> ... once again, the sky did not fall. People in the beekeeping
> industry reacted ... and the food supply was saved. Too often it is
> presumed when reading about environmental issues in the
> doom-and-gloom media that politicians are needed to save the
> day. ... As is often the case, the
> uncoordinated market quietly resolved what had been posited
> as a major crisis.  

Good points, Peter. A gripe I have with the ABF is the lobbying they do for government funding. Government help seldom comes without attached strings. And these strings seldom come without unintended consequences. Just look what the past fifty years of federal farm bills have done to "family farms", the ones they were supposedly designed to save.

Eugene Makovec
Missouri USA

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