This message was originally submitted by [log in to unmask] to the BEE-L list at CNSIBM.ALBANY.EDU. It was edited to remove excessive quoting of previously posted material. ------------------ Original message (ID=2DEE46) (66 lines) -------------------- From: "Darkpast" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Alternative methods against bee diseases. Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:24:10 -0800 Ok, here's my 2 cents worth, you get what you pay for. How can you expect a honey producer to risk not using chemicals inorder to produce a "chemical free" product, then turn around and only want to pay pennies for his product? It's time to face reality gents, because of the environment that our bees are forced to live in, they simply can not survive (let alone produce a surplus crop) with out chemical treatment. Yes, I know that everyone has that one hive that lives without chemicals, but take away the chemicals and all your going to have IS THAT ONE HIVE. So the consumer needs to understand the predicament that we all are in, the days of pure/healthy natural honey are in the past. Until that "promised strain" comes about, we have to live with what we've got and not what we'd like. Jeff