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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Green Living / Beekeeping in the City

Beekeeping in the City

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

urban beehiveThe mayor of London, England wants YOU to be a beekeeper. Appropriately named “The Capital Bee Campaign”, the ongoing media blitz is working to raise awareness in the UK of the worrisome problem of disappearing honeybees and Colony Collapse Disorder. 

75 new beekeepers are already in training at sites around the city and the goal is to have 2012 food growing spaces metro wide by the 2012 Olympic Games to be hosted in London.  Well over 2000 hives have been registered already, but a third of these were lost during the extremely cold winter of 2009-10 due to Colony Collapse Disorder.

While I applaud the well meaning campaign, it seems to be a bit off the mark, ok – A LOT off the mark, at least to me.

Colony Collapse Disorder really has nothing to do with ordinary citizens shirking their beekeeping responsibilities (if there is such a thing) or not being aware of the honeybee’s plight.

Pesticides and possibly the dangers of cell phone towers are the most likely culprits behind the devastating drop in the honeybee population in recent years, not a lack of beekeepers.  This is discussed in detail in the post EPA Knowingly Allowed Bee Killing Pesticide.

What’s more, The Capital Bee Campaign fails to encourage citizens training to become beekeepers to do so as organically as possible given that organic beehives do not seem to be plagued with Colony Collapse Disorder in the same way as conventionally maintained hives.

Below is the 30 second public service announcement put out by The Capital Bee Campaign.  I was dumbfounded by the action steps listed at the end.  Take a look:

Can you believe those four action steps at the end?

Grow Your Own Food!

Buy Bee Friendly Food!

Plant Bee Friendly Plants!

Here’s my favorite that really made me chuckle:

Garden responsibly!

How about banning the bee killing pesticide clothianidin like France, Italy, Slovenia, and Germany have already done? How about encouraging organic beekeeping and getting the facts about the probable reasons for Colony Collapse Disorder out to the public so that pressure can be brought to bear on the government regulatory agencies that are permitting the use of bee killing chemicals and practices?

Now there are some action steps that actually will help honeybees rather than skirting the issue in favor of cutesy public service announcements and a politically correct push for the greening of London in preparation for the 2012 Olympics.

Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

 

Source: Capital Bee

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Rebecca Conroy

    Jun 28, 2011 at 8:13 am

    It’s true this doesn’t go all the way but I am still delighted they are encouraging and allowing beekeeping. Even before colony collapse the number of beehives had been steadily declining due to lack of beekeepers, even with our human population increasing. One or two hundred years ago almost every household kept a few hives, now it is outlawed in many places. It may not be perfect but London is taking a step in a great direction.

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  2. may

    Jun 23, 2011 at 9:26 am

    The FDA needs to just go away period! I believe that this is just another way that the elites will “depopulate” us….We need bees to pollinate our food supply and they know it…In the meantime (since they took over healthcare) cigerettes will have enormous labels on them for the first time…It’s ALL about control!

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