Obama Defends bees

Following numerous pesticides used in agriculture

NEW YORK President Barack Obama created a special force to combat the plague of bees in hives in the United States, and further claims that the Americans are aware of the need to protect the industrious insect.

"Given the severity, extent and persistence of decline, it is essential to expand federal efforts to reverse the loss of bees," the president wrote in a memo released from the White House.

Following numerous pesticides used in agriculture, bee, which Albert Einstein emphasized the need to defend about 60 years ago, it runs the risk of extinction, as published by the website ansa.it.com.

"If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, mankind would not survive more than four years," warned the Nobel the most important scientist of the twentieth century and Prize in Physics.

It is an action taken on the basis of alarming data: last northern winter bee population in the United States decreased by 23 cienro, which had serious consequences for farmers and for the country's consumption.

Are at least 90 crops in America that depend on pollination by bees and a quarter of the food consumed by Americans.

Beekeeping activity has a profound economic impact: they contribute more than 24 billion dollars to the US economy.

A special force Pollinator Health, composed of 15 ministries-including the Department of State and Defense, was asked to study the impact of chemicals in agriculture.

However, that was rejected by environmental groups, which accuse Obama of not having gone to the bottom line with measures such as the ban on certain insecticides, based on the example of the European Union.