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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 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.


Honey bees are not American. They're livestock brought into the country by settlers.


This is a narrow view. As go the honey bees, so go the indigenous pollinators.


That does not in fact appear to be the case.


As I am not American. My forebears came here as settlers.


The 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.




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