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'It's only important if you eat food': inside a film on the honeybee crisis
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<blockquote data-quote="The Guardian RSS" data-source="post: 6994051" data-attributes="member: 78390"><p><img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/G+logo+long.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>'It's only important if you eat food': inside a film on the honeybee crisis</strong></p><p></p><p>Written by Adrian Horton</p><p></p><p>The Pollinators investigates the honeybee, which is essential to America’s agriculture and food supply, and dying by the billions in the process</p><p></p><p>Every February, Brett Adee joins a caravan of semi-trucks, bound for California’s Central Valley, loaded with millions upon millions of fragile, precious cargo: honeybees. In order for the state’s almond trees to bear fruit – and thus generate an <a href="https://www.almonds.com/sites/default/files/Almond_Almanac_2018_F_revised.pdf" target="_blank">$11bn industry</a> supplying <a href="https://www.almonds.com/sites/default/files/Almond_Almanac_2018_F_revised.pdf" target="_blank">80% of the world’s almonds</a> – they must be pollinated during the brief window in which the trees flower, from late February through March. And that requires an army of pollinators: some 1.8m hives of honeybees, almost the entire commercial supply in the US, drafted into big agriculture and trucked into central California from as far as the Great Plains and the east coast.</p><p></p><p>Related: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/01/alarm-over-deaths-of-bees-from-rapidly-spreading-viral-disease" target="_blank">Alarm over deaths of bees from rapidly spreading viral disease</a></p><p></p><p>Related: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/07/honeybees-deaths-almonds-hives-aoe" target="_blank">'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond milk obsession</a></p><p></p><p>The Pollinators is out in the US digitally with a UK date yet to be announced</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/17/the-pollinators-honeybee-documentary-film" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Since you’re here …</strong></p><p></p><p>… we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too.</p><p></p><p>If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more secure. Support the Guardian – it only takes a minute. Thank you.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://support.theguardian.com/uk" target="_blank"><img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/SupportGuardian.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Guardian RSS, post: 6994051, member: 78390"] [img]https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/G+logo+long.png[/img] [b]'It's only important if you eat food': inside a film on the honeybee crisis[/b] Written by Adrian Horton The Pollinators investigates the honeybee, which is essential to America’s agriculture and food supply, and dying by the billions in the process Every February, Brett Adee joins a caravan of semi-trucks, bound for California’s Central Valley, loaded with millions upon millions of fragile, precious cargo: honeybees. In order for the state’s almond trees to bear fruit – and thus generate an [URL='https://www.almonds.com/sites/default/files/Almond_Almanac_2018_F_revised.pdf']$11bn industry[/URL] supplying [URL='https://www.almonds.com/sites/default/files/Almond_Almanac_2018_F_revised.pdf']80% of the world’s almonds[/URL] – they must be pollinated during the brief window in which the trees flower, from late February through March. And that requires an army of pollinators: some 1.8m hives of honeybees, almost the entire commercial supply in the US, drafted into big agriculture and trucked into central California from as far as the Great Plains and the east coast. Related: [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/01/alarm-over-deaths-of-bees-from-rapidly-spreading-viral-disease']Alarm over deaths of bees from rapidly spreading viral disease[/URL] Related: [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/07/honeybees-deaths-almonds-hives-aoe']'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond milk obsession[/URL] The Pollinators is out in the US digitally with a UK date yet to be announced [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/17/the-pollinators-honeybee-documentary-film']Continue reading...[/URL] [b]Since you’re here …[/b] … we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too. If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more secure. Support the Guardian – it only takes a minute. Thank you. [url="https://support.theguardian.com/uk"][img]https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/SupportGuardian.png[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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