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I Pledge to Help the Honey Bees!
Haagen-Dazs & EP have teamed up to help the honey bees- because they need it! Their population is plummeting, endangering the foods they pollinate (over 1/3 of our food supply!) Make a stand & sign this pledge to raise awareness of the honey bee crisis!
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Imagine a world without honey bees.
Now image that world without tasty pears, luscious raspberries and juicy strawberries. Imagine that world with no flowers, no fruit, no nuts.
Haagen-Dazs and Experience Project have teamed up to engage new people in
this very worthy cause. Who would have thought these little guys would
play such an important role in our lives....
Honey bees are responsible for pollinating one-third of all the foods we eat, so when honey bees are in danger, we’re all in danger.
Still not convinced, well did you know:
+ One out of every the three bites of food an average American eats is directly attributed to honey bee pollination.
+ Honey bees are responsible for the pollination of more than 100 crops, including fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, and provide 80 percent of the country’s pollination services.
+ The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in U.S. agricultural crops each year.
+ Bees fly approximately 10 to 15 miles per hour and visit about 50—100 flowers in each pollination trip.
+ To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two million flowers and fly 55,000 miles.
+ When a honey bee returns to the hive after finding a good pollen source, it gives out samples of the flower’s nectar to its hive mates and performs a dance that details the distance, direction, quality and quantity of the food supply. The richer the food source, the longer and more vigorous the dance.
So do your part and pitch in today to help the honey bee and fight Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).
Beyond the simple tasks of planting flowers in your own personal gardens,
Haagen-Dazs is taking their commitment further by funding research at such
universities as UC Irvine around CCD and even building out specific
gardens to cultivate honey bees and replenish the ranks so that our
nature's bounty can continue to flourish.
For more Information, check out http://experienceproject.com/helpthehoneybees
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