So my paper was originally going to be on Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD, which is the sudden and widespread disappearance of honey bees and most of their colonies.Well, it still is, but I'm not really expanding on the same question as before.
My research question was something like 'In our efforts to control the disappearance of thousands of bees for our food supply, are we poisoning our food?'I chose this because a friend of mine is a beekeeper and had just liked something on Facebook about Organic Farming and food politics. I also had been wanting to research Monsanto's website to see what they say they represent and to understand them better in general, and I came upon an entire section on their efforts to lessen the declining number of bees and their take on CCD. As you can probably imagine it was some creepy, artificial, drug-induced version of bee keeping, and after reading rebutting science articles on this topic, I learned that the drugged bees pollinate to make drugged plants.
I thought I had enough to go off of (I didn't) when I found an interesting science article hinting that genetically engineered plants and bugs could be a cause of the sudden disappearance of honey bees. I then watched a documentary expanding on that and the beauty of natural bee keeping away from Genetically Engineered seed.
I think I found an interesting connection between beekeeping and the ideas we were first introduced to at the start of this section, and I think it'll make a great topic for a paper. But my question turned out to be less of a question and more of a thesis: Genetic Engineering in nature takes it's toll on both the plant and the animal, and finds its last victims on the kitchen table.
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