Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers provided bees with a nutritionally complete diet that boosted reproduction up to 15-fold. Unlike commercial substitutes that lack key nutrients, this supplement mimics natural pollen’s sterol profile, giving bees the equivalent of a balanced diet.
Simple. A good portion of our agriculture is based on capitalism. Prior to the industrial revolution (capitalism) there weren’t nation sized monoculture farms full of identical genetic freakshow plants.