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Subject:	Re: More Than Honey
From:	Peter L Borst <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:21:14 -0400
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> I had also never seen the machinery the Miller's were using to shake bees and make splits.  Why do they assume most of the queens die in the process?

Back in the 1980s I worked for an outfit that sold packages and nucs on that scale. We did everything by hand. There is no need to go to the level of mechanization shown in that film. I found that part of the film appalling, disgusting, and embarrassing (as a beekeeper). Really, no justification to grind living beings through such a mechanized system, other than avarice and callosity.

Pete

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