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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

you mean bees need more than sugarwater to live? huh. what about high fructose corn syrup thren?

[–] Paragone@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Farmers provide their animals, bees included, with what feed they can buy.

The fact that animal-feed is chemically-deficient isn't the fault of the farmers, it is the fault of shoddy standards in animal-feed being more profitable than quality/integrity's standards,

& nobody legislated proper-nutrition-requirements for things like animal-food, baby-food, etc.

For-profit operations ONLY increase their costs when that increases profits, XOR when they're coerced into producing correct product/service.

Basic narcissism-centered economics, that.

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