![]() ![]() Her book discusses the moral and social structure of bees with their perfectly democratic society. According to May, this monocrop pollination is comparable to a human eating a hotdog every day for a month, moving via truck, and then eating a hamburger every day for a month. Bees pollinate one-third of the food grown on Earth. The bees in those conglomerate colonies are put on trucks every month to go and pollinate a new monocrop. Her grandfather’s honey factory is vastly different from the commercialized beekeeping across America. Her grandparents taught May the art of beekeeping in a converted World War II army bus called “The Honey Bus.” In this no-engine and rusted vehicle lay a magical world May compares to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. The secrets May learned as a fifth-generation beekeeper also helped her through sticky family situations. Meredith May’s new book, The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees delves into the uncanny similarities between the inner workings of beehives and human society. ![]() ![]() The parallels of queen bees in a beehive and the real world don’t just stop at high school. ![]()
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