Organic honey under threat due to widespread pesticide use

Its sad news: The use of pesticides is so ubiquitous and so extensive that organic honey is now under major threat.

grubstreet.com: America’s Pesticides Are Threatening Organic Honey

This is very much the kind of America that I see President Obama and the oligarchy as having led the United States to, along with all the other extensive damage, in their process of the Walmart-ization of America.

Even though organic food is more popular than ever, his administration has adamantly supported “conventional” agriculture – i.e. the disgusting, big agribusiness companies which bribe Congress extensively – and basically ignored organic agriculture and its core values. His appointing Vilsac as the Secretary of Agriculture almost immediately after initially getting into office was a clear sign that he did not give a fuck about the environment, about health, and about the tens of millions of American citizens who want to protect and preserve our environment and eat healthy.

I sincerely hope that, as part of his anti-oligarchy stance, President Trump will take steps to block the agribusiness giants’ stranglehold over Congress and enable organic agriculture to thrive.

Honey is the only “animal” product that I really consume and I usually only have it a few times per year under certain circumstances, usually related to respiratory infections. Yet I still think its important to care about what happens to honeybees and apiaries.