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Friday, August 16, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
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“I’m getting real uncomfortable with death on an epic scale.”
So says depressed beekeeper John Miller in More Than Honey, a documentary about the alarming fact that all around the world colonies of bees are collapsing and nobody really knows why. Throughout the film we see these numerous tiny apocalypses, thousands upon thousands of tiny bee carcasses spilling out of dead hives. Humanity is in a bit of a bind on this one, our rapacious appetite for honey has led to us to keeping bees on ever bigger and more industrial scales. We need to; it takes more than 10,000 worker bees to gather a single pound of honey - these bees have to fly the equivalent of twice around the world. As they gather nectar they pollinate the flowers, thus ensuring the health and reproduction of plants.
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