Friday, April 8, 2011

Bee sugar and the GMO question

I mentioned yesterday that I still needed to get sugar to feed my bees. The tricky thing is that I can't just go to the store and pick up any ol' sugar. It has to be cane sugar. Here's my reasoning: Sugar is made from either cane or sugar beets. Sugar beets are one of the crops that have widespread genetic modification (GMO). A large number of people are sensitive to GMO, and have various weird reactions. Insects and animals can have weird reactions, just the same as people. Do I want to give a potentially reaction-inducing substance to approximately 6,000 bugs that nearly all have stingers and the temperment to use them? I think not. So, I will get cane sugar. Cane is not GMO.

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