Did you know that despite the honey bee being virtually extinct in its natural habitat in Switzerland, it is neither protected nor promoted in this country? What’s more, it is even kept as farm animal by beekeepers the same as livestock in agriculture and made to intensively produce honey: factory farming, fattening feeding, abusive use of drugs, breeding for performance, castration, artificial reproduction. The consequences? Epidemic spreading of bee diseases and parasites, suppression of adaptability to environmental changes, development of resistance to drugs etc. Your Swiss honey, unfortunately, is not the ecological and organic natural product you wanted and as which its producers like to sell it to you. And, therefore, beekeepers often cannot fully live up to their image as friend to nature and the bee.

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