I became aware of the ruthless manner in which some enterprises are conducted through some friends in Guatemala. For years, our contact in that country, a Canadian married to an Indian woman, has produced honey for us. One day, quite unexpectedly, a powerful cotton company established itself in his neighbourhood and began to clear vast forest areas and plant cotton. Without any real necessity, only because of habit, the owners had their cotton plantation dusted, not manually of course, but on the generous lines the Americans are accustomed to, by plane. The finely distributed poison was intended to prevent supposed pests from settling on the cotton plants. It did not worry the commercial giant that various other insects, including bees, were killed as a consequence of their dusting. In fact, our contact lost 300 colonies of bees! Moreover, he was forced by these circumstances to pick up what was left and move to another area.
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