At 10:08 AM 1/26/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At two bits per box top, Andy's arithmetic was incorrect, that would be
>40,000 boxes, not 20,000. More money for the post office.
>Now don't get me wrong, $10,000 is $10,000 - an amount not to be trifled
>with and a sum for which beekeepers should be thankful. Thank you
>General Mills!
Hi Bee Friends,
I believe the information about the money paid out by GM was contained in a
letter from GM's PR Department that was quoted and posted in this group. I
also believed that the deal was that GM would match the funds collected via
the box tops, but heck the day after GM put out the press release with the
original information on their Save The Box Top's campaign I did call the
800# and requested the press kit, twice, and I never heard back from them.
I got a little concerned that maybe we as beekeepers were being used so I
checked with the NHB in Denver and their side of story was not GOOD. This I
believe I reported early on to this group. Indecently the more I looked
into GM and their relationship with the honey industry the more doubts were
at least raised in my mind on the viscosity, (well I could'nt spell the
other one), of their efforts on the behalf of Honeybees or their keepers.
Their interest are getting cheep honey and using it to promote their products.
GM efforts on behalf of Honeybees or beekeepers is no different then
getting some gold medal winner to indorse their products except it costs
them very little money, and they are trading on our beekeeping problems and
not our successes.
In any case what we got is better then a stick in the eye and I hope
everyone has learned a lesson that if we have a problem we must turn inward
for the solution and be a little suspicious of those who do not have the
problem even if the are well meaning, or respected story tellers for the
desert southwest selling books.
ttul, the OLd Drone
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