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From: K&W Jarrett <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, May 20, 2007 10:42 am
Subject: Re: [BEE-L] CCD
To: [log in to unmask]

> > I'm still annoyed that the FDA has the time and budget to 
> investigate 
> > dog and cat deaths, but not to investigate unexplained bee colony
> > losses.
> 
>  Probably, because there are allot more dogs  & cats drying than 
> bees.

I am not certain that is true, and I suspect it has a lot more to do 
with the fact that they are already set up to do stuff like this, have 
more experts in the related feilds to call upon and there are more 
individual humans being touched by this directly that by CCD.  This 
also falls squarely in what they understand as their percue and 
jurisdiction to uise the term perhaps a little inappropriately.  CCD 
may not "feel" the same to them, and is certainly less familiar ground.

And let's face it, the average american likes dogs and cats better than 
stinging insects.  

Keith

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