More Than Honey Film Analysis

Jacobsen’s objectives in writing Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis, are the world’s bees disappearance, pollinator crisis, and the overall the incline of human agricultural crisis. I believe anyone who read Fruitless Fall can be honked to the book. It is an easy to read, and not too many difficult scientific words, so if people in other areas read it they can understand it too because it is highly

The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu tells the fictional story of the relationship between an overpowering wasp community and a docile bee community. The wasps take over the bees, basically rule over them, and instill their very different way of life on them. A group of anarchist bees that oppose the wasp government secretly escape and begin a new community. The story abruptly ends though when both the cartographer wasps and anarchist bees die from humans and the cold. Throughout The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees, Yu creates tension to build toward the climax.

Volk is a writer for Discover magazine and he follows around Darren Cox who is a 50 year old beekeeper who tries to make a change. The biggest question they are trying to answer is what is killing the bees, and how can it be stopped? Cox’s bees do not produce the amount of honey they used to and he would like to see an answer. Another point they consider is that the bees are not only dying, but they are weakening. He believes that the quality of work that bees put out is diminishing, which is then leading to the decrease in the quality of the honey in recent years. Volk’s article helps display how losing bees will impact us significantly. As far as solving the bee problem it is not what I was looking for but, I will use it as an example of what needs to change.

The honey bee is vital to an estimated $117 billion annual production of crops through pollination within the United States more than a half of the food that humans consume has a correlation with the bee either directly or indirectly. The USDA reports the following food products would be immediately damaged if no bees were available to pollinate:

Furthermore bees specifically are particularly efficient with it being estimated that they are the sole pollinators for 50% of the approximate 80% of flowering plants which rely on insects for pollination (Bradbear, 2009). Their efficiency is further illustrated by the fact that a single colony containing 25,000 forager bees is able to pollinate 250 million flowers per day (Bradbear, 2009). As a result of this it can be seen that bees are hugely important as pollinators with many species of flower being completely dependent on them. Furthermore, the importance of bees extends beyond ecological diversity; certain types of bees are hugely important economically. In addition to pollinating a large variety of fruit and vegetables, bees produce Honey; together this results in them having an estimated value of service of £200m a year in the UK (National Audit Office (NAO), 2009). Overall it can be seen that bees are of significant importance that any decrease in population should be treated with concern, as a result of this a large quantity of research has been conducted into identifying possible

The honey bee population is going down, and while most people think it doesn't really matter or just don’t notice it, they should because it is a very big problem. I think the other people should try and change that. If bees die then it will not be good, at all. In this persuasive piece of writing, I will be trying to make people rethink about the bee population, and what it could potentially do to the human race.

Since the late 1990s, beekeepers around the world have observed the mysterious and sudden disappearance of bees, and report unusually high rates of decline in honeybee colonies. Bees do more than just make honey! Bee transfer pollen and seeds from one flower to another, fertilizing the plant so it can grow and produce food. Cross-pollination helps at least 30 percent of the world's crops and 90% affects our food. The sweet fruits humans eat such as, strawberries, mangoes, grapes, apples, and bananas would not be the same taste wise as they are now. We simply couldn’t live in the same world if it weren’t for the bees.

When I first read through Nathanael Johnson’s article discussing the fall of bee populations in relation to a catastrophic unearthly demise, I kept an open mind. With my personal opinion about the bee crisis stifled, I read on to see if Johnson could aptly convince me of his argument. Unsurprisingly, he failed.

The bees believed that a communist society where they owned their own means of production would be a better life for them, but as Montgomery, the humans lawyer lost the trial he warned Barry that ‘a negative shift in the balance of nature is imminent’. As it turned out, the immense amass of honey put every bee out of a job, including the vitally important Pollen Jocks and Barry’s best friend Adam. Barry now believes he lives in an ideal world where no one has to work for anything ‘I don’t understand why they aren’t happy! We have so much now’ (Benson, Bee Movie 2007). The bees realised that living in the communist society was not the ideology they had wanted, now the bees didn’t need to make honey they had no work to do, this put bee kind in jeopardy as without bees making honey they was no pollination so the flowers were dying

The Bee Movie is a film that shows the never ending struggle between good and evil. After Barry Benson leaves the hive and begins to talk to humans, he sees that the humans have been harvesting and eating honey without the bees’ knowledge. He finds out that bee farms exist and their only purpose is to make bees work and to take the honey from them; from Barry’s eyes humans are grossly mistreating the bees. When he first gets to the farm, Barry overhears two beekeepers talking: “They make the honey and we make the money” (Hickner, Bee Movie). The bees work extremely hard to make honey, so Barry is appalled that humans are greedily taking their entire life’s work. Because of this, Barry decides to file a lawsuit against all humans. The case is set up in a way that presents the humans as bullies and the bees as defenseless, harmless creatures. As Barry explains in his opening statement, the honey companies are “exploiting tiny helpless bees,” and back in the hive bee news anchors tell the public that humans are “packing [honey] and profiting from it illegally” (Hickner, Bee Movie). It becomes very clear that humans are evil and bees are inherently good. Also, during the trial, Ray Liotta suggests that “someone just step on [Barry] and [the people involved in the lawsuit] could all go home,” proving that humans do not care about bees (Hickner, Bee Movie). The theme of good versus evil is supported through the fact that the bees use honey, one of the movies motifs, for everything. They use it as antenna gel, soap, toothpaste, food, and they even fill pools with it; honey is an integral part of their daily life. It is everything they know and humans are taking it without their consent. As soon as bees are eligible, they start to make honey and they work until they die. Honey is literally their life’s work and the bees want a say in who gets to use it.

The documentary called "More than Honey" directed by Markus Imhoof released on June 12, 2013, takes the viewers and explains why bees are necessary, what they do and most importantly what is causing them to die. This film takes the spectator to a much deeper understanding of what bees are like living in their natural habitat on a daily. Also how they are at risk of catching diseases and parasites. The strongest area of this documentary was logos they really enforced and expanded on the fact that bees are essential to growing fruit but they didn’t use much emotion though when they did it was very effective last it fell short on ethos.

Jim and Jan Nesti have been in the bee business for years and their bees aren’t dying. To keep their bees safe they had to know what’s killing the bees.

There are a few weaknesses within an otherwise delightful read. First, though well-researched, the author neglects to acknowledge the impact that multinational corporations have on the beekeeping and agricultural industries, especially where monocultures are concerned. If individual farmers did not compete with the corporations, they would lose their heritage, farms and livelihoods. They observe multinationals using monocultures and perhaps believe monocropping is the only plausible way to contend. Next, Jacobsen theorizes that honeybees are trying to collapse, evolutionarily, in order to become stronger and that human economics and addiction to honey will not allow this to take place. This is a weak argument as evolution takes its own course - this detracts from his argument for a complex reasoning for CCD. Finally, instead of including the controversial feral-type hive within the pages of the main book, he relegates it to the appendices, where the reader might have no exposure to it. I found this to be the most interesting topic in the book - it offers a natural solution to mite infestation, explains how honeybees act in the wild, and provides twice as much honey if this simple non-technique is

Human Society is complex but, at the same time fragile. For us to continue functioning effectively, our society stands on various pillars. One of them is the honey bees. It may seem odd that the fate of our species lies on the tiny wings of these small creatures but, surprisingly they are much important. During duration of my speech, I expect you all to learn about their importance and the threats they face.

Recently, studies are showing a dramatic decrease of the bee population. As a result, there have been fewer instances of the great pollination process performed by the bees, therefore affecting the food and produce whose growth process are dependant on the bees. Honey bees originally came from Europe, but the problem of the decreasing population became known after ‘Pollination Week’ declared by the senate and governors on June 22nd. The reasoning behind the lack of bees on agriculture farms, is due to the harmful pesticide spray. “Denied access to neonics, farmers will inevitably revert to spraying their fields- either from the ground or by plane- with older and more dangerous insecticides”(Rodgers Media 6). Furthermore, because there are fewer pollinators, the food they help flourish have become a worry to researchers. “The world would be a desolate place without our pollinating friends, devoid of flowers, flowering plants and many of our favorite foods”(Hannon Gerald 9). Implies the importance of the bees handiwork in the production of the produce that we eat. Although it is costly in order to transport the