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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://blogs.mercola.com:443/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /><title>Where Have all the Insects Gone?</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/02/23/where-have-all-the-insects-gone.aspx</link><description>Bumblebees, butterflies and other insects are vanishing right before our very eyes. Bumblebees play a key role in pollinating crops such as tomatoes, squash and berries, but are in drastic decline across Europe and North America due to hotter and more</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>re: Where Have all the Insects Gone?</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/02/23/where-have-all-the-insects-gone.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#982822</link><pubDate>2/23/2020 2:07:02 AM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:982822</guid><dc:creator>Almond</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Bees and butterflies are at risk. &amp;nbsp;Flocks of birds are dying suddenly and dropping out of the sky. &amp;nbsp;Entire schools of fish wash up on shore. &amp;nbsp;Crop land and water is contaminated with several kinds of agricultural chemical toxins at once. &amp;nbsp;Crops are GMO and all that entails. &amp;nbsp;Some CAFOs are so toxic that workers must wear gas masks. &amp;nbsp;Animals designated for human consumption are being fed the worst kinds of foods by big ag. &amp;nbsp;Factories are dumping toxic wastes into public waterways. &amp;nbsp;There were repeated Minamato mercury poisonings in Japan. &amp;nbsp;The radiation from Fukishima is widely known, but there have been many more cases, globally, that the public has not been made aware of. &amp;nbsp;Elsewhere, radioactive wastes from power plants are leaking into soil. &amp;nbsp;Bikini Island was devastated.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Draining the swamp is nothing new, nor is it only political. There are those who would profit from the misery of others. &amp;nbsp;In all cases, these are examples of irresponsible stewardship of the land and what is on it.&lt;/p&gt;
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