Bayer and the bees | DW Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2020
- Insecticides are sometimes necessary in farming. But some substances, like neonicotinoids, kill not only pests but bees as well. Now the Bayer Group, one of the main manufacturers of these pesticides, is coming under pressure.
Scientists around the world have found that neonicotinoids are the main cause of mass bee deaths. Research has shown that a number of insecticides should have been banned long ago. For years, the Bayer Group has sought to silence the critics and pressure scientists into not publishing their findings.
For more than two decades, experts have been warning of the negative effects of neonicotinoids, with a whole range of studies published on the subject. It would appear that the industry, aided by the authorities, managed to successfully delay any ban on these substances for years. Studies show that neonicotinoids not only kill pests, but also bees and other beneficial insects. Dutch toxicologist Henk Tennekes was among the first to recognize the problem. He believes neonicotinoids are the most toxic insecticides ever produced. He discovered a study carried out by Bayer itself, back in 1991, which found that a particular neonicotinoid had a negative effect on the nervous system of a fly species. These effects were said to be "irreversible”. Tennekes then confronted the company with his findings. He was taken aback by the response: "Bayer now claims” he says, "that the binding of critical receptors in the nervous system by neonicotinoids is reversible. So they’re contradicting the results of their own study. ... If they had considered what impact this substance has, they would have had to take it off the market."
Scientists in France also analyzed mass bee deaths and likewise identified an insecticide made by Bayer as the culprit. Toxicologist Jean-Marc Bonmatin reveals how the company then sought to prevent the results from being published. Meanwhile, toxicologists in Japan discovered that neonicotinoids also harm other creatures, such as fish and river crabs. There too, Bayer sought to suppress publication.
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As a child (born 1956) I was living close to a huge Bayer plant in North-Rhine Westphalia. From an early age, I was suffering badly from chest infections and chronic bronchitis. Over the following years, I remember my parents talking about the nasty yellow cloud that was combing our district whenever the winds allowed. It was kind of a yellow-brown and badly smelling gas-like cloud which settled down while lingering for hours if not days.
Then, I soon began to realise that my condition worsened dramatically whenever this cloud appeared. My condition never improved for as long as I was living in Germany until 1989.
Once during that time, my father took me for a ride in his car and showed me the production site of Bayer. I must have been about 12 years of age back then. The stench that hit me became unbearable when we came close to the site while I realised, that the whole area surrounding that dreaded site appeared in a yellow-brown colour which was left from the fumes that were produced by those incredible huge chimneys. Indeed, I not only smelled but also tasted the toxicity of their deadly chemicals. In addition to my own experiences, I later researched that area and its surroundings (the city of Krefeld, near Düsseldorf) and found out that most of the population living in close vicinity of the Bayer plant suffered from Asthma and Bronchitis.
In addition, the river Rhine, which Bayer was using as sewage, was so intoxicated that it was declared 'biological dead in the seventies for decades to come. Again, later research brought to light that Bayer was not the only killer of biological life in our heavily industrialised area as there are Hoechst, Henkel, Thyssen and Krupp to name but just a few. The colour of the river Rhine used to be dark brown-green, and I am convinced that anybody, who would have been brought in contact with its water would have suffered from intoxication.
As my condition never improved, I eventually gave in to my English friends in 1988 and relocated to England in 1989. Within six months of my arrival in Lancashire, my bronchitis disappeared for good. The power, these companies have over the governments and regulating bodies is frightening. Their 'killing spree' for the sakes of profit is insane, and to this date, I cannot understand, that people do not stand up to that madness.
good thing you moved out...and glad ur healthy now..
Thank you for telling your story ,best wishes and good health to you
Thanks for sharing .
Thanks a lot for sharing mate
Bayer is pure evil. Also a big player in WW1, WW2 and the Vietnam war. Killed & handicapped millions of people.
So nice to see real investigative journalism. It’s becoming exceedingly rare
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, @Nathan! We're glad you like our content. :-)
Agreed. DW is definitely one of the more honest networks out there. Not totally free and clear of corporate whitewashing, but FAR better than 95% of Western "journalism".
@@billmcgubbins1476 As someone who lives in the US. I completely agree. News in the united states is only republican or democrat bias. We even have an entertainment show named fox news. I would instead get all my news from other countries.
@@TheDrTrouble same in Russia my fellow potato
Real investigative journalism should be the norm and not the exception. The human race, the public, has a right to expect this; but even more important is the content, the information, that Bayer and the production of Neonicotinoids are poisonous and "they" knew it, that should be the focus of everyone who watched this documentary.
Since 1999 and early 2000's "they" knew how toxic it was. Killing bees, other insects and larger species. Alarm bells everywhere should be going off and all governments should be banning the use of Neonicotinoids, not just France.
No more studies, just ban the poison. Screw Bayer and other companies and their profits. Any positive discoveries that "they" have made is outweighed by purposeful denial and manufacturing of the murderous chemicals that they themselves know are poisonous to the bee population, as well as other living creatures.
Print a list of all known Neonicotinoids and check the labels on all household products you use to protect your pets, plants, and your household🐝🌻
This is not just a question of bees. There is an 80% collapse in insects. Bird populations are collapsing. This cannot be good for human beings.
yes peoples do not realize that insects are the food base for birds, insects disappear, birds are starving. i feel a shame that my specie can be so destructive of is own environment for what we call money who is just a mind concept.
Not only are they killing bees and other species of insects. They are killing people .and nothing is done about it couse we have a government thats more concerned about money than people.
You can thank cats for the birds issue. Cats are unique in that they kill for sport not food.
@@Luckingsworth You're joking right?
@@Luckingsworth I mean, cats do kill birds of course but not on the levels we're talking about here.
DW documentaries are more of a sermon to me. I simply "watch and pray..."Thank you so much.
It is badass of DW to publish this. Thanks.
Let’s spread widely!
Thank you for watching and sharing!
@@DWDocumentary Just subscribed your channel. Please keep up the good work!
I think breaking the law and concealing facts is a corporate normal, rather than isolated events. These poisoners need to be stopped, and held accountable.
Farmers in India are also protesting against these companies for the past 7 months and yet govt is sold to Ambani, Adani, company jerks!!
@@green___apple Even Australia, with its advanced science has sold out to Bayer. They are just too powerful.
"Rules for thee but not for me."
There are many movements to make ecocide an international crime such as stop ecocide, it might be a good idea to spread these initiatives and/or participate (myself included...)
Do they break the law, or provide the financial support needed to align the laws with their interests?
I've been raised by my grandparents who lived all their lives in a little village south Romania. I remember seeing, as a child, those red seeds all over the road when the combine harvesters were going to the fields. All adults warned the children not to play with those seeds. People used to leave their ducks and geese on the road, so they could go freely to the pond, and when the harvesting of corn would start, many birds died by poisoning with those seeds. After a while, I think they stopped using that insecticide, but nowadays they still use all kinds of chemicals and it shows in the ecosystem.
This eye opening investigative documentary needs more views to raise more awareness
It’s really a shame that the agriculture minister didn’t allowed the interview to happen, that meant she knew what’s happening with the pesticide. The German taxpayers are financing a ministry that doesn’t do absolutely nothing to avoid hazardous substances for the environment, living creatures, animals and humans. It’s no reason to have an agriculture ministry at all, the country most likely would be better without it. Thanks Deutschland Welle for informing us!
It's much worse than a corrupt agriculture ministry. Sue and see. Govt. is an elite of self-serving politicians and bureaucrats. ALL GOVT. How do they get away with it? Easily, when the public gives them a monopoly on governing. There is no competing govt., therefore no accountability. Whose to blame? Who created and keeps the govt. alive? The people. They put up with a form of govt. that is coercive, violent, immoral and inhuman. Why? The people are told any other system would result in chaos, that govt. is somehow different from the private sector that has to compete for their support. And they believe this unsupported lie despite the massive evidence (war, injustice, corruption, theft, social unrest) to the contrary. The public is exploited like a slave and remains willfully blind to it. It's as if they are deluded by a mass superstition.
well thats what you get when voting conservative. are we seriously surprised?
The German people are financing a goverment that is EXTERMINATING them.
@Daniel deVilliers Well, it’s not the first time.
Don Duncan, you’re right but what should be done to avoid from keep happening what you’re mentioning? If, everyone would take a little time to find out what the whole government from left to right is doing only that would make a big difference, then everyone sending messages to the politicians will make them to be concerned with whatever they are doing. Now, the very best would be to have the Congress people elected no more than twice or three times at the most. When the politicians are sitting for too long they learn all the loopholes to get elected over and over again, and the worst of all by sitting for to long they’re easily targeted by large corporations and that’s the initial or first step into corruption.
I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I have 4 large lilacs, a Mayday tree and a Contoneaster Bush. I have not seen a single bee this spring. 20 years ago the flowers on these plants were covered in bees.
The result is no fruit on the mayday tree, no seeds on the lilac trees, and no fruit on the Contoneasters.
I noticed the same thing in the Upper Midwest in the USA. The crab apple trees would blossom and not one bee. 20-30 years ago they would have been humming with activity.
@@thezfunk 2005?
I live in N Vancouver and saved a queen bee from my window the other day but before that haven't been blessed with there presents lately , its rare to see them here to now a days and I live in the middle of a rainforest which is normally full of them , but I do see lots of wasps
Note that the multi billionaire now starts to buy lands.
They are scheming to control world food source.
If you read this, thank me later.
Farmers in India are also protesting against these companies for the past 7 months and yet govt is sold to Ambani, Adani, company jerks!!
Growing up in a rural area I watched the crayfish, turtles, rabbits, and insects disappear all in an 18 year timeline. As one path towards a better future there is an excellent book by Mark Shepard called Restorative Agriculture, it shows you a different path through the woods. Please read it...
@anzarazz another person to learn lots from is George Washington Carver!
Where exactly?
@anzarazz that one is dumb though
When i was a small child growing up on a farm. I climbed up into the spreader and was playing in the "red" corn. My Father freaked out. Hosed me down with water. Told me to change my clothes and bathe.
And yet, sadly, he probably fed you and your family and neighbors, the same poisoned corn. So sorry.
DW Documentary
. So many relevant doc's from you guys. should be mandatory for everyone to watch this channel . Great work !
Sounds like dictatorship
Takes away the power of choice
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yeah, DW's should be shown to schools and offices.
Important to know-bill gates has shares in beyers Monsanto
Vandana Shiva has been saying that insecticides from Bayer are awful for the environment. Finally someone else is saying it -- thank you DW!
Yes. Monsanto was acquired by Bayer a few years back
I am from Portugal, born in 1976. I always lived in this rural area in the Sorraia river valley, one of the most fertile lands in all country. I remember when i was a child the most of the cultures was made handly and allmost no chimecals were used, every kind of culture was highly profitable. In thous days there were a huge number of birds and insects that desapeared in a couple of decades. Like 20% to 30% of the population around had bees and honey was for free ( people used to give honey to people that had no bees). Then in 1986 Portugal went to EEC ( European comunity) and pesticides started to be used all around. Bees had totally desapeared ever since, many species of birds and insects too. The variety of cultures also desapeared, and big farmers only culture is now only corn and a few rice and tomatoes. I have my own biological farm but is hard to grow fruits and veggies because there are allmost no insects to pollinate the flowers. The damage done cannot be deleted, it Will last Forever. Is time for everybody to open their eyes and close every chemical factory. Life in our planet can't wait any longer.
The most horrifying thing about what companies like Bayer do is that the people who work there and those who are the managers and shareholders of these companies don’t care about the environment, in fact, life on Earth, which their products are threatening. How do we stop this?
So freakin disturbing. Last summer I still saw so many yellow fields. Thank you DW, these major crimes need awareness.
Now the briefings of this documentary should be published in newspapers and they should be shown in academic institutions to create awareness!!
World needs more documentary about bees like this one. Thank you DW!
This poor man you can tell he loves his bees 🐝
The underlying issue: Bayer acquired Monsanto (the agrichemical giant) a few years ago. Monsanto has assets such as a large phosphate mine in the USA. Phosphate is an extremely valuable and uncommon to find in large quantities, so this is how phosphate based detergents and pesticides began. Glyphosate and GMO crops are sold as a bundle to farmers? Monsanto developed that, and it's worse than traditional hybridized crops for yields and food safety. It forms a monocrop as well which is why bananas became all the same species, and a new fungus is threatening this species.
Monsanto is bad for the world. Bayer is just sanitizing the image of the Agent Orange producer, GMO/glyphosate producer, etc. by fully incorporating former Monsanto assets directly into the Bayer umbrella. Germany, please
This isn't even just the bee's this is the soil as well not being able to do a full cycle, only the growing of crops for a limited time until dirt becomes sand. It's an outrage that this company isn't yet closed down and any company like it.
Sick 🤮 of these corporate companies disrespecting our beautiful planet and all its wonderful creatures. The madness needs to stop 🛑
I used to have bee hives on my backyard. It's a heart breaking to see bees die...
Where were your bees?
Nothing from Bayer will enter my home knowingly from this day on.
Watch Dr Cass Ingram
He will show you the Alternative way
That's not the worst way of thinking. Good luck never eating any GMOs because they make most of them.
too late almost all the food in all grocery store or supermarkets are GMO from Monsanto 🤫🤫🤫
@@MichaelLee-nn9fo yeah, the doctors peddle Monsanto drugs too. My mom almost died from taking a drug hey doctor prescribed, and her fingers and toes started to rot. So messed up. She's been dealing with pain and the doctors scheduled her a week out instead of doing their jobs and bringing her in to the hospital asap. Especially considering it was their doing that put her in the pain she's in now.
@@MichaelLee-nn9fo putin has banned it all
DW has the best documentaries and quite informative from different parts of the World on what's really happening! Great work and keep up!
Is our Kenyan government aware of this?
I was born with a severe bee sting allergy and used to actually fear bees in swarms but I haven't seen a swarm of bees in over 10 years.
It breaks my heart so much how a person can love money so much and be so evil to the extent of denying the truth and destroying the environment knowingly. 😢 😢 😢 💔
They don't seem to realize they're wiping out all our future and theirs.
DW deserve great respect for the quality of their work. Thank you
Keep it up DW! Let the documentaries keep coming. Love each and every one of them!
I am new to DW channel and this is like classes we all missed in school.
Thank you for investigating and bringing truth out.
Since this pharma killers are still out killing our ecosystem and us humans, we should all stand on the ground and file international appeal.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, Gordana! Be sure to check out our channel for more content. :)
@@DWDocumentary , I like your investigative work. I have done FOIA request in my country Serbia for masks, vaccines and SARS-CoV-2 in November 2020, no reply from Ministry of Health. But head office where I appealed against Ministry of Health said in January 2022 we can take them to court. Next appeal in few days to take them to highest court. Wish me luck. With hope no corruption this time and justice and truth comes out. On 10th of February I am sending appeal they to be prosecuted for hiding FOIA informations I have requested. In my country corrupt government at moment trying to change Constitution. I voted NO to change of it and I was one of who were looking to stop corrupt votes at voting spot where I worked during voting. It won NO at that voting spot. But corrupt government saying YES to change of Constitution won in country.
_Only because of channels like DW , i could see this shocking fact even though i don't live in Germany_
*I feel for the bees & ultimately their citizens too* 🐝👬👭
The bees thank DW for highlighting there plite. Another great documentary.
Hi @Vicki Diana Coghlan,
You're welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting.
Best,
The DW Documentary Team
Honey bees are not the bees we need to be concerned about...they are not going extinct anytime soon and their numbers are increasing, not declining, as media etc has led us all to believe...it's native bee species that are in trouble and will cause issues once gone.
@@tude17 Do you think it's going to matter if the environment disappears under the hand of chemicals like this. We're all dead.
DW documentary, I salute you. Great job in bringing off the truth. This video should be viral. Everybody should know this
Thank you DW Documentary for research and journalist work. That is very important content
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Fab investigative work ! Not only the bees, but insects & pollination of plants being affected ! Also would like to thank you very much for dubbing the voices in English and not having to read those putrid, stinking subtitles !!
Love DW Channel !!
Thank you DW for making high quality documentary. I am sharing them as much as I can to my students around the world.
Hi @Punky Oliverio, thank you for watching and for the positive feedback :)
@@DWDocumentary thank YOU!
"You" know the bees situation is bad when me as a truck driver have to bring bees from one corner of USA( Fl) to other corner(CA) just for pollination,nothing to do with honey or honey profit. Bees keepers are paid by farmers... and is very, very expensive.
What are the quotation marks being used for.
@@nonya832 Florida to California is a distance of 2600 miles
As a beekeeper honey does not make me much money. Making bee colonies and sending them out to do pollination is my livelihood .
The overbreeding of Honeybees is OK so people can make a living?
Colony collapse has been blamed on almost all classes of pesticides, but not queen clones(genetic engineering)
@@PhiddyPford overbreeding now is necessary as we fucked up the ecosystem
My father was a medic in WWI and go to see the effects of poison gases and after becoming a medical doctor he would see the Bayer name on some medications and think about how the same company made the poison gases of the war.
Did he still prescribe them?
I miss those days when we used to run for our lives from bees atacking us. It was fun.
Now if I find a stray bee at home I try to save him.
sad this doco only has 220k views :(
@@antman7673 - Indicating signal that most people on Earth aren't interested in facts. Most people have zero interest in the truth.
Also sad my comment after 10 months has no likes, lol! But seriously, this is strategic, we will be reliant on fake food because there are no bees to pollinate plants and co2 promotes plant growth (which is what climate changers want to reduce). Who is pushing 'climate change' and co2 reduction? The same people who invest in Bayer and who invest in fake food - same companies owned by the same people!
Put in on your cycling channel mate, tell the whole world
Excluding: China, India and Russia, it seems that the rest of the earth's population is only 220,000 inhabitants ...lol
@@pinarellolimoncello We need to spread the word, tell everyone what's going on with our health.
I always say ancient people seemed to know more about the world. Caring for nature is suppose to be a priority but the lifestyle introduce by the west to the world is mostly focused at enriching one's self in the expense of others and the whole environment or ecosystem. There are effective plant based techniques that can help control pests, etc.
I agree with you, even in Bible is written that God created man and woman to take care of the planet, sad that we ended up destroying it😣
Wrong!
This channel has brilliant in-depth documentaries 👏
very informative, and awareness giving docu, thanks DW
Love her voice..very soothing to my ears..she is an asset for DW
That’s bit weird it’s a doco
Who is she? I know that voice!
Who is she? I know that voice!
@@PhoebeJaneway I personally wanted to write an application note to this lady and reached out to DW team.. but I never heard from them. They should atleast show the names of all the crew at the end of documentary. I wish I could see that lovely woman... whenever I feel stressed..I just watch her documentaries and I feel so much relaxed. Her voice has magic of healing stress 🙏
@@hariprasad9685 I still have the Feeling that she is a British actress.
There is also some Annie Lennox in that voice.
These documentaries are quite valuable about building future course of human society. Please make these documentaries available in other languages for developing countries like India. Thanks.
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Really great documentary, I was not aware of this until now.
Here in Bulgaria it is very, very Bad. Every single Bee Keeper has lost 80-90% of their Swarms. I have never seen so many Bee Hives being Burnt and or Destroyed. The annual Yields of many types of Fruit and Crops has diminished drastically over the Last 10 years. It's time to stop this senseless Slaughter of one of the Most important resources on this Earth, in the face and Love of MONEY !
It is not for money for all but money for very small few. If Monsanto was out of picture and the other chemical companies, more prolific nature would provide more money to all farmers. So it is all the small farmers who are getting shut down by big farmers and big chemical companies who are the bullies.
@@jamesmedina2062 I was utterly shocked when I learned that Bayer has bought Monsanto... That it's terrifying and they working to bring all of Monsanto practices into EU. Who knows, probably they already succeeded on many fronts.
Just sad how distructive they are.
@@gyorgyjakabjulia I will be honest with you that until human beings get real and start punishing corruption that destroys human and animals' habitat for life, we and all creatures will obviously go extinct so do we want to live or die? That is the choice it is down to. The old method of wars is now this modern war against total environmental destruction and toxicity, rendering land uninhabitable for centuries. Why did we not punish those performing nuclear tests? This Monsanto business is not the first time someone wants to destroy all life on Earth, but the transgressors paid attention than the rest of us did nothing. Again, I think new approaches and communication and coordination are necessary at a scale never seen before with unanimity and redundancy and of course rightful purpose.
Thanks Germanic tireless follow up on Bayer and Monsanto.
Glad you produce this documentaries.
In Santa Catarina's state in Brazil, have been happening the same.
Tiago Zanesco Replied to your other comment.
Do you notice fewer insects on the car windshield, compared to say 30 years ago?
I think they are doing all around the world.
@@mattiasdahlstrom2024 That's because of the destruction of forests and natural ecosystems, from where you can find a lot of bugs, of different types and sizes.
someone put this on tv so everyone can see it and play it once a month
Amazing. Thank you for sharing. ❤️ Watching from Canada❤️
I just boycotted Bayer products
Will give you much less headache and then you don't need to buy Aspirin from Bayer.
It's the same con game that nicotine does via cigarettes. Relation to neonicotinoids is poetical.
@@Dowlphin There are Generic ASA and have been for decades. i am keeping an eye on all other medical products. Did u know that Bayer some time ago bought out Monsanto?
How can you when there in all of our foods, its discusting.
Can yu post all the products that r on the market so I also can boycott...... Thanks so much!
@@ksc9954 I eat some organic, especially the dirty dozen
Not just Bees, early in their lives both of my grandparents had background contact of glyphosate. (A daughter of a farmer, as a young man he worked in lumber mills) My grandmother died in her 30s, grandpa in his 50s both died of cancer, non hodgkins lymphoma. Glyphosate which has only recently been recognized to increase your chances of getting those illnesses.
I have done a great deal of research concerning the toxic mechanisms of Glyphosate Based Herbicides and follow closely the work of MIT scientist Stephanie Seneff who has informed me to a large extent. I am curious, you say your grandfather was exposed to glyphosate working in lumber mills, but really I don't see the connection there with Glyphosate exposure, is there something I am missing? Glyphosate is a huge danger, more prevalent in its use than neo-nicotines, and devastatingly toxic to the human organism. There is an immense failure going on concerning how pesticides are assessed for "Safety". Outdated approaches of "Toxicology" that allow for poisons to disrupt vital biochemical functions and poison the cells of mammals. The cells are the basic engines of life, disrupting their function will degrade the well being and vitality of the whole organism. Chronic exposure may also lead to severe disease, such as cells mis-replicating and becoming cancerous. Many pesticides including Glyphosate disrupt the energy producing biochemistry in the cells, the Mitochondria and the ATP cycle, impairing the organisms energy, vitality, and endurance. According to current assessment methods that is acceptable. Many agricultural pesticides also deplete cellular Glutathione, a key peptide the body makes for vital cell protective, cell regenerative and immune functions. Again acceptable to toxicology. There is also the important issue of Endocrine Disruption from Roundup and many other pesticides; essentially impairing the normal production and function of hormones in the body. This is also acceptable. As I said a flawed and highly imprudent approach to the safety assessment of pesticides, issues not discussed here or in DW's report on now Bayer's Roundup.
have you seen the video genetic roulette? This says g m o s are the cause of many diseases.
Insecticides are NEVER necessary. People should stop buying cigarettes. But the WHO does nothing to help the 8 million people that die each year from smoking cigarettes, WHICH, is a whole lot more people that they say is dying from covid.
Genocide..all life forms.
I have an uncle who has non Hodgkins lymphoma and he's been in hospice for many years with only 1/4th of a single lung...
He worked on tobacco farms in his youth...( every hr while cutting tobacco you can pick a ball of resin off your hands and fore arms that is bigger than a grapefruit!
The tobacco plant oozes this resin out of every pore...its the number 1 ingredient in round up
@@RootsandTendrils I read/heard that glyphosate is flowing in the air everywhere. It must be latching onto trees, too.
Last year when I was shopping at Costco (in Canada) another woman and I were looking at the same product on the shelf. I was looking if it was organic or non-GMO - I cannot remember how the conversation started but I had mentioned that I try to eat organic where possible and if that is not possible then non-GMO. She looked at me with three heads. I mentioned that with a compromised immune system and fibromyalgia it has made a huge difference to my health and that I would welcome farmers to stop using glyphosates and neonicotinoids - I got a backhanded remark that farmers could not survive without them and that city folk just don't understand. It's true that the pressure of farming there is an expectation to produce as much as possible but at what cost? What will we do 20 - 30 years from now. How do farmers expect their crops to be pollinated in the years to come when all the bees are dying off. It's like cutting your nose off to spite your face.
These things are important to learn about thank you.
Letting the manufacturer test their own products produces a bias study. Bayer's priority is only money. Something needs to be done about this system or new chemicals will continue to sneak past regulatory authorities and may even threaten the entire ecosystem.
@Spike
I know I've been saying this for years. To me it seems like regulatory agencies create a system for when companies want to use a new product or formulation of something where the company will go to the agencies to request testing for these things, give the agency all the money necessary for the costs of the research, & then that agency will assign the research to a randomized selection of institutions/researchers in the field throughout the country/entity [or from within the region(s) that have the environmental conditions matching those the product is meant for.] The design of the study should be made by the agency & the institution that is assigned the research, after that happens if they feel they must do so then afterwords the agency can let the company review the design that is created with a process set up for how to resolve disputes between the company & what the agency + institution want done with the agency acting as intermediary between them so there is no contact or knowledge by the company of who is doing the research.
Obviously there would be a long list of various aspects beyond this that would be necessary, but even if there wasn't a character limit for comments there really isn't a need to go into all that stuff here. This general outline is fine for laying out the framework here, I just want to mention this for you, or more likely other people who happen to read this, to know that I am fully aware of those things being necessary & I could go into if anyone thinks this sort of thing is not really possible to do or even that it would be too unfair to the companies [while I'm sure by not being an expert in this sort of area there are things I have not considered or thought of.] But, the current system where the companies are responsible for doing the research themselves, have the ability to just not publish results, exert influence over institutions doing research with the threat of not having them do research in the future & possibly even directly interact & influence the researchers doing the work that then has the agencies responsible for oversight of these companies be completely reliant upon a system of trust in that the companies send them all the data & the correct data to make their decisions on is absolutely ridiculous & unfit for purpose.
@@aaronhoy3410 Boing were allowed to do exactly the same thing in approving the Max airplane and look what happened there.
They cant win against nature. Remember life finds a way.
No accountability.
I had serious digestion problems for the past three years I even thought I had weat/grain alergy, until I switched from eating Aldi bread to eating organic weat mixed with food!
Australia is by far the biggest pesticide user in the world and all that toxin goes to the water system/ocean
anybody that watches the video genetic roulette is supposed to pass it on.
I’m suspicious it’s Roundup sprayed on wheat when harvested and left to dry. Wheat or carbs are responsible for lots of health issues and likely the obesity epidemic.
Thank you for reporting on this 💕♥️
October here in northern US, I'm feeding raw honey to the bee's in my backyard. They wait for me to get home from work.😀
I purposly mow around the dandy lions , daisies and other flowering plants.
"Safe if used responsibly"
So, theyre safe only when theyre not used at all, got it.
Farmers in India are also protesting against these companies for the past 7 months and yet govt is sold to Ambani, Adani, company jerks!!
"Please drink responsibly."
So don't drink at all, got it.
@@vif3182 slight difference champ. Do you want to drink some neonics?
Farmers must face occasional crop failures and not buy "magic " solutions from these evil companies...
Same as opium and cocaine too.
This is what makes DW unique 👏, willingness to report on power corps within their border, commendable work 👍👍
Thank you for this service. Although, about a year ago I saw a very interesting documentary about the misdirection of research by business interests, also made by DW. It was about bees, farmed salmon and drugs, if I remember correctly. Now I can't find it anymore. Have you taken it down?
Thank you for your service to our planet
This is like the new DDT. Fruit and vegtables growers and processers need to band together and force Bayer to drop this insecticide.
@Black Alldatime If they find even 1 plant in your crop that came from their seed they can take your farm. Even if that seed was spread to your land by a passing truck or neighboring farm. It's already happened, and the courts supported it.
Yes it is. Together with glyphosate.
Read "Toxic Legacy" by Stephanie Seneff, or look up Don Huber, dr Seneff or Zach Bush MD
One step better would be to BAN & FINE Bayer/Monsanto and other companies from EVER producing their products and MAKING them use their existing profits to repair all damages they have done........... NO accountability means no motivation... JUST like in America now 2021... FREE VACCINES for covid19 and ZERO liability for deaths/side effects using their vaccines... NO ACCOUNTABILITY yet make the trillions of dollars profit......... OUR WORLD &HUMANITY are in SERIOUS trouble............ and LITERALLY facing extinction because some profiteering corporate assholes care less about ethics then profits at ALL costs.......We will ALL pay for allowing these companies to continue
I have noticed for the last two years at least 5 dead bees a day in my own yard, I don’t understand how a bee could just become flightless and die. I’m in South Africa, I feel it’s very weird that I see countless dead bees everyday.
Let's all work together !
Can we ? Bring in Mother Nature !
Oh, yes. At the moment here it seems to have been forgotten. We have to get rid of the thousands of chemicals dumped on the land every day.
Yes! There must be ways of sustainable nontoxic way of agriculture, which provide food for bees and small insects, at the same time we humans have enough, not overly harvesting, crops and produce. There must be ways!
We were also previously told by Monsanto, now under the Bauer umbrella, glyphosate was safe when used as directed.
Same with pharmaceuticals produced by Bayer …
DW documentaries are top drawer. 'It's the industrial megasystem that is cracking' - Joel Salatin
"If the bee 🐝 disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live." - Albert Einstein.
It makes you wonder how humans can be sooooooo utterly stupid and short-sighted.
@@oliviachipperfield6029 capitalism at it's finest
@@cyphi1 yes my friend
@@cyphi1 its horrible. Im a beekeeper myself
@@reubenwest8364 hopefully we can do something before it's too late. Bayer/Monsanto need to be stopped at all costs!!
Outstanding insight and content
This highlights the importance of independent scientific analysis, external to the pharmaceutical manufacturer, and where the individuals conducting such analysis do so without any conflicts of interest. That ensures the accuracy of the studies.
My god how depressing these people must to be brought to task.
Thanks DW Documentary for impartial reporting
Excellent journalism
Not the first time Bayer puts profits over ethics.
Boycott Bayer. Put them out of business.
How will you get the farmers to do this?
I don’t think anyone loves your documentaries more than I do !! You are doing a wonderful job !! I wished I had enough time to go school for this type of journalism besides my engineering study!! Long life to DW!!🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿😘
An outstanding report!
My sweet heart lived next door to a golf course the whole time she grew up now she shakes all the time like she has cerebral palsy but she doesn't the doctors won't say what she has can't find a diagnosis but I say it's from living next to that golf course and all the pesticides.
Thank you so much DW, I know so much more about the world because of your hard work!
Thanks. Another excellent DW documentary.
Thank you for your reporting
Thank you for watching!
Thanks for sharing
Hopefully go bust with all the law suits against Monsanto as their share price has gone down.Such a horrible company. Share holders must be veil greedy anti life
You are doing a fantastic job DW. That is true social responsibility. The best thing with your work is you use scientific findings to back your arguments. Great journalism. Thanks a million. Please go on.
"What isn't normal is breaking the law, concealing facts."
Yeah it is.
Well done guys! Bees and other pollinating insects are indeed in grave danger. That is the worst possible news for humanity as they are so vital to us. It is not just chemicals either. Telephone masts affect their navigation, according to recent studies. We must do everything we can to encourage insects, even if it's just a couple of 'insect hotels' in our gardens!
Shame on Bayer they have done so much damage to the environment and the fools who allowed them to are beyond understanding and respect.
Ha I heard they had contaminated medication and they got found out in EU and denied sales, so they sold it in the US...
Awesome, right? It carried some illness.. Like good thing they don't have to swear the hypocritic oath right?
Only do the best to "answer" to the investors, right?
Make sure u get your bonus that is more than average income...
Fact
They are doing this in order to bring new diseases because it’s more profitable
Bayer says it is all fine. This is called Lying.
No it's called fraud and that's a criminal offence.
Deny, divert (attention), delay. The same old corporate barn dance.
Bayer has been around for many moons and I remember in the 70s the commercials they advertised. The prices for their products is expensive and I buy generic or on sale.
Our current way of life is pretty much borrowing everything we use from future generations by using it all up and thus never be able to pay it back. Wonderful.
Well if I’m not mistaken Monsanto and other big companies have had lawsuits against him for at least a decade and nothing is happened but this was a wonderful documentary I want to thank you so much for keeping us informed
Before seeding this year lots of bees and many birds, a week into seeding and no bees around and the birds no longer sing in the mornings. Seed treatment and air seeders.
I just finished watching BEE on Netflix. They are crucial for our survival. What happened to Bayer's science for a better life? 😳
In toronto, I used to see honey bees all the time in my yard. Now I dont see any.
Both of my bee hives didn't over winter, such a loss....
Too many hazards for them to contend with!
I'm so sorry. Just not right. Does this poison contribute to the mite problem?
So sad to hear.
Did you leave them enough honey to overwinter?
@@zazethe6553 Yes, there was plenty left in the give after I did an autopsy.... I am pretty sure that it was mites... I have three new healthy colonies right now one of the colonies is a wild swarm....
Are you stacking hay bales to ward off the winter cold?
Madness,greed,criminal
DW lots of respect for ur courage,but what is d outcome now
Whoever invented the concept of limited liability, must have been a sociopath.