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“As Nickie explained with [[Spore|“Spore”]], the hyper industrialization of our food systems has led the biodiversity of our ecosystems to collapse. An excellent witness — and the key example of this crisis — is the case of the bee. | “As Nickie explained with [[Spore|“Spore”]], the hyper industrialization of our food systems has led the biodiversity of our ecosystems to collapse. An excellent witness — and the key example of this crisis — is the case of the bee. | ||
The reason being that the | The reason being that the behaviour of bees is the same for a wild bee as for a domestic bee: they pollinate the nectar of plants within their reach. A large majority of these plants being nowadays spread with insecticides, both wild and domestic bees die. Unfortunately bees are not only used to produce honey. They allow pollen to be distributed from plant to plant. Without this pollination plants can no longer reproduce themselves, and it is on this reproduction that depends more than 3/4 of our food production. | ||
To address this issue we took the train through the suburbs of Paris, to the region of | To address this issue we took the train through the suburbs of Paris, to the region of Essonne”, west of the capital, to meet beekeeper and biologist Julien Perrin. | ||
Julien breeds Buckfast bees, which can be considered a “rustic” species — which, in other words, means “resistant to all the disasters she has to face”. Julien works in collaboration with a large community of beekeepers to multiply these open-source bees. According to him, the bee must remain "<i>a common</i>" which no industry must take possession of, to avoid at all costs falling into the pitfall of privately owed seeds and breeds. | Julien breeds Buckfast bees, which can be considered a “rustic” species — which, in other words, means “resistant to all the disasters she has to face”. Julien works in collaboration with a large community of beekeepers to multiply these open-source bees. According to him, the bee must remain "<i>a common</i>" which no industry must take possession of, to avoid at all costs falling into the pitfall of privately owed seeds and breeds. | ||