My honeybee question. Has Halliburton gotten its hands on the Beekeeper business?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

This just has all the hallmarks of something botched badly by Halliburton, KBR or one of their however many subsidiaries.

I would imagine being a beekeeper is an intricate business. It seems to be a fairly lucrative one, as well, which worries me that as Big Agra is laying waste at the alter of ethanol, and organics are gaining lots of customers, the demand had to have increased for Beekeepers.

Just the kind of situation in which a Halliburton sub-subsidiary or perhaps a Jack Abramoff Pioneer might delusionally think they can make a killing.

I ask because this has now become an official corporomedia "crisis"(big story on NBC News tonight, all over NPR, etc.) The disappearance of the honeybees. :shrug: MKJ

edited to add the obligatory :tinfoilhat:

[whistle]

1. That is a strong possibility along with Carlyle Group

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. Carlyle? Methinks the Saudis would have little, if no, interest in honeybees. However, a Pioneer or

a Halliburton/KBR subsidiary may want to wring every last potential profit from the pollination business. MKJ

[whistle]

3. You are probably correct as to Carlyle, but corporate black ops

...for the purpose of profit maximization is most likely behind this

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. We arrive at the same conclusion via only slightly different paths.

:toast: MKJ

[kestrel91316]

4. Personally, I'm more inclined to blame Monsanto. They probably

have genetically engineered some disease to wipe our our honeybees, and engineered their own patented ones immune to the disease to force the beekeepers to buy.

It's sort of their MO, I've noticed.

[hobbit709]

6. Climate changes

inbreeding of the bees make for less genetic diversity among bee populations. Just like having all the plants in a field of whatever the same variety- a disease wipes all because there's no variations with greater resistance. Domesticated honeybees have major problems with this. The so-called "killer bees" were originally an attempt to improve their resistance. Funny thing is, the same was done in the late 19th century because the domesticated bee had become too "tame" for its own good.