> The solution is to break up monopolies, and prohibit mergers and acquisitions that create monopolies. 
> If nothing is done to regulate and limit the corporations ...

People love to rail against monopolies. But the reality is that, in any semblance of a free market, about the only monopolies that exist for any length of time are either run or sanctioned by government (e.g., the postal service, electric company, or Amtrak). And as often as not, piling regulation on an industry benefits its bigger players, as they can afford the added compliance costs that their upstart competitors cannot.

On that last point (and in an attempt to bring this back to the subject of bees), I proffer the example of the honey sales laws in many states, which require all extracting and bottling of honey to be done in a full commercial kitchen in order for that honey to be sold via retail establishments. These rules provide no public health benefit (no one is dying in states without them), but they do keep competition from small local beekeepers off the store shelves.

Eugene Makovec
Foley,  Missouri

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