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From the article: "suspected culprits ranged from pesticides to genetically modified food".

Q. What do pesticides, GM food and mobile phones have in common?

A. Technophobic nature-romanticists hate them.

Those things are just the "usual suspects". They get blamed for anything.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide_%28toxic_to_bees%29

I haven't read GMO as a possible culprit, but I have seen monoculture, made possible by pesticides and GMOs, as a possibility. Industrial agriculture is rather sterile, not really providing a balanced diet for bees (or us for that matter). The cell phone thing is just batty though.


Remarkable- that list supports your conclusion way more when you insert an item! Darn those irrational technophobic nature-romanticists, putting mobile phones into lists where they don't belong.




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