The author writes

> The conventional view does not match the recent advances in research, and enables an avoidable increase in honeybee stress, (i.e. refrigeration and use of hives not significantly different in performance from thin metal)

Refrigeration? Keeping bees at +45F when it's -20F outside is the opposite of refrigeration. 

> Imposing avoidable stresses on vertebrates by provoking behavioural survival responses for no benefit to the individual or groups of animals may be regarded as cruelty ... forced clustering, i.e. deliberately provoking a stressful survival behaviour, needs revision as avoidable forced stress upon animals may be regarded as cruel.

Deliberately provoking stress? Excuse me, but exactly how is stress measured in bees? In my view, their entire lives may be regarded as stressful but they apparently take it on without any value judgement such as "this work is stressful, I need to a more cushy job." 

PLB

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