'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession

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Bees are essential to the functioning of America’s titanic almond industry – and billions are dying in the process

Thanks to a record wet spring, his hundreds of hives, scattered across the central Arizona desert, produced a bounty of honey. Arp would have plenty to sell in stores, but more importantly, the bumper harvest would strengthen his bees for their biggest task of the coming year.

 

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For Celiacs who are also allergic to milk protein, you cannot cook or bake without almond milk. Oat milk is not gluten free.

So, Veganuary people, is this the new avocado controversy? And bees are much more important than sheep.

Pretty strange headline pointing the finger of blame at almond-milk, a vegan milk alternative to animal milk. When the article goes on to point the finger of blame at pesticides and monoculture farming. Almost like there's an agenda from even the 'left' media. Blatant.

I don't think almonds are to blame, but likely pesticides. Europe has banned a lot of the pesticides used in the US to help their bee populations.

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Where's the tit on an Almond.

I like almond milk and I will continue to buy it. If we stop eating or drinking everything the politically correct brigade want us to give up, humans will have to feed from air - which is often polluted and won’t be good for you anyway.

This is terrible, if the ‘clever’ humans kill off all the bees it will be the end of humans.

Looked on the back of a few cartons of 'almond milk' last time I was in the supermarket. The amount of almond in it was less that 10% and therefore over 90% was just WATER. Should just call it what it is.... Almond Squash. FYI was the same with most coconut 'milk'.

Lucy_johnsonx read this!!! The planet needs bees!!

...'One of the most widely applied pesticides is the herbicide glyphosate (aka Roundup), which is a staple of large-scale almond growers and has been shown to be lethal to bees as well as cause cancer in humans'.... Read the article people...very informative

This is old news

wermoewe Thanks

Which is why anyone with any nous drinks Oat Milk. We've known this for decades. Not new news. Just waiting for a 'Soy causes deforestation' revelation.

Ok boomer

I’ve recently changed to hemp milk .. hopefully this is an improvement. Does anyone know?

No mention of the billions of bees dying from mass production honey, making it impossible for this farmer to make a living from his honey in the first place?!

Strange, but the US department of agriculture figures suggest bee colony stability.

mtwolves22 👀

Almond milk? No such thing! It's Nut juice and it's ughhh

Oh no, all I can drink is almond milk (lactose intolerant.) What can I drink now.

Cormacwat Almonds are bad news

I drink almond milk and coconut milk because I've got a dairy intolerance or allergy. Not quite diagnosed but projectile vomiting with excruciating pain within minutes of consuming cows milk kind of tells me really. Sorry I digressed, I shall stop drinking almond milk save bees!

The Guardian is right, vegans are the worst.

Sorry but this story was so dull & long winded that I have up reading it!! 😩

And almond farming consumes a lot of water.

Life (or death) imitates art.

PeggyFagan45 One for GretaThunberg, eh iromg?

lidybird

How do you milk almonds

No bees, no flora, no fauna.. fckd up climate - or fckd up climate change denial?

Paid article by dairy industry?

dear animal industry: now do oat milk

'My bees keep dying in masses when I send them away, better keep sending them away'

Jenna82438775

So..., there is no difference between us eating meat and them having almond milk? I feel vindicated, cheers for this 👍

stacyallan91 this you?

so much for almond milk being vegan

Yeah, it's definitely almond milk and has nothing to do with honey

Whilst demand seems to increase with the popularity of vegan diet. Those that are vegan choose not to eat produce made by animals incl honey. 🥑+🥜🥛 are produced by the work of bees? It could be that both foods are popular in all diets and we need to look to sustainability law

Buy almonds from Meditarreanean countries rather than America. Smaller carbon footprint and less comercial.

Stopped taking almond milk years ago when I found out it's very low levels of nutritional value.

I reckon that I'd get quite sick if all I had to eat was almonds each day. Every creature needs a complex diverse environment to survive.

Interesting this given that greater demand for almond milk is probably down to more people going vegan. Wonder if this conflicts?

Is this unique to America’s Almond industry? Is Australia’s, for example, any better?

How sad To be a bee Only to be Rented out To be exploited by bee-killers And then cease to bee. Let it be? Let it not bee!

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