At 1/22/02 01:12 PM, you wrote:
>I do not agree with burning colonies in any but the worst cases,
>as would any rational person who understands how AFB is spread
>by beekeepers more often than by any other method.

>They decided up front to forego drugs.  They did no study, they
>have no facts, they simply made a choice.

You are commending the New Zealand approach on the one hand and ridiculing
it on the other. "They have no facts, they simply made a choice." In other
words, where they agree with you, they are right. Where they disagree with
you, they are wrong. Where is your study, where are your facts?