank God for John Stossel and those following his footsteps.

[@BEAUTYnIQ]

this! sooo True.

[@satoau1]

except here he's well out of date. the news reported years ago that bees were dying, and people figured out how to prevent it (and those measures were also reported in the news), and now they're not dying in anywhere near as large numbers and we're pretty good at replacing the ones that are still dying. this was all reported on the news.

[@beckymocniak]

YES! ❤ I’m always sharing his content with friends and family

[@briankgarland]

I'm so happy John Stossel is still doing his thing. He's a national treasure.

[@howardhoman8233]

Amen!

[@margricks]

Yes, he is! He has common sense.

[@ChileExpatFamily]

The big mistake is letting people in the city tell farmers what is good and bad.

[@fakecubed]

I've gotten into the habit of asking environmentalists and journalists if they can even see a tree outside their window from their city apartment or office when they start going on about some environmentalism issue. If they actually claim to be able to see even one tree at all (for some reason they never deny that they live in a city apartment or work in a city office), I ask them how many trees they've planted in their entire life, and that always shuts them up for good because of course the answer is zero. Meanwhile I'm surrounded by forests for miles around, and I've personally planted hundreds of trees in my lifetime, along with growing and raising countless other living things as my profession. Environmentalists are always city dwellers, they never actually do anything except burn coal to power their cobalt mine smart phone so they can whine online about my truck that moves the food they eat to market.

[@sincerely-b]

There is no place I hate more in this world than large cities.

[@Coolidge2329]

Colorado just introduced wolfs thanks to denver

[@Nope_handlesaretrash]

Yeah because the megacorps that dominate farming knows better. The family farmer Old McDonald crap is a dying meme.

[@fakecubed]

@@Nope_handlesaretrash Thanks for burning that coal, city dweller. The miners thank you.

[@Paladin1873]

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. And those who benefit in the racket will defend it with passion.” - Eric Hoffer

[@anon36522]

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

[@trickydicky2908]

@Gordonthorne A passionate rebuttal. 😂

[@deadreckoning6288]

Government.

[@katiedrew4708]

I thought plants, trees, grass, etc., absorbed CO2 and turned it into oxygen, is that why it's called green house gas?

[@Buttcakes15]

The Genetic Literacy Project had been previously exposed as a shell corporation for Monsantos, an agricultural biotechnology company that produces chemicals to spray on plants. Also, why are there no scientists in this video?

[@tonywinters7189]

The thing that strikes me is that they didn't find some way to blame the dead bees on Donald Trump. Oh crap, I just gave CNN their next story.

[@danettekealey7382]

😂😂😂

[@Dontlicktheballoons]

I first heard about it in 2007. I was twenty and it was a huge source of anxiety and depression. They were supposed to all be dead within a decade. Bees, swine flu, bird flu, anthrax, hole in the ozone, jihadis, North Korea, WMDs, how many apocalypses did we all already live through??? And yet ppl still trust the talking heads

[@tnolan3176]

Dont forget when we entered the year 2000 the world was suppose to end !

[@fewworddotrick]

Don't forget covid and if just 15% got the shot and you combine that with the number already infected we would develop herd immunity and be back to normal within 2-3 months. When that didn't happen it was "if you don't get the jab the virus is going to mutate into something uncontrollable and everyone will die". Then when that didn't happen they said "what normally happens with this type of thing is over time the virus becomes weaker as more people get it." "The hospitals were overflowing" literally my entire extended family is made up of nurses and they all said that was completely untrue, not to mention hospitals are not designed to have 500 rooms sitting empty. They are designed to be somewhat full at all times. They supposedly had semi trucks full of dead bodies in NYC and you were gonna be next if you didn't get the jab. Then as per usual they specifically targeted the minority races to go get the jab but forgot to mention they were more susceptible to the virus because they are more likely to be deficient in vitamin d due to their darker complexion. They forgot to mention we have 4% of the world population and after all the ridiculous shutdowns and safety protocols for almost 3 years we somehow had 16% of the deaths worldwide. My local tractor supply removed ivermectin from the shelves to prevent people from buying it, my local subway put a big sign up in their window that said you couldn't come in without proof of vaccination, the walmart I worked at as a contractor had managers walk around to people at 3am confirming they were wearing masks even though nobody was anywhere near anyone else, except for the managers going from person to person all night long confirming they had their mask cinched up tight while the store was at 76 degrees inside, dont forget the national parks that would sic park police/rangers after you if you weren't wearing your mask OUTSIDE. Then after 3 years of hell the corporations were seeing dollar signs with all of those stimulus checks that were "supposed to help" and before you knew it almost everybody was more poor than they were before the checks, paying almost $6 for a gallon of gas and groceries, houses, cars, and interest rates through the roof, while the rich had their wealth skyrocket like never before. Maybe, just maybe it wasn't and never will be actually about staying happy and healthy.

[@douglasjacobs882]

When I was 20, "they" said, I the world population ever reached 4 billion people,, there would be mass starvation. There is close to 8 billion people now and less starvation.

[@mikeguilmette776]

Gen X here, and growing up in the '80s, we assumed we were going to get nuked . . . we just said "screw it" and lived our lives.

[@stuttgurth]

This video is as misleading as the anti-capitalists. Truthfully, the story is somewhere in between. There are 100s of studies suggesting that bees are profoundly impacted by insecticides and weed killers. And no, the number of bees are still significantly reduced from where they were in the 80s and havent recovered. Much of that recovery could be the result of better colony keeping practices and the movement to help the bees. Its really not as clear cut as this video presents. And that only took me 20 minutes of reading to see.

[@briannewman6216]

The legacy media is a waste of space.

[@kishascape]

Tbf they hyped this up in such a whiney and annoying way that it made me not care and just ignore it anyways.

[@salvador.garcia]

​@@kishascapethey do that with everything, mate. From when they talk about China and immigration, to the climate and the economy.

[@dvg4104]

They are just plain liars.

[@wrongfullyaccused7139]

They are the propaganda arm of the socialist/marxist/communist/democrat totalitarian ideology.

[@lanngunn6512]

American beekeepers here. There was an issue with American foul brood tears ago. Many keepers had to destroy hives. Then, varroa mites knocked out the bee population. That, too, is becoming manageable . I'd say the biggest threat to bees is pesticides. We keep our bees far from mass farming. So, they're thriving. Thanks for covering this.

[@Norvik_-ug3ge]

All pesticides are not the same. Also the bee population, as shown in the video is not only fine, it's way more than it was in 1960. Did you even watch the video? We need science not 'I would say' based on your hobby.

[@lanngunn6512]

@Norvik_-ug3ge Get out of here with your attitude about "science." Who's bees do the scientists study? Beekeepers! We're commercial Beekeepers, not a hobby. Did you read my comment? I plainly state all the obstacles bees have overcome in the past 40 years. And, the bees that aren't around mass farms are thriving. The bees that go to California's almonds don't do well, then come home and spread sicknesses to local bees. I'm not against pesticides. However, it's harmful for bees sprayed/ up wind from it. How many hives do you have? How long have you been a beekeeper?

[@cbmech2563]

And that is why I see hives all over commercial orchards?

[@alitlweird]

I’m glad you covered this story. It never occurred to me that this bee extinction story is bullshyt. A good rule of thumb: *_whatever the mainstream media is telling you, it’s the complete opposite._*

[@RWebster325]

"It never occurred to me that this bee extinction story is bullshyt." And you're a paratrooper? God forbid that you are a 35F or 35G.

[@gbonkers666]

Yep

[@bl8388]

And they never correct it. They just blame us for another problem and demand more control and tax funding.

[@alitlweird]

@@RWebster325 I’m not a paratrooper.

[@RWebster325]

@@alitlweird Are you a member of the 11th Airborne Division? Otherwise it is extremely misleading.

[@that1chickinFL]

I'm a master beekeeper. Our numbers are higher than ever. The more we learn about how to treat varroa mites, the better we'll be.

[@70smusicfanatic34]

You meant to write "...the better we'll bee"

[@billycox475]

What does splitting the colonies do? Reduce crowding? Add mite resistance to the gene pool?

[@domburton]

​@@70smusicfanatic34😂

[@smokedbrisket3033]

Back in the 70s when Dad (a PhD entomologist) and I were keeping bees, we had problems with varroa mites. They seem to come and go as a problem. Where I live now, managing fire ants around bee hives can be quite the challenge.

[@lisafeck1537]

... the better we will bee. Sincerely, thank you for your comment.

[@rubyxfinity8634]

I will forever find it laughable that the same activists against GMO foods lined up and volunteered to be GMO human beings, and called out persons who didn't want to participate in the GMO human trials.

[@MelodusDethicus]

Yep, but it should be expected from those lemmings. They lack the self-awareness and the critical thinking skills to reflect on themselves. Useful idiots. Then of course there's the bad actors who know exactly what they're doing, and they try keep the grift going as hard and long as possible.

[@deadreckoning6288]

Spot on 👍

[@LifesLaboratory]

Are you referring to mRNA vaccines? Surely you realize that mRNA is a short-lived molecule that is not used as genetic material in eukaryotes like ourselves. How does the introduction of mRNA to a human cell constitute genetic modification?

[@phillipmargrave]

Exactly

[@LifesLaboratory]

Are you referring to mRNA vaccines? Please explain how they become incorporated into nuclear DNA. Thanks.

[@mike3000usa1]

I have said it before and I'll say it again " never underestimate the power of human stupidity", that also goes for greed.

[@deadreckoning6288]

Greed & stupidity go hand in hand....

[@wrongfullyaccused7139]

The socialist/marxist/communist/democrat ideology has perfected their ability to manipulate and capitalize on human stupidity, gullibility, intellectual laziness, and greed.

[@ThomasTucker11]

So grateful for John Stossel, thank you for standing up and publishing truth.

[@stevemurray7862]

How do you know what he says is the truth?

[@rebeccalynn7795]

@@stevemurray7862 he's saying what they want to hear so it must be 'the truth'.....

[@alphagt62]

Doesn’t he show his sources? I believe he does show his sources, if you listen to this video

[@rebeccalynn7795]

@@alphagt62 it is easy to cherry pick sources.

[@muddogtracker7449]

​@@rebeccalynn7795 You sound like an expert....

[@mountainmover777]

In the 70's it was the killer bees that were coming to end us all.. I was terrified as a child. Now they're are all dying? The 'chicken little crew' needs to make up their minds.

[@AlphanumericCharacters]

I was shown a film strip (remember those?) in first grade. It was all about how killer bees were almost to America. They showed an animation that they were in northern Mexico and near the Arizona border where I lived. I remember watching my dad mow the lawn scared that killer bees would come out of some hive and attack him. Bizarre.

[@irishmjk427]

Killer bees, Acid Rain, Hole in the Ozone layer, Dead Fish commercials, Nuclear war threats and let's not forget every kids show had Quick Sand in it.

[@AlphanumericCharacters]

@@irishmjk427 the trash barge with nowhere to dump it’s load and for our younger generation…. The BP oil spill.

[@gaylanlee6447]

Best thing we ever did for our psyche was to quit watching and listening to the network media. We also quit paying attention to Hollywood. Both have become irrelevant.

[@sincerely-b]

We cancelled our TV subscription in 2013. Never looked back. You don't need it anymore. I also prefer to watch older shows because there's not as much propaganda in them. This new stuff bores me to tears. I also don't have Facebook. Or Instagram. Or Twitter. Strangely, I'm better informed on many topics than most... that's what happens when you become selective about what enters your mind.

[@lordfarquad8918]

Not irrelevent, EVIL.

[@pgramsey1]

There's a similar benefit from giving up watching criminals exercise, otherwise known as "sports."

[@sergioleone3583]

@@pgramsey1 You beat me to it! I stopped watching sports in general when angela davis's boy started kneeling in the NFL preseason 2016. I'd already stopped watching Formula one a few years before because it had gotten insufferably woke, and with all the extra time I have and massively reduced exposure to crap commercials my life is better. I also cut the cable cord at the beginning of 2017. Much better for the mind and soul.

[@arthurfonzarelli9828]

@@sergioleone3583 sorry but dumb to stop watching and enjoying sports over someone kneeling out of thousands of players. Non-issue nowadays. The whole boycott kind of dumb also as NFL never been more popular. I don't know why anyone cares what someone is doing during anthem. Not to mention our government and military are a joke anyways. No reason to support them either.

[@kthwkr]

In the 1970's there were articles about bees all dying off. And the stories never go away.

[@BEAUTYnIQ]

it was that American honeybee hives were being swarmed and taken over by the africanized killer bees.. it produced a hybrid but IDK if American honeybees are around as much or if that was over-hype as well..

[@JackHaveman52]

@@BEAUTYnIQ The traditional honey bee isn't even native to the Americas. They're an invasive species. How did the indigenous people of the Americas even develop the corn, potatoes and beans that we all eat today without honey bees? It's a damn miracle.....or the whole bee apocalypse narrative is just that. A story to scare the hell out of us.

[@richardcranium3579]

Yep. There were also stories of being out of oil by the early 90’s, the ozone hole was going to wipe us out, and the new ice age would have us covered in ice sheets again within ten years.

[@thomasluby1754]

Stories like that keep buzzing around. (Rim shot). 😝😝😝😝😝😝😎😎😎😎😎🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟👍👍👍👍👍

[@wrongfullyaccused7139]

@@BEAUTYnIQ : While there is some validity to the Africanization of American bee colonies a major fact is often left out by the fake news. African or Africanized honey bees are not cold tolerant. They cannot exist above certain point in America. There are companies that hatch high quality queens for apiaries to use. Due to American bee keepers, they are being weeded out. Remember that the real danger is an Africanized queen which can live perhaps two to three years tops. American bee keeps monitor their queens and usually replace them every two years or so. So American colonies stay safe. The American bee keeping activity is quite safe.

[@mabelpup8502]

How embarrassing for Jolie, acting like she wasn’t told what to say a minute before recording. If the media/gov’t say “something” happened to something , then they’re responsible for the “something”

[@racerx4152]

have the farmers file a class action lawsuit against these bogus environmental groups, and sue them out of existence! even jail time!

[@davidleavitt3804]

Good idea.

[@GuppyCzar]

Just look at the recent solar event. Before it happens the media: OMG Major solar storm will disrupt your phone and internet! After it happened: Look at all these pretty pictures of the Northern Lights.

[@ndean1687]

Haha! That's a good point!

[@Friend0fBill]

Was there a solar event? I guess I'm doing pretty good avoiding the mainstream folks. . . 😊

[@GuppyCzar]

@@Friend0fBill You're far better off!

[@rolandwoltman7835]

LOL ... A cat 4 level solar storm turned out to be a cat 5... Like the kind that could destroy the power grid and you think that's what was overblown? Out of all the garbage on the media, the Sun is actually able to give us a Carrington event that'll destroy life as we know it for up to a decade or more...

[@fakecubed]

@@Friend0fBill There was a big solar event. Actually quite huge. I got some cool photos of the sun spots afterwards with a solar filter on my camera. Sadly the weather did not cooperate to let me see the auroras. Potentially it might have disrupted some communications satellites. I don't know if it did because I wasn't following that story, but it was a thing. What the media won't say is that increased solar activity during this current solar maximum is the reason why the weather's been a bit warm these past few years, and when it's over, the Earth will cool down again. Soon they'll just be saying that human activities are causing global cooling somehow and the only solution is communism.

[@donaldsmith6814]

Honeybees DID seem to disappear from my area for over a decade, even with people going as far away as New Jersey to bring back new colonies to repopulate our area. But the bees never did totally die out & every years I see more & more of them. I side with Stossel completely on this one.

[@jonathanjones3126]

It doesn't help that their are many miles in cities where the mono culture of green grass has removed their habit

[@zigbeegooblesnort125]

They wouldn't wear mask and get the shots, so the bees died. 🙄

[@engineerinhickorystripehat]

I saw a small group of masked covidians yesterday at the Wally world .

[@surfside75]

wait ... -😂😂😂

[@budprepper3811]

That's what I was thinking 🤔

[@kishascape]

@@engineerinhickorystripehatcoronites

[@lisagrafton2529]

In their defense, they were likely shoplifting, and didn't want to be easily ID'd!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😰

[@tomw4338]

Colony collapse was due to multiple factors- mostly viral outbreaks in hives weakened by being carted all over the place by commercial operations and, critically, by the varroa mites, which invaded the US in that time period. US apiaries took mite control into account and took it a little easier on their bees, and the problem basically solved itself. Still significant losses, but not crisis level stuff.

[@IowaKim]

Right you are (I used to work at a bee lab).

[@wrongfullyaccused7139]

The real issue is moving the bees. That contributes more to CCD that other factors. Varroa mites are easier to control. Tracheal mites on the other hand....a real problem.

[@davidw.2791]

@@wrongfullyaccused7139Nah haven’t you been paying attention. There is NOTHING that will cause big losses. 😅 /s

[@wrongfullyaccused7139]

@@davidw.2791 : False. I think I'm the only one paying attention. Losses among bee keepers that move their bees to almond orchards are very thoroughly documented. Almonds cannot self fertilize. They must have honeybees to fertilize the trees. Since the locals don't raise enough bees to do the job themselves, hundreds of bee keepers move their hives directly to the orchards. If the trees pollinate, they get paid. If not they don't. It is a very well documented industry. However, the difference in the loss is due to something artificial, not natural. Bee hives are not supposed to be moved around because it stresses the colony. If a bee keeper wants, or needs, to move a hive of their own on their own property it is accomplished by moving the hive ten feet per day until the final resting place is reached. That way the bees suffer no ill effects. Oh and by the way. Goodbye.

[@davidw.2791]

@@wrongfullyaccused7139 Goodbye to you too, mister/ms so high and mighty you don’t even know what “/s” means. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@billhammer9241]

The Greenpeace ad says it wants to put a stop to the deaths of thousands of bees. "Thousands" is hardly a way to describe a theoretical bee crisis. Just one hive has around 30,000 bees. That makes the ad sound like it's trying to protect 1 hive. America has millions of beehives. You would have to be thinking in the context of trillions of bees, not thousands of bees in order to draw proper attention to the alleged issue. I'm a beekeeper. It's always nice when nearby farmers and gardeners consider the bees when they grow things, and are more careful with pest control. E.g. use diatomaceous earth. But none of this amounts to a crisis.

[@georgias701]

Is diatomaceous earth okay for bees? We want pollinators in our garden but have problems with ants.

[@billhammer9241]

@@georgias701 Keep it on the soil where bee-friendly flowers are blooming. I've gotten chickens for the ants. Seems to work somewhat, but chickens like to peck at the leaves of low-lying vegetation, so make sure you don't have seedlings or plants poisonous to chickens. The chicken is the most marvelous animal ever domesticated. Eats pests then makes eggs. I'm not an organic gardener, but I do lean that way and only use pesticides when absolutely necessary.

[@indutch2357]

I quit listening to the lying corporate legacy media 30+ years ago and don't miss it one bit.

[@deadreckoning6288]

Same. 👍 Nothing but lies & propaganda.

[@AnyaMidkiff]

I cannot tell you how glad I am to hear someone reputable say this.

[@kishascape]

Not that any of us with a working brain really cared about this to begin with. There’s tons of bee propaganda, like that flowers and plants can spread without them.

[@AnyaMidkiff]

@@kishascape I know. And I'm sure those "media true believers" will still buy in.

[@GrumpDog]

You WANT him to spout a blatant false narrative? It's as embarrassing a thing to say "I guess y2k was made up", when obviously y2k wasn't a problem, because enough awareness was raised to fix the problem. Same goes for the Bee issue. There's plenty of well documented proof there was INDEED a problem, but because of how scary that threat was, tons of awareness was raised, solutions were implemented, and changes were made to the industry, and the problems have effectively been mitigated.

[@AnyaMidkiff]

@@GrumpDog tell us you didn't watch the presented evidence without saying it. Breathe.

[@GrumpDog]

@@AnyaMidkiff Your evidence does not disprove all other existing evidence which says otherwise.

[@blucas8963]

Thanks for continuing to shine a light on media B.S.

[@frenchstudentA]

The world needs more people like John: an honest journalist who tells people that journalists are dishonest.

[@meritholdingllc123]

If the bees did disappear, I'd suspect Bill Gates. Trying to force into franken-meat.

[@MrDavidfuchser]

Mystery meat mysteriously gains a hint of honey.

[@professorwiggins3290]

It's all good. Few believe the media anymore. They know they're liars. They know the talking heads are generally ignorant and unthinking, hired not for talent but looks and style, they know those who run the show are generally passionate about money, connections, power, and personal politics, not the pursuit of the truth. We don't believe them anymore. We have contempt for them. The market has adjusted.

[@crosenblum]

Since when has any media been truthful or factual? Never.

[@BenHopkins1000]

“And all the bees are dyin’. F[bleep] off and di-nosaurs!” - Rick and Morty

[@jeremygilby1455]

Right? I wonder if they teach about Yellow Journalism in schools anymore.

[@Trip_Ts]

I think these are twisted truth it depends on who pay the most to twist it more this way or that way.

[@BrewsterMcBrewster]

@@jeremygilby1455 You can't talk about "Yellow Journalism" any more. The "Yellow Journalists" have forbidden it!

[@hoppyandhisholidayhelpers1714]

StosselTV is media.

[@jehl1963]

Years ago my family travelled around Europe with a family member who was allergic to nuts. While every food item was labeled for it's GMO content, there was no labeling for known allergens. An internet search revealed specific quantities of people who had died in each country from food allergies, and no known deaths from eating GMO food. Crazy!

[@fewworddotrick]

Comparing gmo foods to acute allergic reactions is totally off base though. That's like saying well red dye hasn't killed us yet so let's just put it in everything.

[@jehl1963]

@fewworddotrick Not really. I'm just point out that pages of regulations and vast sums of money were spent with no measurable benefit. While on the other hand, an issue that impacted a clearly identifiable population in a potentially life-threatening way was ignored.

[@freecat1278]

Here is a conversation I had in 4th grade: Teacher: These new plants have pesticides built into them. Me: How do you get the poison out of the food before you eat it? Teacher: Will you stop being such a smart mouth!

[@carriebartkowiak]

John, down in Australia the gov't is forcing bee keepers to burn all of their hives even if they're healthy - it's much like the old Mad Cow scare where the gov't wanted ranchers to slaughter healthy herds "just in case". There are a number of bee keepers filming and showing this here on KZbin that you could get in touch with and cover.

[@paulholmes672]

It would be a shame for the little people, but when the crop yields go south, maybe we can get sanity like they did in SriLanka but this time the architects are caught and prosecuted.

[@ExtraFungus]

The honey bees are highly invasive, they are doing it because they are non-native however, it's a problem they can never control no matter how many hives they kill.

[@humanbeing3777]

Brought to you by the Meat and Dairy Council (hypothetically). 😏

[@sandraunterthiner9763]

I saw those videos

[@randyh647]

For some reason English speaking countries are pushing a socialist/communist agenda lockups, restriction of freedoms and now reducing food supplies so they can control us more! Not sure why!

[@georgetodd5795]

As someone who works in a lab that studies bees and other insect pollinators, I can say that this hysteria regarding honey bee declines is largely unwarranted for sure, but there are many other bees (bumble bees, mason bees, carpenter bees, mining bees, etc.) that offer important pollination services to both crops and non-crops but are in decline for various reasons. If people want to help bees, plant native flowering plants, mow less often, and try to create some habitat space for these other bees such as bare soil for ground-nesting bees and cavity boxes for cavity-nesting bees.

[@melissadeloach8503]

Thank you! I have noticed I haven't seen any carpenter bees in a couple of years. I only mow every 2 weeks. The grass gets used to it. I also don't freak out over weeds. Once they're mowed, they blend in with the grass.

[@ghiggs8389]

And don't freak out when they take harborage in or around your property. People have this weird disconnect from nature these days.

[@barrym2112]

Thank you for pointing this out. Some plants are not pollinated as well by honey bees and the wild other bees are what these plants need.

[@ghiggs8389]

@@barrym2112 many creatures are pollinators, even male mosquitoes, not all are as effective though.

[@sideshow1297]

See, if that’s true, why can’t they report that in the media? That’s manageable, it’s actionable, and it’s hopeful. Incidentally, I put in 1000 ft.² of native flowering plants in my yard, the pollinators that show up are unbelievable. Butterflies too. It’s really great. Thanks for sharing.

[@brunobarks6544]

I cut the cable and never looked back. More truth in my life now than lies. Much love to all. God bless 🙏

[@stevematthews684]

Hmmm...I remember someone calling these hacks "Fake News." Guess that is very accurate.

[@andrewp7509]

And china virus from a lab that Obama made them move to China

[@muddogtracker7449]

Yeah, but if I point that out on here, to the ones lying to us.... I get cen sored for it...... it's like they are all controlled by the same people..........

[@conureron3792]

One headline talks about Bug population collapse, the next headline is about how humans need to eat more bug protein. It’s crazy how conflicted they are!

[@stevenschnepp576]

It's crazy that you don't understand the difference between wild and farmed.

[@davidw.2791]

@@stevenschnepp576I mean they also saying we should just rely on wind pollination and hand brush pollination ❤️

[@TheHouseOfWaffles]

Wow, John Stossel really dropped the ball on this one. Put aside the debates about whether pesticides and GMOs are unsafe; probably the worst thing about GMOs is the _legal ramifications_ surrounding _patented organisms._ Suppose you're a farmer growing heirloom crops while your neighbor is growing GMO crops _licensed_ from Monsanto. In all likelihood, the wind will blow pollen from your neighbor's crops into your crops, and then before you know it, you're growing _unlicensed_ GMOs. Because of this unpreventable violation of Monsanto's copyright, their lawyers will then swoop in and sue you into poverty. You'll lose the farm and all your livelihood. Now imagine your neighbors' Tibetan Mastiff breaks out of _their_ yard, trespasses your property, and impregnates _your_ dog, then your neighbor _sues_ you into oblivion for breeding their dog without their permission. It's the same thing. Take the analogy one step further: Suppose your neighbor breaks into your house, violates your wife and daughters, then YOU go to prison for the crime. This is essentially what Monsanto is doing to America's farmers, and the government is allowing it.

[@danielturner9832]

Sue that the neighbors corn pollen trespassed on your land.

[@JB-1138]

Thanks Waffle House. Now, what's for breakfast?

[@margricks]

@@danielturner9832 LOL!

[@litigioussociety4249]

I work in pest control. I have to correct people on this regularly. We have meetings as well that explain the primary causes of colony collapse are the same that have always existed: weather and poor genetics/queen. Just as many colonies fail as survive, which is why they can report it as seemingly worse than it is. This is true of other similar social insects like ants and hornets. If it wasn't true, then they'd be everywhere. Honeybees aren't even native to the Americas, nor do they play important part in the native ecosystem, but instead are mainly beneficial to increasing production of certain non-native crops like almonds. If honeybees disappeared from the world, most people wouldn't even notice, since most foods that include honey in their name don't have real honey in them.

[@Bob_Adkins]

Careful, you're on the edge there, and we complain when the mainstream media gets on the edge.

[@jimmy_kirk]

How many species of bees ARE native to the Americas? How many species of bees produce honey?

[@thegeneralist7527]

In other words its a normal part of beekeeping?

[@litigioussociety4249]

@@jimmy_kirk Only one kind of bee makes honey, and their native to the Mediterranean across to East Asia. There are lots of native species of bees, wasps, ants, hornets, mosquitoes, flies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators in the Americas and the rest of the world. Lots of plants can pollinate by wind alone. Honeybees are not the keystone species they are made out to bee.

[@jimmy_kirk]

@@litigioussociety4249 Do bumble bees make honey?

[@LackLusterMedia]

Wait! Maybe we have TOO MANY BEES!

[@Crazy-Chicken-Media]

I love your work! good to see you in the wild. keep it coming, hows the app coming?

[@usr45-x1q]

Ban the bees!

[@arinerm1331]

Great to see you in the wild, LL! Are you having a thunderstorm? REEEE! CLIMATE CHANGE!! Is it not going to rain for a week? REEEE! CLIMATE CHANGE!! I just saw a solicitation for donations a couple of weeks ago to save the bees. It's all grift

[@dionrau5580]

Attack of the killer bee's from Mexico...

[@SgtJoeSmith]

​@@dionrau5580I was just gonna say that. What happened to them? Oh yeah the beecopylis. Murder hornets, killer whales, fire ants, pig flu, bird flu, cyborgs from the future 2012, y2k. All these things that were gonna kill us the last 40 years that never did.

[@bobjacobson858]

The photo at 0:18 is actually of a bumble bee (in this case, Bombus affinis, a species now on the endangered species list, although not directly due to pesticides). Many species of bumble bees and even some social wasps are becoming scarce. However, it must be kept in mind that honey bees are managed by people, so measures can be taken to increase their numbers, which is not the case with other kinds of bees.

[@bevo65]

The media's whole business model depends on scaring people. Get people scared, they keep watching. Get them to watch, ratings go up. Get the ratings up, advertisers get more bang for their buck. Get more bang for their buck, they buy more ads. Buy more ads, make the media more profitable. It's disgusting.

[@R_an_D]

As a beekeeper, I can tell you I am now able to make as many healthy colonies as I want. The only limitations are how much do I want to spend on equipment and how much time do I have to manage them.

[@ExtraFungus]

Yeah, they are highly invasive on top of being easy to cultivate when you know what you're doing. But also they just aren't as important as they are made out to be.

[@remco6816]

Yea as long as you are treating them to kill the veroa mites. While treating them wasnt really needed before. Things did sadly change.

[@ExtraFungus]

@@remco6816 incorrect. I've come across infested hives, I have collected them and put them in boxes and took them home. Yet somehow without treating, my hives never became infested. Some bees are hygienic, some aren't. Trying to manage it just helps the unhygienic bees continue on.

[@remco6816]

@@ExtraFungus true survival of the fitest you could say. Those who cant adjust will die those we can will survive. If adjustment is possible. Which it is with veroa so it seems.

[@dcsblessedbees]

Wait tell you have a bad year and you loose them all then talk.

[@JohnH.Sturgis]

Television (and now the internet) is and always has been the worst source of information. 100% about entertainment. Long ago, as the public couldn't be bothered with print media, magazines like Time and Newsweek moved toward the broadcast model: appeal to people's emotions, like anger, joy, fear, sadness, hate.

[@margricks]

ALL the magazines I used to read became irrelevant to me decades ago. And they are still pushing the left propaganda. And have been wrong on EVERYTHING.

[@williambaker1136]

About ten years ago when I first moved to our somewhat rural homestead, I was concerned with the few numbers of honey bees I saw where clover and flowers were abundant. But within 2 years (2015) I was happy to see plenty of bees harvesting this same area here in OH. Just yesterday in MS, was happy to observe the workers near my hotel busily buzzing and collecting pollen. I realize this is so anecdotal, yet I am happy to see bees.

[@aaronlopez492]

"Something is killing the American bee population". If I didn't know any better I'd swear this was put out by the satirical site, The Babylon bee. LoL

[@andrewstallings6548]

Bee Colony collapse happens when some of the bees do all the work and the rest complain and collect honey stamps.

[@ROgletree]

I’m a new beekeeper. I have not seen any discussion in the beekeeping community about declining population of bees.

[@BlazinRiver1]

I would keep an eye on our magnetosphere....it is growing weaker and weaker allowing more radiation to the planet. Could....could effect the insect world.

[@wtfdudekk]

So speak up. You are an ''expert'' witch the media tells us to believe. Get as many from the beekeeping community to speak out

[@WYO_Dirtbag]

@@wtfdudekk No, "experts" have to go along with and repeat the message the media/world governments wants them to.

[@shioq.]

You're clearly paid off by Big Bee

[@pzflo]

Bee smart, keep your bees away from a major road, cars kill more bees than anything,. When I was a bee keeper that's what dad always said. Skunks ate a lot of our bees.

[@cantileveredapotheosis]

On an intellectual level, most modern media is as exciting and interesting as a fashion show, and we know how absurd those can get.

[@JohnLeePedimore]

The importance of bee pollination is often framed as a food security issue. However, none of the starchy staple crops that provide 90 percent of the world's caloric intake (rice, corn, wheat, barley, millet, rye, sorghum, potatoes and root and tuber crops), require bee pollination.

[@snoverstudios123]

I'm a new honey bee keeper hobbyist. Most people are VERY clueless about bees, hives, lifespan, temperature and nature's effects, how all this affects honey production and pollination for crops, etc. I don't like nor trust governments much, but even the USDA report says: "Through 2008, bee disease and elevated overwinter losses contributed to declining colony counts. In 2008, U.S. honey bee colonies totaled 2.3 million, the lowest on record. Reflecting the trend of retraction for much of the decade, the average number of U.S. colonies through the first 10 years of the 2000s totaled 2.49 million. As beekeepers adapted to bee disease challenges and overwinter losses lessened, the number of colonies began to steadily recover. The average number of colonies in the most recent decade was 2.7 million - nearly 8 percent more than in the prior 10 years. Even though colony numbers have largely recovered in the last decade, per colony honey yields have declined at a rate of about half a pound per year." One of our hives is from a "swarm" we were able to capture. Locally harvested honey is the most healthy for local people to consume: "Raw honey contains antioxidants, bee pollen, and bee propolis, which may provide a range of health benefits."

[@colorocko1]

Be careful of the information you get. Everyone has an agenda.

[@stevenschnepp576]

"Raw honey contains antioxidants, bee pollen, and bee propolis, which may provide a range of health benefits." Precious few of these alleged benefits have been demonstrated in peer-reviewed scientific study, despite there being quite a bit of money to be made by doing so. Believe you me, if Big Pharma could make money selling you locally-harvested honey as a prescription medication, they would. They can't, though, because these claims are bologna.

[@carrollsanders9376]

​@@colorocko1Yes everyone does wild bee population is not recovering, only farmed bees.

[@lanep2023]

If you tell the story, and when you tell the story, don’t forget to tell the whole thing! Thank You John.

[@StokesMusicStudiosOnline]

John Stossel. One of the last honest journalists.

[@davidcox3076]

I remember reading about Sri Lanka. They listened to Big Media about the bees. And the people wound up starving. Good job.

[@margricks]

Which was probably the goal of the progressives who want to depopulate Earth in every way possible.

[@pallidbustofpallas4679]

The media used to tell you what happened, it was up to you to decide how you felt about it. Now the media tells you how to feel about it, it's up to you to decide if it really happened.

[@margricks]

propaganda machines. Every single one of them, whether left or right.

[@daltonbrasier5491]

Nope, it has always been this way. The 24 hour news cycle and the internet just made it obvious.

[@breakthrough8628]

Freedom of speech for all, but when the media gets it wrong, if information was available at the time, their speech was spoken to avoid the mistake and they neglected to uncover that information they should be held accountable, who agrees?

[@mars1952]

@00:32 "Devastating impact on agriculture" and they show grain and corn neither of which are pollinated by honeybees.

[@markmeridian3360]

People need to wake up to the fact that GangGreen doesn't really care about the environment, they care about wealth transfer - to themselves.

[@margricks]

Can I "steal" that description??? You are so right!!! GangGreen!!! LOL!

[@danielberg7644]

A had a couple of bees on my school bus filled with elementary students this morning. Lots of high pitched screaming and crying. I told the kids bees are helpful and they are just looking food. The kids bravely made it to school without being stung.

[@loganclements4332]

Stossel is the best. He should be the #1 media in America.

[@QAlba1074]

WRONG.

[@aaroncoulter3462]

I stopped watching “the news” about 12 years ago. I pay no attention to those idiots.

[@royschalk6554]

Same here.

[@jimschaffer8921]

Yet they mold the world around us……. Bastards… they were elated when Covid hit, in conjunction with the globalist elites We were told to stay home and listen to THEM ……WTF

[@alphagt62]

I was a computer tech in Y2K, I’ll never believe another thing they say, if they told the truth I wouldn’t believe it.

[@jimschaffer8921]

@@alphagt62 I like how im regularly censored by KZbin…. Where’s my comment from yesterday KZbin….

[@jimschaffer8921]

@@alphagt62 what the hell KZbin?

[@MicahThomason]

God bless John Stossel for putting up the good fight.

[@colorocko1]

We have to help John by letting others know about what he's doing.

[@QAlba1074]

The good fight? He's advocating for GMO crops and pesticides... and inevitably cancer.

[@Lo_V3]

My father had about 30 hives, but one day government spray a pesticide for mosquitos and kill all the bees 🐝 😡

[@ExtraFungus]

Finally, the government doing good.

[@kilroy07]

@@ExtraFungus What a horrible thing to say...

[@ExtraFungus]

@@kilroy07 sometimes the truth is horrible.

[@sincerely-b]

Governments cause problems and then offer the terrible solution to the problem they've created. This is true throughout history. It's what they do.

[@kilroy07]

@@ExtraFungus Sometimes... But usually it's just mean people.

[@gungasam3000]

In the 60's there was a similar situation to colony collapse disorder, they just didn't have a name for it. Twenty years ago they gave it a name, not once referring to the previous loss. If you want to be concerned about bees, be concerned that the Australian and New Zealand governments are destroying whole apiaries "to control the spread of american foul brood," without even testing if an apiary has a problem.

[@lt35phila]

Varroa mite is the problem

[@phredflypogger4425]

I live on semi-rural acreage in Australia. When I moved here 13 years ago the area was alive with insects, birds, lizards, you name it but over these years I have seen a significant decline in all wildlife. I put it down to a reduction of the insects which are at the bottom of the food chain. Something is certainly affecting insect populations. I'm not a tree hugger or climate nut.

[@margricks]

Remember, nothing stays the same.

[@mattgayda2840]

A large problem currently is theft of hives on massive scale, entire tractor trailer loads of bees being stolen, which can bankrupt a business and cause entire crops to go unpollinated. Hauling bees around from farm to farm and coast to coast is what pollinates everything from almonds to oranges and they get booked months to years in advance

[@KevinJDildonik]

FYI: The pollinators they use are a non-native species. That's why they're so fragile. Native bees are (often) solitary and live in the ground instead of hives. The real vegan/veg complaint about bees isn't harm, but ecological damage from hauling around all these non-native bees. It may be a necessary evil, like fertilizers derived from petroleum, but we need to acknowledge that there are reasonable complaints against business as usual.

[@marcoprolo1488]

I don't know about bees but when I bought an acre property by a large river 18 years ago there was frogs end turtles hiding everywhere in the backyard. After 15 years they all had but disappeared. Not sure what was happening, but I noticed it, and it was scary.

[@Juhnte]

It's wild species of bees that are dissappearing, not honey bees, which are Invasive species.

[@paulholmes672]

Keeping bees, which I have done on and off for 60 years, is cathartic, but my garden and trees are proof of their efficacy. One of the greatest threats to beekeepers is these groups with their TYPICAL We need to save the, in this case, honey bees, and then when you say, "oh good, I need a place to base a couple of my hives', they revert to typical 'Not in My Backyard'-itis. We have a long time beekeeper that has a few hives on his 4 acre rural property that is now threatened with hive destruction. The city allowed some housing developments to encroach on our rural area and now a, just moved in, lady with hummingbird feeders is claiming the bees are a nuisance because they are eating her syrup, and claiming his bees are the culprits and want all of his hive declared pests. It's akin to people moving next to a 100 year old airport (because it is cheaper) and then complaining about the noise.

[@mattdillon4398]

They do it with farms too! They want to move to the country and get away from the city but then they complain about the smells and tractors on the road. Liberals, pffft.

[@colorocko1]

There are many, many of those people around.

[@TSGEnt]

Hollywood doesn't apologize for a bad movie, why would Time apologize for a bad article. It's all for entertainment. No difference. None of it is real.

[@user-mc5ch1rs4d]

That's fiction. And this is suppose to the truth, from a highly regarded source no less

[@1495978707]

It is important to cooperate with pollinators in general though. Just because this was made into a crisis doesn't mean pollinators are insignificant. Making sure to give your local pollinators some food to eat so they don't have to travel as far, especially in urban engironments, is important. Diversity is also important, because pollinators have preferences

[@denisaljic]

Good Job John! Never expected you out of all to tackle this issue so effectively. With every crisis they claim to exist they them create with the actions to "prevent" that crisis. Problem, Reaction and Solution.

[@sincerely-b]

Governments have done this throughout history. Create the crisis and then offer the broken solution. It is still true today. 2020 was the perfect example of that.

[@clarkcolt45]

I remember the ozone-lie when I was a shild. Now I know that earth is a giant ozone-generator and it was not the end of life.

[@altasadventures1139]

I forgot about that one!!!! Ya, Mom had to quit using Aquanet because it killed the ozone. Haha what a load of turd.

[@tony0786]

I believed it back when the media reported it because I didn't see as many bees as I did in the 70's and 80's. Back then, I saw them everywhere. I was stung on my foot by one because they were always gathering pollen from clover flowers. Now, I never see them on clover. I only see them for about a week in the summer when the privet bushes are flowering.

[@californian83]

The more people scared the better for fundraisers

[@denisegaylord382]

There are groups that have figured out a way to play on people's emotions and lure them into donating money, that just keeps fueling the organization's rhetoric. It's rather sad that so many people don't do their due diligence before they donate to these groups. I am very selective of who I donate to. I do donate to Heifer International because they help poor stuggling families around the world by teaching them farming skills growing vegetables, fruits, and farm animal husbandry, that improve the family's lives. One of the gifts that you can donate to a family in need, is a colony of honey bees. They teach the family how to care for them, and how to harvest honey for market/barter.

[@Jay-gf8tm]

I donate nothing. Let the people suffer.

[@colorocko1]

@@Jay-gf8tm Yes, you are Gate's school of anti-human. Happy you admit it. Lots of your kind out there.

[@Jay-gf8tm]

@@colorocko1 we need to be realistic about reaching net zero carbon emissions worldwide. I am doing my part.

[@denisegaylord382]

@@Jay-gf8tm we do NOT need to reach net zero carbon emissions. Without CO2, life on this planet does not exist. It is a fundamental building block of every organism, plant and tree. You are a carbon based life form as well, contrary to what you think. We need to work on human flourishing, and lifting as many people out of poverty first. You cannot deny every developing country the right to cheap and abundant energy. Energy frees more people from manual labor, than anything else. It frees children from working to bring in dung, and wood to heat their homes or cook with. It frees children from having to walk miles to get clean-ish water for drinking, irrigation, cooking, and bathing. It frees women from having to manually wash clothing. Not to mention, it improves outcomes for a wide variety of scenarios: medical, social, and informational.

[@Jay-gf8tm]

@@denisegaylord382 no 100% of science agrees that the world is past the breaking point. If you are serious about climate change then we need to address the population crisis and return to monke.

[@ericoakley4388]

John please live forever…we need you!

[@Cyrus992]

I may not agree with Stossel on a number of issues, but he does give me lots of optimism, appreciation and common sense. Still eat organic

[@_DB.COOPER]

You’re part of the problem obviously.

[@rustyshacklferd535]

Another lie is organic. I worked on an organic farm, we didnt use chemical pesticides, but we sure used a shit ton of chemical fertalizer.

[@noname-xo1bt]

Me too. Yes, organic does use chemicals to kill bugs, but they are much more well known. The new pesticides have been "extensively" tested, but only in a limited set of animal models; animals with vastly different physiology to humans. I'd rather let someone else beta test the "safer than ever" pesticides on humans. I have learned enough about how the approval process works to willingly put my own skin in that game.

[@altasadventures1139]

John Stossel is refreshing but, I still take it ALL with a grain of salt. Just because JS comes out and says, “Hey, GMO’s are good and without pesticides theres not enough food, doesn’t mean I believe it. We have to do our homework. I do like his passion, trust his point of view more than most. At the end of the day, I’m the one responsible for my families health, no one else so, I grow what I can, eat local as much as possible and use common sense when I have it.

[@_DB.COOPER]

@@altasadventures1139 so what homework do you do?

[@boostedmaniac]

At 6:15 GMO seedless watermelon is GMO. They try to deny it, but to get it seedless, you have to genetically modify it.

[@pinetreepizza]

And that would be a 'duh' moment lol😂😂

[@judahbrutus]

I think the issue with pesticides and GMO foods is that there's been very little testing on the safety and all the studies that were done are performed by the chemical companies

[@Danr07]

I don’t know. I’m 50 years old and when I was a kid the clover blossoms in the yard used to be full of honey bees. Now I don’t see any. None.

[@jonathannumer5415]

You normally have to have a hive within a mile or two, contrary to popular belief honey bees are not native. So you probably had a beekeeper closer to you at one point. Or a feral hive

[@kilroy07]

Because HOAs and suburbanites want "perfect lawns" free of clover and dandelions. Same with lightning bugs...

[@sincerely-b]

​@@kilroy07I have both in my yard. Bees and lightning bugs. I do not treat my grass, I actually planted clover in my grass and I also have fruit trees and shrubs. I made sure I had what they needed and here they are. I'd love to have a hive but I don't know enough about bees to keep them, so I let them munch on my yard and fly home to their hives. I know they're not consuming toxins when they're here.

[@Bob_Adkins]

Lots of people used to keep bees, but not so many now. Cold weather late in spring can stress or wipe out hives, especially wild colonies so you won't see many for at least a year.

[@altasadventures1139]

@@kilroy07 We used to have lightening bugs all over the place. Rarely see them anymore, good point!

[@jeffpadilla9891]

Seems every grocery store’s I go into have tons of honey on the shelves.

[@eadecamp]

And at good prices.

[@dogguy8603]

A lot of it is fake Chinese honey, it's cheaper than real honey, basically they take a small bit of honey and mix it with colored corn or rice syrup, if your honey dosent crystallize when it sits for a while, then it's probably fake

[@justinsane7128]

Half of its Chinese fake honey

[@PeterRabbitWhatsup]

I buy lots of honey for my coffee.

[@PeterRabbitWhatsup]

​@@justinsane7128Hi NOT THE BRIGHTEST BULB.

[@jasonsilos6480]

31% more bees now. Zero media coverage because it’s not bad and sensational.

[@carrollsanders9376]

Actually wild bee population is still declining rapidly that's what John isn't telling you.

[@johncrocker4209]

We had 3 different hives move on to our property during the "scare". We never could figure out what the heck they were talking about. We do dedicate a portion of the property to wild growth every year.

[@ericsfishingadventures4433]

Bees are awesome, congratulations on the free new hives!

[@alabama2uz]

They are also an invasive species. Makes you wonder how American plants survived for millions of years before them.

[@MalachiWhite-tw7hl]

Few people know this, that they are European in origin.

[@ExtraFungus]

​@@MalachiWhite-tw7hlno, they are not European in origin, within our written history, we brought them to Europe out of Africa.

[@fakecubed]

The native pollinators in North America never saw any dip in population while the commercial honey bee populations had a few troubles. Of course, feral honey bees also saw no dip in population while the commercial honey bee populations had a few troubles. For all I know the honey bee populations are still having trouble in the commercial operations. The reason is because commercial operations overstress their bees to get about 7% more honey over better honey bee management practices. That's a lot of profit to leave on the table, I suppose, but most amateur beekeepers who use the less stressful methods of beekeeping get slightly less honey but don't see anywhere near the problems that caused the panic a while back.

[@michaelreimer951]

​@@ExtraFungusI always remember hearing ancient Egyptians harvested alot of honey.

[@MalachiWhite-tw7hl]

@@ExtraFungus Are they different from African honeybees? Why do they call them "European" honeybees?

[@navmcc9965]

I get “save the bees” mailings almost every day. Glad I found this report. Thanks

[@musicteacher5757]

I had a bee hive years ago. Shortened story: I had to leave a frame full of honey outside all day. At the end of the day there was five different types of bees stealing honey, from big bumble bees to tiny black bees. So I never worried about the "honeybee apocalypse". Also -weren't honeybees brought over from Europe? As in not native to the America's?

[@TrekBeatTK]

That’s correct! Honeybees are an invasive species. They are literally European colonizers! I thought these folks hated those.

[@slewone4905]

lot of the stories was a mixing of informations from various bees. they would switch back describing native bees dying to honey bees.

[@fragalot]

GMIOs sound good but companies like Monsanto are VERY restrictive and suspect.

[@QAlba1074]

"Bioengineered" GMO frankenfood destroys the gut microbiome.

[@stevenschnepp576]

Yeah, how awful of Monsanto to file suits against farmers who tried to steal their patented genes by actively filtering their crops for plants crossbred to have the trait.

[@deadreckoning6288]

They don't come more evil than Monsanto. Maybe Nestlé is on the same level. Definitely phizer and their pharma ilk....

[@harrywilson945]

An actual wonderful video that totally calls out the craziness of mainstream media.

[@rightwired]

Yes! This. And what about the rain forests? And the Ozone hole? And processed food? And whales? And the Coral Reef? Would love an update, Mr. Stossel.

[@stevenschnepp576]

The hole in the ozone layer is there, sometimes. It's mostly gone away, though, because the legislation banning the chemicals harmful to it was effective. Same with acid rain.

[@blackosprey2219]

The ozone hole is the one example where there was actually a serious problem, and sufficient global effort to ban the chemicals causing it. The hole started shrinking after the problem chems were banned.

[@jnseney]

Thanks for covering this.

[@michaelconran5252]

I'm a retired infantry Marine with no degrees. I do have a lot of common sense. The ecosystem breaths in and out. This cycle happens to rabbits, lemmings and many species, which no one hears about. A little research goes a long way. I live a happy and peaceful life, because I research first. The most important thing we should have learned is science is sold to the highest bidder. Another sad fact is, although scientists may be intellectually intelligent, they are weak and can be easily manipulated to "follow the science," due to political threats.

[@margricks]

And the money thrown their way. Don't forget about the money!!!

[@michaelconran5252]

@@margricks all about the $$$

[@margricks]

@@michaelconran5252 Yep. Absolutely!

[@joesharbach3883]

I can accept the information presented in this video while simultaneously continuing to care about bees. They still play an important role and I want for them to do well. I'm just glad to hear bees are doing better than what the media is telling us.

[@mballer]

A bee's life span is less than two months.

[@perspectiveiseverything1694]

Yes, and I'm not going to suddenly ignore Big Ags bad practices.

[@Scoots1994]

Penn and Teller did an episode on their BS show about organic food. My favorite part was when they asked the organic buyers whether they were willing to pick the half of the population that was going to starve to death when we went all organic.

[@Speed.Racer.5]

Yeah, except today, they'd probably be more than willing to tell you who should die.

[@Scoots1994]

@@Speed.Racer.5 That's more real than I'd like it to be.

[@josephfisher426]

That's overstated; a lot of people could shift into actual food production instead of the business of moving corporate food around.

[@Scoots1994]

@@josephfisher426 But the production volume by acre would go down so there would be less food. If you think we'll add a bunch more land to farming then we run headlong into a problem we have with the amount of land being farmed now in that we don't have enough water for what we have.

[@josephfisher426]

@@Scoots1994 How many of those calories that would be missing are wasted anyway? There are also inefficiencies (definitely including water consumption!) in monocropping, and in doing so for animal feed. I agree that we're not likely to be motivated to make everything organic, but it shouldn't be discouraged either.

[@loszhor]

Anyone old enough to remember when they said African killer bees were going to invade the States and sting everyone to death?

[@adamc1966]

Yep and in the 70s it was fire ants 😂

[@mindyobeeznis]

They claim to be against big agraculture but their policies kill small farms

[@Zundfolge]

That's because they are liars. They are for big agriculture, they just want it to be part of big government (and its much easier to control a handful of large companies than thousands of little ones). They are communists, they don't care about the environment, nor the people they care about their own power.

[@margricks]

Which is the main goal of the progressives. They are gobbling up small farms, including the country of China is buying out some, too. Gates is another one buying. Gee.................I wonder why??????

[@JDinUSA]

Another great one Mr. Stossel. Thank you.