Does High Fructose Courn Syrup kill bees?
This is rather disturbing. The practice of feeding bees HFCS and not honey also reminds me of what is done to cows. Instead of feeding them grass they feed them nonsense!
There has been a lot of talk recently about "Bee Colony Collapse Disorder," where whole bee hives mysteriously die off, and it's causing farmers panic. One theory is that it's caused by a virus, but another theory focuses on what those bees are eating. You guessed it, it's no longer honey. Commercial beekeepers sell all the honey, and feed the bees High Fructose Corn Syrup(HFCS). (I have not seen any reason for the nouvelle bee cuisine, but I suppose it's to save money – same as why humans are fed the stuff as well.) I remember reading this a few months ago and thinking, that cannot be good for bees.
The point is that its not anywhere near being natural!
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