Ice Cream Dissapearing... Bees To Blame!
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Could strawberry ice cream disappear from our lives? What about vanilla Swiss almond?
The folks at Häagen-Dazs are worried enough that they and others have mounted a campaign to halt the shocking decline of honey bees and other pollinators of strawberry plants, almond trees and the rest of the roughly 90 percent of terrestrial plant life that needs pollination.
Officials of the Oakland-based company told Congress today that more than 40 percent of its product's flavors, derived from fruits and nuts, depend on honeybees. Without bees, fruits and nuts cannot exist.
"How would our federal government respond if on out of every three cows was dying?" Maryann Frazier, a bee expert at the University of Pennsylvania, asked during testimony to the House subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
The folks at Häagen-Dazs are worried enough that they and others have mounted a campaign to halt the shocking decline of honey bees and other pollinators of strawberry plants, almond trees and the rest of the roughly 90 percent of terrestrial plant life that needs pollination.
Officials of the Oakland-based company told Congress today that more than 40 percent of its product's flavors, derived from fruits and nuts, depend on honeybees. Without bees, fruits and nuts cannot exist.
"How would our federal government respond if on out of every three cows was dying?" Maryann Frazier, a bee expert at the University of Pennsylvania, asked during testimony to the House subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
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