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Just wanted to echo the comments of several others in this post. Thanks for a video that is very well done! We help small honey producers and bottlers bring their honey to market via the Internet, so we have a vested interest in resolving CCD and obviously they do.

We are fortunate in that so far, CCD has not affected honey bees in the Florida panhandle where the rare Tupelo honey is produced (according to an article from USA today - http://www.armadillopeppers.com/about-honey-bees.html).

The bees and beekeepers play a vital role for us. Thanks to them and again, the team that put this video together.

Great post, so nice to see all of the rules lined up in a row, on one easy to digest (and print) page. Thanks!

I would just like to add my thanks for producing such a beautifully done piece on the honeybee plight. My husband and I started beekeeping last year and unfortunately had a disaster. In June we had a swarm and it neccessitated requeening the hive. Initially it seemed to be going well, but we soon determined that it didn't take and we were heartbroken. We will be getting more bees this spring and are determined to not give up. We feel that it is our ever so tiny part in a crucial humanitarian effort.

Again, congratulations on the intelligent, educational effort put forth by SE and Haagen-Dazs in the form of this wonderful video. It puts a very serious issue in terms all can grasp, even those who feel as long as they are able to purchase the honey bears with the yellow lids in the grocery, all is well with the universe.

Hi Ed...I think you all did great on this video and explaining to everyone about CCD and why it's so important for all of us to help protect the honeybee. I myself didn't realize that CCD was going on with the honeybees and what it was. I buy a lot of honey myself in large quanities at a time at my local grocery store (12#8oz.container;which is a 1 gallon 8oz. container) that I use for tea.
So as you see honey is very important to me. I also love to garden and love photography and write. So I take a lot of photos every year of not just of my flowers & garden but also I love to follow all the bees around and take several photos of them on the flowers pollinating the flowers. I have a number of close-up shots of all kinds of bees with the pollen on their legs as they pollinate the flowers.
Sorry for getting carried away here, I just think that it's amazing how bees work and people don't seem to realize how important a bees job really is. Without them like you all mentioned in your video...we would be without a lot of things. Well your video tells all!

Thanks Ed & Everyone Else for putting such a great video together and let me know what I can do to help out.

Peace & Love,

Sunshine

P.S. Keep Smiling Everyone!!! Because God doesn't make Loosers...He makes Winners in All of Us!!!

Fillipelli suggests:

grants to CSAs and farm markets so they can more readily accept food stamps or have reduced prices for those of limited means.

I live in Willits, CA, where the farmer's market already accepts food stamps. Vegetables average $2-3/pound, though. With the rise in food prices over the past few years, that's only a little worse than the local chain stores, and an actual bargain when it comes to beets and leeks.

A local organization, WELL (Willits Economic Localization: http://www.willitseconomiclocalization.org) is going to start a second farmer's market this spring, which will also accept food stamps and feature lower prices.

We usually only have them when we feel a cold coming on, preferring Canadian whiskey or Bajan rum (Mount Gay) with a bit of ginger. Haven't thought about using whisky (single malt) as it seems a shame to water it down that much. Either way, if we have a cold, the toddy either makes it go away ... or we don't seem to care so much. :)

It's 20 below with windchill today so I might need one of these...

I likke to add a slice of lemon too. And substitute honey for sugar. Mmmmm

I've had hot toddys topped with a whipped egg white and sugar mixture (almost like a meringue) and some fresh nutmeg. Is the egg white stuff a traditional topping or am I describing a completely different drink?

I've read all of Michael Pollan's book and this is considered more guideline than commandments. The first one is just the first general step. He's referring to, say, Go-Gurt. She wouldn't know what to do with it - brush her teeth? As for eating healthy - I'm a busy college student but I make it a conscious decision to eat right since I've done enough reading to know that poor diet high in animal-based proteins and fats is what is driving the obesity, heart disease, diabetes and even cancer in our country. Don't eat organic - it is often shipped from very far away so it's not always that good for you since it's not fresh and has a high carbon footprint due to transportation. I go to the grocery store twice a week and spend about $30 ($60/wk) on fruits and vegetables and seeds/nuts mostly. It would be convenient for me to just eat at fast food restaurants and get my quick heavy fix of calories, but if i ate twice a day at Taco John's, McDonalds, Burger King, etc.. it would cost me about ten dollars a day ($70/wk). Or even eating on campus costs about $50-60 so it's looks like it's better to just make my own food at home. And it's MUCH cheaper to make your OWN pizzas instead of ordering them out all the time. It's just less convenient. I actually love the time I spend making my food... cutting the vegetables. It creates so much anticipation for what you're about to eat you're about to explode by the time you finally get to eat it.

The problem with corn-fed beef is that the cattle are literally sick when slaughtered. A grass fed cow reaches slaughter weight around 4 years (~48 months), but a corn fed cow is grass fed for 6 months and then sent to a feedlot where they are fed a corn/grain based diet until slaughtered at 14-16 months (about 8 months to reach 48 month equivalent). The grain, that their digestive tracks aren't meant to digest, can make them very sick. The biggest health problem seen on feedlots is bloat from all the grain that they're systems just can't properly break down which creates large amounts of gas (leading to methane that gets in the air). Because the corn makes them so sick, they are injected with antibiotics (which you then eat). Your food is only as good as what your food ate. Of course the beef tastes different - corn is the basis of almost our whole diets by sweetening up this or that or making foods more appealing. But the meat tastes so empty compared to properly prepared grass-fed beef. It's not really the humanity of these operations that keeps me from eating beef, it's knowing that the food I'm eating would have died within a few months after if not slaughtered at 14 months from health complications due to force fed corn.

You find once you care about what you eat and where it's coming from, all of these guidelines are pretty much common sense and come pretty easy to follow. Most of the rest of the world consider food always near the top of the priority list - and they don't have the rates of disease as we see in this country. Wonder why?

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I love crispy, thinly sliced, salty french fries!
But, I usually order a salad :(