Giz_Medium Review of Vanishing of the Bees

Vanishing of the Bees (2009)

"falls short in addressing the problems with bees are treated as commodities"

[7/10 · 2 November 2020]

This is such an important topic, as you know, so much of our food system is incidentally being reproduced by the pollen being transfered from one flower to another when bees are foraging, and this movies deals with the subject of their "mysterious" disparitions. because there is no way to prove pesticides and monoculture kills them in the long time. But this movie is also very annoying in the sense that it treats the topic in the same utilitarist manner that apiculturist have : yes, it's threatening a big chunk of worldwide agriculture with their disappearances in north america and europe, but it was only notices when the ones having a business interest in exploiting bees, and the movie, while taking time to criticise some of the methods used to increase their productions, falls short in addressing the problems with bees are treated as commodities, and how unhelpful for their existence, and incidentally ours, it is that humans steal most of their food reserves.