In Europe and also in China, bee populations are decreasing. This impacts everyone in the market. It affects how food gets to the table and how much it costs to put it there. Fresh produce will ultimately end up being fresh produce from across the ocean or fresh produce made in a lab. It wasn't until October 2006, when Hackenburg made the disappearance of his bees public, that anyone noticed that the bees were dispersing, but scientists have still not been able to prove the exact cause of CCD. In America nothing has yet been done to help bees. Other countries, such as Europe, have at least tried to maintain the current honey bee population by changing a law that prohibited certain types of pesticides that many are harmful to honey bees. The most important thing that could be done to protect honey bees is to stop using pesticides that are harmful to important creatures like honey bees. Just like Europe has done, ban chemicals that are harmful to bees until bee numbers start to increase. Another logical way to help the bee population is to give a tax credit to people who decide to become beekeepers since bees are very important to the US economy.