Extinction
As with all things political and all things government, we have a choice not only with the food we eat but with the methods by which they are grown and harvested. At some point we must make decisions for ourselves based upon health, budget and moral considerations.
Busting the Myth: There are No Happy Cows, 6/2/12
Tack it on to the growing list of mysterious animal die-offs. Watermen working the oyster fishing business in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay say the massive die-off of oysters in the area this year is due to recent hurricanes and tropical storms that have swept fresh water and debris into bay waters, but authorities are still investigating the situation.
Massive oyster die-offs in Chesapeake Bay leave watermen jobless, local economy in shambles, 11/11/11
Authorities say that in all, 56 exotic animals escaped from a farm in Muskingum County last night, and one could still be missing this afternoon.
Of those animals, 49 were killed. Six animals -- a grizzly bear, three leopards and two monkeys -- were captured alive and taken to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, and a monkey and a grey wolf were at large. The animals that were killed included 18 tigers, nine male lions, eight female lions, six black bears, three mountain lions, two grizzly bears, one baboon and two wolves, Sheriff Matt Lutz said. The escaped monkey poses a danger because it is infected with herpes, the sheriff said.
The sheriff said it is possible that the missing monkey was eaten by a large cat.
56 exotic animals escaped from farm near Zanesville; 49 killed by authorities, 10/19/11
You have likely seen them dancing through the air and gracing the petals and leaves of various plants and shrubs. But a new study published in the journal Insect Conservation and Diversity says that the popular Monarch butterfly, which is an absolute necessity for farmers, is on the decline. And the cause? Genetically-modified (GM) crops like corn, soy, and cotton, which today blanket millions of acres of American cropland.
Though not necessarily in the same vein as bees and bats, Monarch butterflies are still considered to be migrational pollinators. They travel very long distances and often inadvertently pollinate various flowers and plants. But Monarchs rely on milkweed plants to breed -- milkweed is actually the only plant on which Monarch larvae can feed -- and the use of pesticides in GM agriculture is contributing to the elimination of milkweed, and thus the elimination of Monarchs.
GMOs killing off Monarch butterflies, report finds, 7/29/11
The question of whether chimpanzees and other primates should be used for biomedical research is an issue that has recently been reinvigorated thanks to 186 chimps at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico who are waiting for their verdict of either life in a grassy sanctuary or a life of torture in the name of medical research.
For years, these chimps were used for biomedical research, primarily for hepatitis and HIV. Lennie, once a space chimp, has been documented as suffering atrocities, including being infected with HIV and hepatitis as well as enduring four spinal taps, a bone-marrow biopsy and repeated blood draws, to name a few. All of these very stressful experiments, no doubt, contributed to his death, apparently from heart disease, in 2002.
Medical atrocities routinely committed against chimpanzees in the name of science, 7/18/11
Sixty-seven golden eagles are killed each year by the turbines at the California Bay Area's Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area. This average number of annual golden eagle deaths due from blunt force trauma from collision with turbine blades exceeds the number of new eagles born each year.
Wind turbines decimating populations of golden eagles and Bats, 7/8/11
An otherwise highly-resilient species of shark, the leopard shark, is turning up dead all over the northern California coast, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to reports, dozens of leopard sharks have either washed ashore dead since April, or have been found so badly injured and in pain that the creatures were literally pounding their heads into the sand in what some locals said appeared to be suicide attempts.
Dozens of sharks washing up dead in California, 5/18/11
It's one of the signs of the approaching food collapse our world will soon be facing: Honeybees are disappearing at a truly alarming rate all around the world. Up to 30 percent of the honeybee population is collapsing in North America every year, and there's no end in sight to "the silence of the bees." Honeybees, of course, pollinate about a third of all the food consumed by first-world nations. Without them, the global food supply crashes and food prices skyrocket. The human population, not surprisingly, would plummet. Honeybees are absolutely crucial to the chain of life on planet Earth, and they are dying in record numbers.
Cell phone towers may be ultimate cause of honeybee population collapse, 5/16/11
And about the proposed tar sands project, the Indigenous Environmental Network (in Canada, where they have tar sands mining) states: “Water is needed in huge amounts in tar sands production and in all other construction stages of tar sands infrastructure across the continent. It takes five liters of water to produce one of usable petrol…Waste tailings ponds are so vast as to be visible from outer space at this early point in production.”
This, while the BLM removes our wild horses from our sight. And “leases” (sells) our public lands for devastation.
An open letter to the BLM, 5/9/11
Laura Pfizenmayer walks the beach in Gulf Shores every morning. On Saturday, she was shocked with what she found.
"When we came down we saw dead fish. They were everywhere. I mean you don't have to find them. You can turn around and see them. They were everywhere," said Pfizenmayer.
Hundreds of dead fish wash up all over beaches in Alabama, 3/29/11
Several hundreds of dead starfish have been found thrown onto the beach north Wales, reports the BBC.
Naval officer Barry Davies said that the starfish can be thrown away during spring tides, but it is not clear why they had migrated so far from the coastline.
Chairman of the Committee in Barmouth Harbour intends to hold an official inquiry to determine the causes of the incident.
Hundreds of dead starfish thrown on the coast of the British Isles, 3/27/11
For several decades, colony collapse disorder (CCD) -- a mysterious condition where entire bee colonies die for seemingly no obvious reason -- has been inflicting bee populations across both Europe and the US. But scientists from the United Nations (UN) say the phenomenon is now a global crisis, afflicting bees across China, Japan, and Africa, as well as in other places.
The report, issued by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), explains what many NaturalNews readers already know -- mainly that without bees, there will be no more food. Bees are one of nature's primary pollinators, and over 70 percent of the world's food supply relies on them to grow.
"Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature," said Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director. "Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature's services in a world of close to seven billion people."
Mass honeybee deaths now occurring worldwide, says UN, 3/14/11
Redondo Beach officials said initial assessments suggest oxygen depletion in the King Harbor basins caused the massive fish die-off.
City Manager Bill Workman said city officials with the help of marine experts would help determine if there was any environmental issue involved. Tests are now being performed on the water as officials begin removing the dead fish, which city officials estimated to be in the millions.
"There are no visible signs of any toxins that might have caused [the die-off] and our early assessment is that this was oxygen depletion," Workman said. “This is similar to what we experienced five years ago but that was distinctly a red tide event but there’s no discoloration of the water, no associated foaming in the waves, Workman said. "There are no oil slicks or leaking of substances into the water."
Workman noted that the harbor had been teeming in recent weeks with bait fish that even after their deaths "had no signs of degradation."
Bald eagles in the Comox Valley of British Columbia, Can., are having a difficult time finding food these days. A recent report in The Province explains that the birds are literally starving and falling from the sky, adding to the string of strange animal events that has occurred in numerous places around the world in the past few months. "This is the most we have ever had," said Maj Birch, manager of the Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society, concerning the excessive number of starving and dying eagles the group has seen in recent days. "Many of them are downed before they are brought in. They are on the ground and they're too weak to fly away. Some of them are actually falling out of the sky."
Millions of dead fish at King Harbor in Redondo Beach, 3/8/11
Baby dolphins are washing up dead along the oil-soaked US Gulf Coast at more than 10 times the normal rate in the first birthing season since the BP disaster, researchers said.
Some 17 baby dolphin corpses have been found along the shorelines of Alabama and Mississippi in the past two weeks, The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies said.
"The average is one or two a month. This year we have 17, and February isn't even over yet," said Moby Solangi, director of the Gulfport, Mississippi-based institute.
"For some reason, they've started aborting or they were dead before they were born."
Baby dolphins dying along oil-soaked US Gulf Coast, 2/22/11
The world honey bee population has plunged in recent years, worrying beekeepers and farmers who know how critical bee pollination is for many crops. A number of theories have popped up as to why the North American honey bee population has declined--electromagnetic radiation, malnutrition, and climate change have all been pinpointed. Now a leaked EPA document reveals that the agency allowed the widespread use of a bee-toxic pesticide, despite warnings from EPA scientists.
Leaked Document: EPA Scientists Warned Of Bee-Toxic Pesticide. Agency Approved It Anyway.2/1/11
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is engaged in what can only be called an avian holocaust through its Bye Bye Blackbird program that has poisoned tens of millions of birds over the last decade. The USDA even reports the number of birds it has poisoned to death in a PDF document posted on the USDA website.
USDA found to be poisoning bird populations, causing mass die-offs involving millions of birds, 1/22/11
There’s some dead dolphins down on the shore… a couple of sea turtles… Don’t really want to show you those pictures, they’re not very pretty… I’m not really sure why all these fish are dying.”
Dead dolphins, sea turtles, and tons of angelfish in Galveston, Texas, 1/21/11
In the latest of a string of mass animal deaths, 10,000 cows and buffalo have died in Vietnam.
Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development confirmed the news this week that more than 10,000 cows and buffalos died nationwide due to harsh weather conditions.
10,000 Cattle Dead In Vietnam: Cows, Buffalo Part Of Mass Die-Off, 1/21/11
Here's an updated timeline of the mysterious animal deaths now happening around the world. Conventional explanations for these deaths now border on the outlandish: A bird die-off event in Romania is now being blamed on "drunkenness," for example.
Here's the updated list through January 14, 2011, in reverse date order.
Updated timeline of mysterious animal deaths, 1/18/11
Concerns over mass animal deaths continue to mount with the news that around 200 cows have mysteriously been found dead in Wisconsin, as well as hundreds of seals washing ashore dead in Labrador, Canada.
Mass Animal Deaths Continue: Hundreds Of Cows, Seals Found Dead, 1/17/11
New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that another vitally important pollinator, the bumblebee, is in serious decline. According to the figures, there has been a shocking 96 percent decline in four major species of the bumblebee, and an up to 87 percent decrease in their overall geographic coverage.
Researchers discover a shocking 96 percent decline in four major bumblebee species, 1/7/11
In a week that saw unexplained massive bird deaths in the southern United States, up to 100 birds were found lying in a snow-covered street in Sweden Wednesday, officials said.
"Most were dead," Christer Olofsson of rescue services in the southwestern town of Falkoeping said of the 50 to 100 jackdaw birds, a type of crow.
New mass death of birds in Sweden, 1/6/11
Over 70 dead bats were found dead under a bridge in Tucson! Pantano/Speedway The CFR MS Media liars claimed that it may have been from "Warm Conditions"! Is that why there was ice on the bridge? Lets find out what caused this! Ron Paul 2012! This story came from the Tucson CFR lying mainstream media the "Az Daily Star" Were Chemtrails the cause?
BUNCHES OF BATS FOUND DEAD in TUCSON! 1/6/11
A Colorado beekeeper recently obtained a leaked document revealing that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knows a popular crop pesticide is killing off honey bees, but has allowed its continued approval anyway. Despite opposition from its own scientists, EPA officials first gave the a-okay to Bayer CropScience's toxic pesticide clothianidin in 1993 based on the company's own flawed safety studies. But now it has been revealed that the EPA knew all along about the dangers of clothianidin and decided to just ignore them.
Leaked document: EPA knowingly approved bee-killing pesticide, 1/5/11
I recently wrote about a study, funded by the German chemical giant Bayer, purporting to show that Bayer's blockbuster pesticide clothianidin doesn't harm honeybees when applied as a treatment to seeds.
The EPA had required the study before it would register clothianidin. Years before it finally got the study in 2007, the EPA granted the neonicotinoid pesticide "partial registration," and farmers promptly began to apply it to millions of acres of farmland across the country. Meanwhile, a mysterious phenomenon called "colony collapse disorder" arose -- across the nation, beekeepers were finding it increasingly impossible to keep their hives alive.
Update: Bayer responds to criticism of its potentially bee-killing pesticide, 12/20/11
Thanks to a joint investigation from academics and the Department of Homeland Security, the culprit in the Case of the Honeybee Killer has been found.
Over the last four years, 20 to 40 percent of the honeybee colonies in the U.S. have mysteriously collapsed. The killer has remained unknown--until now. A team of entomologists, along with military scientists from the Department of Homeland Security, have a new prime suspect (or rather, suspects), as shown in a new report on the science website PLoS One. A tag-team of a virus and a fungus show every sign of being the culprit. Now it's just a matter of eradicating that dastardly partnership.
The Case of the Mass Honeybee Killer Has a New Prime Suspect,10/7/10
The Bureau of Land Management is deceiving the American public with their plan to eliminate all of our publicly owned wild horses off of our publicly owned lands. And, they want your taxpayer dollars to pay for “counseling for employees and contractors that have to euthanize healthy horses because it is very stressful”!
Would taxpayer money be better spent prosecuting the BLM “team” employees (listed below) for collusion and conspiracy? You be the judge.
The BLM is colluding and conspiring against wild horses and you!7/1/10
The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed.
Their disappearance has caused alarm throughout Europe and North America where campaigners have blamed agricultural pesticides, climate change and the advent of genetically modified crops for what is now known as 'colony collapse disorder.' Britain has seen a 15 per cent decline in its bee population in the last two years and shrinking numbers has led to a rise in thefts of hives.
Mobile phones responsible for disappearance of honey bee, 5/29/10
The Cove" is a powerful and effective piece of advocacy filmmaking, but it's difficult to watch it without thinking of subtitles like "The Place Where Evil Dwells" or "The Little Town With the Really Big Secret." Which is no accident.
"The Cove's" story of a quiet village in Japan that specializes in clandestine dolphin slaughter is quite consciously structured as a thriller by director Louie Psihoyos who won an audience award for it at Sundance.
The film follows a group of determined environmental commandos as it attempts to document what goes on in a deceptively tranquil lagoon. The leader of the group, and hands down the most compelling person in the film, is Ric O'Barry, who became famous decades ago as the man who both captured and trained the five dolphins who collectively became TV's Flipper and so helped start the multimillion-dollar seaquarium industry.
"The Cove": A Documentary of Dolphin Slaughter, 7/31/09
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