Hi All
 
Just to pick up on the assertation that using an biologically
produced oil would avoid the danger of damaging humans, I have the
following beliefs apart from aggreeing with what Dr Rodriguez said
in his reply.
 
Most vegetable oils are present in plants in small amouunts. Our
bodies can metabolise these small amounts. If one takes forty
kilograms of sunflower/rape seeds and squeezes out a litre of oil to
eat/drink/pour on bees, it is unlikely that it wouuld have been
possible to eat 40 kg's of sunnnflower seeds, so natuurally we cannot
deal with an extract of that volume. So if you eat chips you get
cholesterol. If bees eat the oil, which they may, they will be able
to digest some of it and it may mess with their metabolisms. The FGMO
is inert however and will pass throuugh them maybe only affectinng
their absorbtionn of certain things. SO IMHO FGMO is OK and a
vegetable extract is not. (A bit like the whole Oleander is natuural
so the cyanide theirin is safe theory)
 
Keep well
 
Garth
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