Why isn’t honey $100 a quart?
About 20 years ago, some honeybees died from “colony collapse disorder.”
The media went into a buzz.
But beekeepers rebuilt lost colonies and the disorder soon diminished.
Now, there are 31% MORE bees in America.
Since the media won’t report on that, I will: pic.twitter.com/JTYcvGXPIb
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) September 23, 2024
I live right next to a Vineyard that employs a beekeeper. Interesting guy….and, IMO, fearless. He’s a funny old guy and I had no idea what his politics were until I asked about the reported problems with the bee population diminishing. Here’s a direct quote:
“Those peckerhead nimrods don’t know the first think about raising bees. I ought to have one of them stick their hand in this nest.”
He gets a Christmas card from me every year…along with some home made bread for the honey he collects.”
Seems the polar bears are doing alright too!
Living in the country I see bees and bee-keepers all the time. They’re not suffering, from what I can tell.
It seems only the “hippies with garden plots” variety of bee keepers are having problems.
Various scares come and go, the gullible takes them far too seriously.
We have 96 months said Prince Charles, if we believe him, and why would we not. There’s money in a grift. (2009)
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/just-96-months-to-save-world-says-prince-charles-1738049.html
So that was in July 2009…so we must all be dead or something by now.
And to think that thing is King. Please die already.
Many people would be shocked to learn that honey bees aren’t indigenous to North America. They were imported from Europe 400 years ago. There is talk that honey bees are displacing local bee populations but that is yet another crisis in the making. And how about those earth worms?
So honey bees are colonists? Did they sign any hive treaties with indigenous bees? These ancient wrongs must be corrected.
Another sinister plot from the powers that bee…
Hence there is a need for the Babylon Bee
To bee or not to bee…
I am sure to collect my share of hate comments for this … but I sincerely hope that President Trump doesn’t go too far down the RFK Jr. “healthy food” rabbit hole. Sorry … but “Big Ag, and Big Food” aren’t conspiring to poison every living customer. That’s utter nonsense.
Do the Clark Griswold’s of the “Food Additive” Industrial Complex develop newer and tastier foods? Yeah, duhhhh!! Just like Chateau Rothschilds develop tastier wines. Is eating too many snack foods to the exclusion of whole, healthy, foods BAD for your health? Of course. And drinking too much wine? Of course. But it’s no reason to BAN snack foods. And it’s no reason to fear all chemicals … or ohhhhhhhhhhh mommaaaaaaaaa … “forever chemicals”.
I expect Trump will inflict him upon the CIA and FBI
Now … THAT … will be FUN to watch
Good news. Stossel is easily a top 5 journalist of the last 40 years. Always informative AND entertaining. Especially since he got redpilled maybe 30 years ago.
I will say this, I hardly see any lightning bugs, dragonflies, or bats round my parts (Southern New Jersey) anymore. Not sure what or who’s to blame, but I am concerned. Plenty of mosquitoes though!
We call them fireflies in Ontario. Used to be native to only northern Ontario, now encroaching GTA suburbs. I’m near Lake Ontario, plenty of dragonflies. Knew the bee thing was garbage when they started reporting it and blaming it on – climate change – of course. Now do a piece on how much the tree canopy has grown in North America in the last 20 years.
Banner year for fireflies (in my yard) in the Ottawa Valley.
Yah, I had bees. From the time I started, it was crisis after crisis. Some older, some newer. I got started just after varroa had just ramped up.
There’s the age-old bee problems – foulbrood being the worst, then came in the tracheal mites, varroa mites, africanized bees, small hive beetles, then the one that got it’s social media legs – colony collapse disorder.
For all the millions spent on research, I don’t think they ever figured out what was going on – could be weather, parasites, bacterias, virus, pesticides, even electromagnetic currents from nearby powerlines and 5G was thrown into it.
At the end of the day there’s been one positive – a lot of people have taken up beekeeping (and just as many quit is my guess, after spending thousands) so there’s a lot more bees out there.
They’re still basically farm animals, and only really thrive here if we take care of them.
Humans occupy 6% of the land mass in the world. you can start from there knowing bees or any animal do not see our boundaries. the other 94% of the land tends to dampen the rest of the effects
Yup. Bees start dying when the beekeeper spends too much time on his honey.
And tuna, they are disappearing, how come tuna isn’t $20 a can?
And bananas, they had some strange new disease that was wiping them out, how come still $0.79/lb at Superstore, mind you that’s up $0.02 since Covid.
Were honey-bees to suddenly disappear, there would be little effect on most crops that rely on pollinators. The native mason bees and other wild bees are far more effective than honeybees at pollinating. It’s just that they don’t produce a valuable side-product as a result of their activities.
Living in a dry city with comparatively few flowers we would see native bees all the time. I like the big ones with the big orange stripe. Big slow and very loud.
Then several my neighbors put up boxes of bees.
Imported from NZ (they don’t sting dontcha know). We will starve without bees dontcha know.
And poof no native bees.
Pandas….if anything should (and deserves to be extinct)….it’s Pandas. They are the human equivalent of that kid you knew from school who started every visit to the E/R with the phrase….”Watch This!!!”
Bought 24 kg (4x 3kg + 5kg + 7kg pots) from my favorite apiary in BC.
Buying in bulk is always cheaper and this was about $15/kg or about $7.50/ quart.
Better than refined sugar, for all your family cooking and baking needs. 🙂
Cheers
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Now that’s a buzzkill.
There was a warning out recently about the labeling on honey. Apparently some honey pruducts were being cut with other sweeteners. No proof was provided, however.
I see a lot of flies – not Juthtin Trudeau-type flies – digging around flowers.
I don’t see many honey bees.
I see a lot of bumble bees – they remind me of fat people.
Bee’s got it good.. They only sell hornet and wasp killer at the store 🙂