March 5, 2007 - Thoughts About the Honey Bee's Future
My last post received a comment that included a question about my thoughts and opinion about the current situation concerning the future of the honey bee.
Truthfully, I am not surprised about the evolving dilemma. Like everything else that man touches with his attempts to make things easier for greater profits, there always seems to develop a major setback. From what I am reading in the AJC article, the immune systems of the honey bees are developing lack of resistance to any new pests or other viral type bacteria that comes along and the entire colony dies. In the event of multiple colonies, clearly it is contagious or spreads quickly as all of the colonies are usually impacted in one geographic location.
The question we need to ask is: what the heck have these bees been being treated with all these years in what we thought was supposed to be helpful?
First, we know that the honey bee was never native to North America. But neither were cows, chickens and a variety of other animals that have been brought to this continent over the centuries. Look at how American livestock is raised for mass food consumption.......see anything that connects the dots? How about "chemicals"? Next, let us not forget the constant bombarding of pesticides and fertilizers that have pounded plant life and entered the plant kingdom that also impact the insect and animal worlds as well. With the threat of the specific parasites that have been discovered and a treatment designed for the honey bee industry, I can only deduct that what is being witnessed is a result of these treatments over the years as well as exposure to chemical compounds that have been applied to agricultural crops at best.
Am I concerned?
Absolutely.
Does this make me want to give up?
No.
We have to continue to try. We have to maintain hope and persevere. We have to return to natural ways of maintaining our livestock - even honey bees - as well as how we grow our food in order to return "order" to the natural world around us.
God designed this natural world in a perfect order. All things in nature have existed in perfect balance for thousands and thousands of years until whose hands came along and got all in the mix of matters?
Man.
I will continue to move forward and start with one colony of bees. I've already slated its name: Genesis.
As the time approaches, I will keep posting about the launching of the Genesis colony with great and prayerful hopes.
hkj
Comments
March 5, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by morningsunshine
let me know your pregress; I want bees!!!!
