It’s Simple Folks….. No Bees….. No Food!
Chef Isaac | July 24, 2010
It’s Simple… No Bees=No Pollination=No Farmers=No Food… Let me Explain!
It amazes me when I hear people say they do not like bees. They usually mean they do not like anything in the wasp family. But that’s beside the point.
Honeybees are truly the backbone of our food supply. There are places in India and around the world that have no bees to pollinate fruits and flowers. The farmer has to go to each flower and brush off the pollen and than brush it back on another flower. What hard work.
It is a simple thing to understand. The primary job of a honeybee is to populate and to pollinate (honey is just a byproduct… a tasty one at that!). Honeybees pollinate one of every three foods we eat. They are reasonable for 90% of pollination. But yet we take that for granted. People say “I hate bees” or “I really do not like honey” and they even will persuade their kids and loved ones to have the same view point.
But if it wasn’t for the honeybees, we wouldn’t enjoy a lot of what we eat. Lets see…. they pollinate kiwi fruit, onions, broccoli, apple trees, almond trees, pears, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, cranberries, and vanilla… just to name a few.
Oh, I almost forgot…. do you like coffee? Or maybe you are a lover of chocolate? Or perhaps cherries? YUP…. all pollinated by the honeybees.
So please continue to support beekeepers in the United States. Stay away from store bought honey…. the majority is now coming from other parts of the world like China, Taiwan, and Argentina.
And for goodness sake…. LOVE the honeybees. But I guess life without coffee and chocolate wouldn’t be so bad. :**(
