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Re: Honey bee ethics
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 3 Feb 2019 15:02:25 -0800
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> >I feel that treatment free bee keepers allow their bees to suffer by not
> providing safe and simple husbandry measures to control mite populations.
> If they have no empathy for the animals they should not keep them.


My sentiment exactly!  We sell a thousand nucs each spring--thriving, with
young, beautiful queens.  We avoid selling them to anyone who says that
they plan to go treatment free--it would be like sending one of our
daughters off to a slow, gruesome, and needless death.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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