why are bees dying?

Has anyone seen the commercial for helpthehoneybees.com? It's a campaign created by the ice cream maker, Haagen-Dazs to help the University of California to research an alarming decline in the bee population. I wonder if this is really happening or is it just some big hoax like Y2K?

Is it really possible for the beloved bee to become extinct in our lifetime? (Cue in the movie trailer voice) "Imagine a world without bees?" No bees = No honey. It would mean no honey glazed doughnuts, no honey baked ham, no honey mustard, no Honey Nut Cheerios. Not to mention, honey bees are responsible for pollinating one-third of all the food we eat. So perhaps there would be no apples or pears.

Yes it would be a sad, sad day if we ever had to part ways with the beloved bee and say goodbye to the golden, gooey natural sweetener it produces. But what would be worse is that according to Einstein we'd all be dead in 4 short years! This quote by the way has been spreading across the internet like wildfire with the intent of course, to get our attention. And it's been working. But you need not worry, I dug a little deeper and found out that Einstein never said such a thing.

So what would replace honey if the day were to ever arrive? No, Don't say the "H" word! I did hear that Monsanto was making a honey-flavored aspartame. Or we could genetically engineer squirrels into making honey. That would be interesting. I bet it would be slightly nutty too. Yum!

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