James wrote : <This is the kind of thing that is presented or proposed to me almost every
> other month in NYC by yet another group of earnest, heavily bearded,
> painfully young men and earnest, very intense, fast-talking young women with
> slightly less body hair.  >

>Shame on you James! 

>You are super intelligent and make huge efforts to de-engineer ' scientific' reports to show they are not scientific.  When presented with an intensely advocated alternative approach to beekeeping you resort only to racism - assuming excessive bodily hair is a characteristic of some alien race embedded in the US. 

James' amusing description did not suggest racism to me at all. Rather, it evoked an image of the back-to-nature, off-the-grid, modern hippie, "I just wanna save the bees" mentality common among many post-CCD beekeepers.
Not that there's anything wrong with that ... :)
Eugene Makovec


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