| Not all change is huge. But a small change can lead to much bigger things, and that's how watching Wendy's documentary affected me.
In watching Every Third Bite, I learned so much. The film's title comes from the role that honeybees play in our food chain. These pollinating workhorses are responsible for every third bite we on this planet consume. For this reason, colony collapse disorder is really very frightening. Several theories as to what is causing colonies to collapse are briefly discussed in the documentary.
It also covers how bees used for commercially based honey are treated. The absolutely most interesting and life changing fact for me? When the honey that these bees produce is harvested, it's replaced (because the honey is produced as food for the bees during their resting periods - like fall and winter) with high fructose corn syrup. So we get the honey that the bees produce by pollinating whatever flowers Sue Bee or whoever provides them, and they have to eat HFCS? No thank you.
Another utterly fascinating thing I learned through watching the documentary was the unexpected and creative locations for bee hives, such as the rooftops of New York City buildings, and locations the heart of Chicago - where the vocation of beekeeping was taught to unemployed members of the community as a means of getting them back to work. Jill has mentioned that she gets her honey from a local organization that rescues feral bees. I get my honey from a similar - and possibly the same - organization.
After watching this documentary, I will never again buy anything other than local honey from apiaries that ensure that their bees are left with enough honey to feed themselves.
I hope you'll take the time to watch it - it's truly a great way to spend 9 minutes! |
