Bill Truesdell writes:
Most organic standards are fairly loose and allow a lot of
leeway, except for bees. That standard is probably the
strictest, but there are ways to get around it, as I have
seen in Maine.


Reply:
Since I have pushed for zero tolerance for all treatments
for honeybees for years since the beginning and have stated
many times that if we can do it, and do it commercially,
then there is no excuse for others not being able to do it,
perhaps you would care to enlighten us as to why others
would want to get around tight standards where human health
is concerned, since you have come right out and stated:
"There are way to get around it".

You talked big on the apples thread here for all the
so-called natural treatments being bad and worse then
conventional treatments, which IMPOV they certainly
are....but this would be true also in beekeeping for the
maintenance of the health of our colonies also, and future
contamination problems.......

So why are beekeepers in your area then working with "ways
of getting around this" to put dopes/treatments into their
colonies? Especially since the way you write it, it would
seem like knowingly doing so........even though in practice
it would be wrong?

Just what is wrong with wanting a clean sustainable
beekeeping system for healthy bees and/or any other
livestock or agricultural product produced for that matter?

Regards,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://group.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/

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