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Hello All,
The other night I took my wife to the movies to see the movie "Australia"
now in theaters. Go see the movie as i think you will enjoy as much as we
did!
We had to wait for awhile for the movie to start so we went next door to
Barnes & Nobles book store. The store had both of the new CCD books in
stock. I bought both and plan to put in the Midwestern Beekeepers library
when done reading myself.
"A Spring Without Bees" by Michael Schacker I suspect might be as Jim &
Peter suggested a very bias book mainly from an environmental stand point
but as you can not tell a book by its cover I decided to get and read but
have only thumbed through so far.
The other book "fruitless Fall" I started reading at the book store and am
on chapter 8 of eleven. I can say right now the book is a must read for
those interested in the current bee crises.
"Fruitless Fall"
"The collapse of the Honey bee and the coming agriculture crisis"
by Rowan Jacobsen
Rowan does a terrific job of explaining the bee hive and CCD from a
commercial beekeepers perspective. Rowan walks the reader from before CCD,
through CCD, through problems around the world and up to todays 2008
findings.
Very interesting findings about antibiotics ( other than chloramphenicol)
being found in Chinese honey.
from page 116 of the book:
"As I write this I have on on my desk a lab report from ADPEN Lab ,a leading
food safety lab, saying found in a random honey packer sample of Chinese
honey 48 PPB ciprofloxacin in it. The antibiotic was also found in catfish,
shrimp and other farmed seafood from China"
The U.S. has zero tollerance for cipro as cipro remains one of our last best
remaining antibiotics and resistance could occur if in our food supply.
I am on a first name basis with the beeks he interviewed and know Rowan
must have taken
notes of exactly what each said as Rowan even included the cuss words from
Rhodes & Bell (Florida).
The book is done similar to the book "Follwing the Bloom". A must read in my
opinion . Not so sure about "A spring without bees' as looks like the author
simply went on the net and pulled up various research and gave his own
interpitation of said research but will comment after I have read the book.
On the back is praise from a lady highly respected in beekeeping circles
and
a member of the CCD working group.
quote May B.:
" The apiculture industry now has its own Upton Sinclair. Fruitless Fall is
an eye opening , attitude changing , and exceptionally engaging examination
of America's most overlooked multibillion dollar industry"
-May Berenbaum, professor of entomology, University of Illinois, and chair
of the National research council committee on the status of Pollinators in
North America.
Sincerely,
Bob Harrison
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