>> ...And their products have created vast monocultures of corn and
>> soybeans, making it more difficult for bees to thrive and produce
>> a crop of honey.

> This is one of the biggest falsehoods out there about Monsanto.

> Monsanto did not create monocultures.

The claim is not that Monsanto does, but that that Monsanto's products do.

Whatever the driving force, that statement itself appears to be 
obviously true.  Planting huge areas of herbicide resistant seeds and 
and spraying the crops with Roundup does not leave much for bees. 
Neither does desiccating crops at the end of the season.

> Economics and the demand for more and more food by our burgeoning
> population created the agricultural environment we see today.

That is also true.

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