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So brutally rapid market driven natural selection of the honey bee population is a good thing, hmm. Darwinian both financially and biologically, and fits with p
by g8oz 11y ago
So brutally rapid market driven natural selection of the honey bee population is a good thing, hmm. Darwinian both financially and biologically, and fits with prevailing American economic philosophy.
I venture that we're performing an uncontrolled experiment with known benefits and risks we are just beginning to understand. Not worth it. One can only hope the E.U invades in Operation American Freedom and imposes the Precautionary Principle on us.
- tptacek 11y agoHoney bees are not American. They're livestock brought into the country by settlers.
- hughw 11y agoAs I am not American. My forebears came here as settlers.
- earleybird 11y agoThis is a narrow view. As go the honey bees, so go the indigenous pollinators.
- tptacek 11y agoThat does not in fact appear to be the case.
- happyscrappy 11y agoThe EU should concentrate on keeping themselves viable, I am not sure they can afford to worry about Americans. Edit: I have a lot of sympathy for the EU, they are in a tough situation.