> > The bee-industrial complex is a quagmire linked to antiquity and the
modern world.

Out of curiosity, what about the above sentence do you find to be in error?
I keep my bees in equipment invented in the 1850's, and use beekeeping
methods developed thousands of years ago.

But I also move those hives on modern-day trucks on modern-day freeways to
the vast monocultures of artificially-irrigated monocultures
of clonal cultivars of a tree introduced to this continent (almonds) to be
paid for providing pollination services, where they will be exposed
to recently-invented herbicides and perhaps insecticides.

And one of my main focuses in beekeeping is dealing with a
recently-introduced parasite from another species of honey bees, which
would not even be an issue if we beekeepers were not supported by the
almond industry.

It seems to me that the author's sentence describes the situation pretty
well.


Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
530 277 4450
ScientificBeekeeping.com

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