Allen said: "The repeated injection of misinformed assumptions and wild generalizations -- whether by statement or query -- often by people with no direct knowledge skews conversation away from more productive areas and discourages many informed members who find uneducated and unresearched debate a tedious waste of time. "

Really? is that so.........heres another beekeeper who shares my same view of feedlot beekeeping,  or is this just another  "misinformed assumptions and wild generalizations" you seem to like to get so indignant over?  

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/03/no_way_to_treat_a_bee.html

"It would be unfair to say that most beekeepers object to large-scale agriculture or commercial pollination on any moral or philosophical grounds. 

But some beekeepers are beginning to question the sustainability of such practices. This new model of beekeeping requires gargantuan effort to keep bees alive, let alone healthy. 

Most beekeepers are now moving to blitzkrieg-style mite treatment and nutrition regimens, putting two to three times more nutrition and medicine into hives than we were 10 years ago just to achieve, at best, the same level of colony health and size of previous decades. 

In order to keep the bees jazzed enough to be industrial-strength pollination machines, for example, we feed each hive an average of 60 to 100 pounds of sugar annually, because when bees are involved in intensive pollination, they are burning carbohydrates so rapidly they cannot accumulate honey and require supplemental feed. ? 

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