From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 07:29:32 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: AOS Apiculture section

Hi to all on Biological Beekeeping

Clay wrote:

> As said above I never clip, but mark queens as breeders only(not always).
> Mostly trying to defend others so they could clip if they felt they must. I
> personally would never clip( damages the queen). Just not sure their should
> be laws against it for organic beekeeping.
>
> Clay-trying not to offend others!

Reply:

This is a big part of the problem with laws. By not wanting to offend
others do we have laws then that are realistic and of the real world, or
just perceptions of what we want or hope for, for not wanting to offend.

Sometimes you have to write what is real and actually done in practice to
really have something workable.

Illusions of the mind for what work should be, don't necessarily apply to
real world work.

We mainly want the new laws written correct, but not unattainable, and not
dictatorial with power to pick and choose limitations from region to region
depending upon who is overseeing, because of querks within the language!

Dee