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Bill Truesdell <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:51:11 -0500
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Letters to the editor of you local newspaper in the vein of "we are about
to lose even our beekeepers bees" could be very effective. Couple the
pesticide problem with mites, which have received very good PR on the
plight of beekeepers and where have all the bees gone. Keep it moderate in
that we are not looking to ban all pesticides but keep our bees protected
from misuse of the pesticide.

Have the State Beekeeping organization issue a press release with their
concerns.

If you have suffered losses to pesticide in the past, call you local paper
or TV station and give them a reason to interview you.

In each case, the picture presented should be David vrs Goliath. Public
opinion will get behind the underdog, if they are not strident and not out
to ban pesticides but use them wisely. You do not want to offend the
gardener with their Raid.

Might not some on this list make up a straw man press release and after the
moderators sift through them for the best they could be posted on the list?

And a sample letter to the editor?

They should be short and attention getting.

Then it is only a matter of cutting, pasting, and mailing and no one will
have a good excuse for not getting involved.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, ME

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