The point of this confiscation can not
possibly be clearer: Monsanto wants no honeybees resistant to their Roundup
product to continue to exist.
The Illinois Ag Dept. illegally seized privately owned bees from
renowned naturalist, Terrence Ingram, without providing him with a search
warrant and before the court hearing on the matter, reports Prairie Advocate News.
Behind the obvious violations of his
Constitutional rights is Monsanto. Ingram was researching Roundup’s effects on
bees, which he’s raised for 58 years.
“They ruined 15 years of my research,” he told Prairie Advocate, by
stealing most of his stock.
A certified letter from the Ag Dept.’s Apiary
Inspection Supervisor, Steven D. Chard, stated:
“During a routine inspection of your honeybee colonies by … Inspectors Susan Kivikko and Eleanor Balson on October 23, 2011, the bacterial disease ‘American Foulbrood’ was detected in a number of colonies located behind your house…. Presence of the disease in some of your colonies was confirmed via test results from the USDA Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland that analyzed samples collected from your apiary….”
Ingram can prove his bees did not have
foulbrood, and planned to do so at a hearing set in April, but the state seized
his bees at the end of March. They have not returned them and no one at the Ag
Dept. seems to know where his bees are.
The bees could have been destroyed, or they
could have been turned over to Monsanto to ascertain why some of his bees are
resistant to Roundup. Without the bees as evidence, Ingram simply cannot defend
against the phony charges of foulbrood.
Worse, all his queens died after Kivikko and
Balson “inspected” his property, outside of his presence and without a warrant.
Of note, Illinois beekeepers are going
underground after Ingram’s experience and refuse to register their hives, in
case the state tries to steal their private property on phony claims.
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