[ExI] bee free, honey! it's fake

[spike at rainier66.com]

Fun aside for a Saturday morning, signifying nothing.  Well, something to
me.

 

We mentored two of our scouts, helped them with their Eagle projects and
badges.  Family vacationed in Italy.  They picked out a nice gift from
abroad, a goody box, Italian cheeses and treats, mailed it back, gave it to
us with their heartfelt thanks.  A jar of something, looked like jam or
preserves of some kind.  The writing on the jar was in Italian, but I used
ChatGPT to translate.  Wish I hadn't.  Miele is honey.  Not your sweetheart,
it is the gooey bug barf that I am ethically and morally opposed to humans
devouring.

 

Well damn.  They had no way of knowing that I personally think of collecting
honey as reprehensible, they meant well.  Mine is a puzzling attitude
perhaps from one who made his "living" doing that as a teenager.  I did not
allow my "honey" to even open that jar.  She knows me.

 

I had an idea.  I thought of a way to give that honey back to the bees.  Not
the same ones perhaps: I will not travel to Italy to give it to Italian
bees, or their descendants.  But I can give the honey back to the same
species.  I cannot right every wrong, but I do what I can for them.  If it
is available, bees will devour honey sooner than they will collect pollen
and go make their own.  I make a plate, ring the rim with Tanglefoot to keep
the ants out of it, put the honey in the center.  They will find it.

 

Miele is Italian for honey, and I think their techno-word mielbio is going
toward either raw honey or perhaps organic honey.  Looking around the
internet, I found a company called MeliBio, which is working on creating
synthetic honey, bee-free.  

 

https://melibio.com/

 

What a time to be living, ja?

 

Well OK, we already have synthetic paraffin, completely bee-free, created
thru ethylene polymerization.  Bee wax prices dropped when the synthetic
stuff was coming online.  So now, if MeliBio is successful and can
synthesize honey cheaper than the bee honey, we can keep our grubby paws out
of their hives and let them pollenate our crops without robbing or molesting
the little stingity-ass bitches.

 

Cool!  

 

spike

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