"Greedy almond industry lobbyists have intentionally ruined Australia's honey industry and doomed Australia's honeybees to an insidious future of suffering, all to increase investment funds for overseas swindlers.
Desperate and naive commercial beekeepers are in limbo with 100,000 hives in a state of being stranded amongst pesticide-ridden monocultures that will soon be in dearth. Sacred bees will be forced to rob each other or starve, further spreading mites, hive beetles, and American foul-brood.
The almond industry knew the risks but convinced the Victorian, South Australian, and Queensland departments of industry that they needed pollination certainty and that the infestation was under control in NSW, even though they knew testing 10 percent of bees would never be sufficient.
The Almond cartel is looking at the long term, aiming for the future of bees to be controlled by cartels like Duxton or Cockwoods, who have strategized for a long time to take over the industry.
https://ddaf.com.au/projects/duxton-bees
They see the future of pollination under their control, allowing them to monopolize profits while providing bees with sugar and dosing them with miticides.
Colony collapse disorder will be blamed on the mites, not the pesticides and fungicides that have been killing bees in Australia for decades.
Boycott monoculture almonds, yes.
Protect the state borders, definitely.
Should NSW hives have been allowed to pollinate the almonds in Victoria and South Australia? No.
Hypocrites, indeed.
But the super-spreader event has deemed the eradication of the varroa mite impossible, rendering the poisoning and killing of bees in NSW redundant and should cease."