Only a return to the bees’ natural state will allow them to survive on their own, the way they were meant to. By trying to domesticate these animals, we push them to the edge where they can’t really survive at all anymore. “Treated bees still die in huge numbers every year. What we have seen is bees treated to keep them alive, eventually to the point where they cannot survive even when treated.” Some beekeepers are concerned about the definitions of these words because it could affect subsidies from the government when colony losses are experienced.Īs Solomon Parker states on his Treatment Free Beekeeping podcast episode 41, “Bees are different from other livestock in that they are relatively short lived, and aside from our selective breeding, cannot become truly domesticated. In the beekeeping world, domestication is used as way to justify the act of treating bees. To address this issue, we need to look at the definitions of both the words “domesticated” and “livestock”, which I’ll address later in this article. In the debate between treatment-free and treating beekeepers, the statement and question has been posed many time before… “The bees you have are not ‘feral’, they are being kept in an unnatural state, their genetics have been affected by man for thousands of years, so why not take care of your ‘animals’ when they are sick, just like any other animal man keeps as stock or pets?”
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