Illinois illegally seizes Bees Resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup; Kills remaining Queens

[flamingdem]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/illinois-illegally-seizes-bees-resistant-to-monsantos-roundup-kills-remaining-queens/5336210

The Illinois Ag Dept. illegally seized privately owned bees from renowned naturalist, Terrence Ingram, without providing him with a search warrant and before the court hearing on the matter, reports Prairie Advocate News.

Behind the obvious violations of his Constitutional rights is Monsanto. Ingram was researching Roundup’s effects on bees, which he’s raised for 58 years. “They ruined 15 years of my research,” he told Prairie Advocate, by stealing most of his stock.

A certified letter from the Ag Dept.’s Apiary Inspection Supervisor, Steven D. Chard, stated:

“During a routine inspection of your honeybee colonies by … Inspectors Susan Kivikko and Eleanor Balson on October 23, 2011, the bacterial disease ‘American Foulbrood’ was detected in a number of colonies located behind your house…. Presence of the disease in some of your colonies was confirmed via test results from the USDA Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland that analyzed samples collected from your apiary….”

Ingram can prove his bees did not have foulbrood, and planned to do so at a hearing set in April, but the state seized his bees at the end of March. They have not returned them and no one at the Ag Dept. seems to know where his bees are.

[villager]

1. ...in case anyone had questions about who the government really works for...

n/t

[flamingdem]

2. Sigh.

I need to learn much more about this issue but it's really heating up. Too late for bees?

[Scootaloo]

3. Quickly, we need to sing Joan Baez songs in protest!

[villager]

4. Or maybe just snark at each other on the internet?

[limpyhobbler]

5. I kind of miss bees. nt

[BrotherIvan]

6. +1

[JimDandy]

7. Me too. n/t

[NickB79]

8. Not this BS again

It's a story that's over a year old, and the beekeeper has been shown to be a quack in the apiary field.

It's also not illegal to seize hives found to be infected with foulbrood without a warrant or court order in most states, as it is so dangerous to other bee populations that laws have been written specifically to rapidly contain it's spread. For example: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/wvcode/ChapterEntire.cfm?chap=19&art=13

As for Mr. Ingram stating he can prove his bees didn't have foulbrood, false positives for it are very, very rare. This is due to the fact that infected hives have many telltale signs that make lab confirmations more of a legality than a necessity. Even if he could present an uninfected colony from his property, that doesn't negate the infected ones the inspectors found. To prevent the spread of AFB, the entire area was quarantined and destroyed.

Finally, Round-Up resistance? Round-Up is a HERBICIDE, not an insecticide. All the studies done so far on bee population declines have found correlations to INSECTICIDES, not herbicides.

[GeorgeGist]

9. Lets not let science get in the way of stupidity.