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Topic: Genetically Modified..... Bees?! o.o
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Thu 02/09/12 12:18 PM

I keep hearing about this company.
Through circulars, web letters, e-mails, etc.

Apparently they are a huge corporation that, I'm assuming specializes in genetics of all sorts. Don't quote me.

What I do know about them is that they are apparently one of the most detested companies on the planet yet somehow rack in a revenue of more than $10.5 billion a year.

Monsanto recently, or maybe not so recently anymore, purchased Beeologics who is mostly known for developing the groundbreaking research into the RNAi technology application on honeybees.

Honeybees you say?

Yes, a bee-specific virus that is known as IAPV, or Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus, which originated in Australia but was named in Israel in 2002.

Now this takes me back to my original point.

Why would a genetics company, like Monsanto, want to buy a a company like Beeologics, if not for wanting to smother out competition (like Bayer and Syngenta who also vied to buy it).

So, does this mean we, in maybe the new future, will be stung by a genetically modified bee? One that's, say, pesticide resistant, or maybe able to sting and survive?

Now I ask this..

Cause when I played it out in my head, I started to realize I was teetering on the brink of entering an area I've tried not to fully enter, but more just peek in from the outside and keep an open mind..

...a conspiracy theorist.

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Thu 02/09/12 12:24 PM


I keep hearing about this company.
Through circulars, web letters, e-mails, etc.

Apparently they are a huge corporation that, I'm assuming specializes in genetics of all sorts. Don't quote me.

What I do know about them is that they are apparently one of the most detested companies on the planet yet somehow rack in a revenue of more than $10.5 billion a year.

Monsanto recently, or maybe not so recently anymore, purchased Beeologics who is mostly known for developing the groundbreaking research into the RNAi technology application on honeybees.

Honeybees you say?

Yes, a bee-specific virus that is known as IAPV, or Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus, which originated in Australia but was named in Israel in 2002.

Now this takes me back to my original point.

Why would a genetics company, like Monsanto, want to buy a a company like Beeologics, if not for wanting to smother out competition (like Bayer and Syngenta who also vied to buy it).

So, does this mean we, in maybe the new future, will be stung by a genetically modified bee? One that's, say, pesticide resistant, or maybe able to sting and survive?

Now I ask this..

Cause when I played it out in my head, I started to realize I was teetering on the brink of entering an area I've tried not to fully enter, but more just peek in from the outside and keep an open mind..

...a conspiracy theorist.

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laugh laugh

JOIN THE CLUB.drinker


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Thu 02/09/12 12:25 PM



Besides they have a bad history with the agent orange thing...
now their part of pfizer pharmaceuticals, so they still suck.


Monsanto and Dow Chemicals!
Monsanto and Pfizer are separate Corporations.


Yea, I know their separate corps.

There is some pharma monsanto owned, pfizer bought...
something along those lines, not very educated on the
connection but there is one.

I do NOT trust any of the pharmaceuticals or any of their bedfellows.


..me either, Lady, me either!

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