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Date: | Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:34:15 -0500 |
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It is always interesting to read these threads since they do fall into
"Aaron's Rant" (I like the term since it sounds Biblical). The hobby
beekeeper wants all commercial operations ended to save beekeeping as we
know it, even though it means an end to some of the things they take for
granted, plentiful seeds for their gardens (bees are trucked in for that
too) and cheap food.
Commercial operations are in difficulty, so why blame them when the
problem is Varroa (IMO) and virus (and nosema?). They did not create the
mite.Truth is, were there not a large commercial beekeeping industry,
you would have very little money for Varroa research and hobby
beekeeping would do just what it has done in my area, which is decrease
to one solitary beekeeper. The native pollinator crowd would then have
the wherewithal to outlaw honey bees as an invasive species, and don't
think they would not do just that. End of beekeeping as we know it.
So the commercial operations that some (and it is a small group)
condemn, should be looked on as the savior of the small beekeeper since
the commercial pollinators are the engine that drives the political and
money machine to save our bees and make saving the honeybee a national
priority.
Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine
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