"Les abeilles malades de l'homme"

This is a troubling article from Le Monde in France that talks about the challenge to bee populations in France and here in the US. It's a serious issue, as we have read several times in recent months. The question for Chapelboro is "what are we doing to make sure we are the good news answer to that problem?" In other words, how many bees do we have, and what are we doing to encourage more? As the Le Monde story points out, there is a great danger in all of us becoming "insectophobes"! [Just found that there are beekeeper associations in both Chatham and Orange counties. See this story on an event they helped organize earlier in the summer.]
For those interested in how issues important to us are playing out in other places, especially France, here is a link to a list of all of the food issues that have arisen recently in several European countries stemming from imports from China. While the list appears in l"Expansion, the French business-oriented magazine, there is a broad review in Le Monde today as well.