Heather Callaghan
Not just a possible alternative - but totally a preferable alternative to antibiotics whenever possible. People are already using this incredible healing substance without having needed a nod of approval from researchers. And no, we're not talking about using the actual bees.
While consumers of raw honey can tell you that it works wonders, researchers wanted to know exactly why? What have they been missing? What are the exact compounds that make raw honey nature's antibiotic? How has it protected bee colonies forever (until recent obstacles set in)?
Raw honey has been used against infections for millennia, before honey - as we now know it - was manufactured and sold in stores. So what is the key to its antimicrobial properties?
According to a new study, it lies in an unpatented technique...
Heather Callaghan
What will ultimately feed the world? Is it really genetic engineering? Is it biodiversity?
What can maintain and stoke that diversity - I mean, make it really flourish with bountiful food using less land?
Of course, using this discovery might mean severing ties with monolithic Big Ag and chemical corps whose actions could block this dream from becoming reality. Monoculture fans need not apply.
Heather Callaghan
With friends like these...
Recently I wrote about a large Canada-wide surveillance initiative: Look Who's Behind This Large Study to "Help the Bees". Following the money trail, one could see that Canada's government was placing "hope" for an answer unto major international biotech and agricultural companies such as Monsanto, BASF, Bayer, Syngenta etc... The very same companies whose chemical products are implicated for diminishing bee populations and have everything to gain by "finding" an answer that doesn't point back to them.
Does that seem like a gross conflict of interest to you?
It may or may not surprise you to know that similar shadow puppeteering is going on in the UK.
Heather Callaghan
