Stop Global Warming or Dessert Gets It

Okay, now we really need to worry.

Ice-cream maker Haagen-Dazs is looking for a piece of the eco-sweet action, too. The company relies on honey bees for ingredients like strawberries, raspberries, macadamia nuts, and of course, honey, and it recently announced plans to fund research into bee Colony Collapse Disorder.

Hurray for research. Now if only they would cop to the fact that their own suppliers might be a factor.

BusinessWeek editor Heather Green put it this way:

[W]hile it’s great that Haagen-Dazs is contributing $250,000 to research the problem, one of the bigger underlying issues is simply the monoculture farming. It means that you have to truck in bees to farms in California and Florida so that they can pollinate hundreds of thousands of acres of fruit plants and trees. It weakens them and provides a huge petri dish for exchanging diseases.

And this is the theme that keeps coming across in so many of the environmental issues we have, whether it’s sprawl, or highways, or ethanol, or the pecans that Haagen-Dazs uses in it’s popular ice cream flavors.

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[RICH]

Global warming is a stupid, grossly exagerated hoax.