An open-source bee for a poisonous environment: Difference between revisions

== Transcript ENGLISH VERSION 🇬🇧 (dubbed)==

:You are listening to, “<i>An open source bee for a poisonous environment</i>”. This podcast is produced by The Soft Protest Digest.

:My name is Julien Perrin, I'm a beekeeper since 2009 and my farm is called HappyApi. I’ve always been interested in spreading information about bees because it is, first, a passion and second, I think it's important to spread the word on what responsible beekeeping practices can be. You can also find many articles on my website which is: apihappy.fr.<br>

:I’ve been breeding Buckfast bees since 2009 and my job is therefore to multiply bees that are “rustic”. So what does rustic mean? It means that they do not need chemicals or other things to live on. This work I do so that beekeepers can have freedom and not depend on the chemical industry or other things.<br>

:Our main project at the moment is to multiply bees that are resistant to a parasite called the Varroa that sucks the fat out of the bees, which makes them weak and infects them with viruses. What we are trying to do is simply to multiply bees that are able to handle that by nature.

:From a biodiversity perspective, there is something that is major at play, even if we are only talking about the bee. Indeed, if tomorrow we are left with a bee produced by large bio-technological companies which is then sold to beekeepers around the world, as it is the case with wheat or corn for instance, we will then be left with a disastrous biodiversity. And that's what we are working against. We want a diversity of breeders to select a bee that meets the needs of a particular environment and to multiply it for the community. It requires a lot of energy but it allows to have a variety of points of view which can guarantee a true genetic diversity. We must prevent big bio-technological corporations to control the bee.

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== Transcript ORIGINAL VERSION (french) 🇫🇷 ==

:Vous écoutez, “<i>Une abeille open-source pour un environnement empoisonné</i>”. Un podcast produit par The Soft Protest Digest.

:Et d’un point de vue de la biodiversité, il y a quelque chose qui est important à l'échelle de l’abeille. Si, effectivement, demain on a une abeille qui est produite par des grandes sociétés de bio-technologie et qui est diffusée aux apiculteurs un peu partout dans le monde, comme certaines variétés de blé par exemple. On aura alors une biodiversité catastrophique. Et c’est c’est pour cela que l’on milite. On veut qu’il y ai une grande diversité d’éleveurs qui sélectionnent une abeille qui corresponde aux besoins du milieu et qui la multiplie. Ça demande beaucoup d'énergie mais ça permet d’avoir une variété de points de vue qui peuvent faire exister une véritable diversité génétique. Il faut empêcher que des grandes firmes de bio-technologie maitrise l’abeille, mettent la main dessus et nous fasse perdre la diversité.  

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