Honey Bees Ethical Dilemmas

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For the past years, there have been several reports in both the U.S and Europe about the widespread and decreasing rate of honeybees. Several honey bees’ species have already been labeled as being endangered and has continued to be a problematic issue. Honey bees have played an economic role in sustaining both the environment and the agricultural production system. Honey bees are responsible for cross-pollination and contribute to the growth of flowers as well as provide habitats for other animals. They are the key reason for the majority of the production of seeds both directly and indirectly as “Pollination is an essential step in the reproductive process of the world's nearly 300,000 species of flowering plants”, emphasizing the importance …show more content…

However, if this continues, the likelihood of bees dying for our own personal benefits of having larger plants and crops-and at the same time diminishing our food supply is a possibility. Without pollination, we will not live. In addition, there are several toxic pesticides that that have been treated in food and which the public has allowed to have enter in their bodies, the water, soil, and air.
Industrialization
With the use of industrialization, bees have become genetically manipulated in order to grow more hair to carry more amounts of pollen, as well as be able to resist different types of diseases. This has caused several ethical issues regarding bees as bees have gotten to the point where they have become weaker and fragile. The book contains several interviews conducted at several locations like Michigan, China, Wisconsin, etc., with beekeepers, artists, ecologists, farmers, and more. One example includes the destruction and results of Chinas beekeepers near Chengdu “Where most bees have been wiped out by pesticide use, and the fruit growers have been forced to pollinate by hand”, this is an example of the negative externalities that humans are capable of (Swan, 2017). Overall, the present state of bees has been concluded to be the fault of humans, and therefore bees can only be saved by

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