September 13, 2007 at 3:47 pm
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Now this one warmed my cockles. The European Parliament announced last week that 433 out of 626 MEPs signed a declaration demanding an end to experiments on great apes and non-human primates in Europe.
OK, so there is nothing legally binding here but we have an indication of the way they are thinking. Our furry cousins have done enough to prove that they are pretty similar to us in so many ways and I know I do now want to be stuck in a cage and experimented upon by crazy people who believe they are in some way more intelligent than me.
I am a firm supporter of the ‘hundredth monkey effect‘. If we get enough people together thinking in a certain way, change will happen. OK, so I’ve yet to get a hundred people reprogrammed in the same way in order to prove it, but I’m a believer :>)
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September 9, 2007 at 4:26 pm
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Well, I’m glad to see some progress into the disappearing bees or Colony Collapse Disorder as it is named. They reckon a virus discovered in Israel got over to Australia and then got imported over to the USA. It wasn’t so bad in Australia because they don’t have bees already weakened by the varroa mite.
Someone has managed to put a figure on the threat caused by this lack of bees for pollinating. Since most of our crops rely on the little fellows to, well, crop, experts reckon the crop loss value is in the region of $14.6 billion. Forgive me for guffawing but, didn’t they work out that if we had no bees we would all be wiped out in seven years? Now, how does that compare with $14.6 billion? Let me think. Still, it keeps the accountants happy…
Oh, there’s a great pic of a honey bee with the National Geographic story. The story is also covered in New Scientist
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