Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture
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Re: Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture
#2No of course not. Paywalled article so just guessing.
Re: Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture
#3As always with these kinds of headlines the answer is no.
Humans live in a symbiotic relationship with bees, we can not exist without each other.
Re: Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture
#4I would be focusing on other types of farming long before I worried much about beekeeping. It's a wild stretch to consider it harmful for bees, and if the planet is to survive we should probably do all we can to keep them around.
You could argue that you are benefiting from them still I suppose, but we all benefit from bees pollinating even if they are wild bees. We are still part of the ecosystem, we can't remove ourselves entirely (even though we seem determined not to make it through The Great Filter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter)
Re: Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture
#5As always with these kinds of headlines the answer is no. Humans live in a symbiotic relationship with bees, we can not exist without each other.
That seems untrue. If nothing else due to the fact that bees existed for 10s of millions of years before humans did.
Re: Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture
#6As always with these kinds of headlines the answer is no. Humans live in a symbiotic relationship with bees, we can not exist without each other.
What do you mean? We can live without bees from bee-keeping just fine. That's like saying cows and us can't live without each other.
Re: Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture
#7As always with these kinds of headlines the answer is no. Humans live in a symbiotic relationship with bees, we can not exist without each other.
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Re: Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture
#8As always with these kinds of headlines the answer is no. Humans live in a symbiotic relationship with bees, we can not exist without each other.
What do you mean? We can live without bees from bee-keeping just fine. That's like saying cows and us can't live without each other.
Uhm are you gonna run around fields chasing wild cows for milk and burgers?
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#9In a way, beekeeping is stealing nectar from wild bees.
I pretty much never see wild bees in my garden anymore - they're all honey bees, and usually some human is keeping/farming them - effectively stealing nectar from my garden and that of thousands of my neighbours that we had left out for wild animals.
Re: Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture
#10As always with these kinds of headlines the answer is no. Humans live in a symbiotic relationship with bees, we can not exist without each other.
Our current civilization certainly seems to score very high on neuroticism.
50 years from now, people will label the Zeistgeist as a resurgence of old Victorianism, with different (in direction, not in kind) racial and sexual taboos and an extra dollop of hairshirt environmentalism.