Illinois illegally seizes bees resistant to
Monsanto’s Roundup; Kills remaining Queens
Is
Illinois becoming a police state, where citizens do not have rights?” Ingram asked
in desperation. “Knowing that Monsanto and the Dept. of Ag are in bed together,
one has to wonder if Monsanto was behind the theft to ruin my research that may
prove Round-Up was, and is, killing honeybees. Beekeepers across the state are
being threatened that the same thing may be done to their hives and livelihood.
I was not treated properly, I don’t want to see this happen to anyone else in
this state, and I want this type of illegal action to end.”
What
is most disturbing to the Ingrams is that the State Department of Agriculture
came in and inspected their hives when they were not home
and without due process, took their bees and hives. At the time of the theft the
Ingram’s had not yet had their day in court to prove that their hives did not
have foulbrood. Ingram knew that the inspectors could not tell what they were
seeing and had warned the Department that if any of them came back it would be
considered a criminal trespass. Yet they came back when he was not home, stole
his hives and ruined his 15 years of research.“What was the value of that 3-year-old queen?” Ingram asked. “It could have been that she would have a resistant trait that we could expand into the whole bee culture to help them survive this Round-Up thing. How can you place a dollar value on that potential?” - from article
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