Dee Lusby wrote:

>But organic beekeeping is more then just producing
>so-called clean honey. To me IMPOV an organic program that
>has problems of disease and predators and parasites is no
>real organic program for organic beekeeping should be in
>harmony with Nature.
>
Harmony with nature is not a guarantee against disease.  After all - all
of those disease inducing organisms are part of nature.

>
>When all ducks line up and the problems with the bees
>necessatating the various doping ways stop, and the bees
>become healthy, strong, and continuing with basic field
>manipulative management, then you have arrived.
>

If all it took was "balance" then wild populations of all organisms
would not have much by way of disease.  Ask any qualified wildlife
health professional - it aint' so.  Of course to adopt this simplistic
position one must fail to see that the disease causing organisms are
part of nature will always seek to maximize their reproductive rates
('cause that is what living things do) . . . and you know where that leads.

Keith

--
The best servants of the people, like the best valets,
must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear.
It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom
the king can least afford to lose - Walter Lippmann

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