>Oh, good grief!!  Just what we need -- more ideas for law-suits!  We have
>enough members of the legal "profession" coming up with them already!  I
>wish all you contentious litigious characters severe cases of Varroa and
>AFB in all your colonies.
 
>Walter Weller
>(retired attorney)
 
Yes, of course, we should all bend over and let the multi-national
corporations  stick it to us and dictate what we should consume and how we
live our lives ;-)  Although there is something to be said for old Billy's
idea to "Kill all the lawyers"  the alternative to the rule of law is "might
makes right" and there's pretty good  evidence that this latter is getting
to be more and more the norm in environmental issues anyway-- when that's
the case the only resort available to non-corporate  entities, like
beekeepers, are guerilla tactics-- but some of us thrive on that.
 
As far as the issue of transgenic pollen goes: my understanding is that a
lot of the work in transgenics is being done to make plants _more_ tolerant
of pesticides (namely herbicides) so that the end result would be more
chemical pollutants in the environment not less (especially if the
resistance jumped into a weed genome via viral tranposans or the like).  On
the bright side, for those who fear the abuse of such technology,
preliminary field trials of most transgenic products to date have been
fairly disappointing compared to the manufacturers' claims.
 
 
Salvador Templar
(paid assasin-- lawyers done for free ;-)  Deus lo volt!)