Taking On the Resnicks

[CHR]

With threats of lawsuits for "bee trespassing" from Resnick owned orchards, bee keepers are weighing their options.

In late April, this year, just after most beekeepers had placed bees on long-held citrus locations in the San Joaquin Valley, a number of beekeepers received a startling letter from Paramount Citrus’ in-house attorney stating that “Paramount hereby demands that you immediately remove your bee hives a minimum of two (2) miles away from Paramount’s Property” and threatening legal action if this demand was not met. Honey bees can contribute to seediness in certain varieties of mandarins by transferring pollen from certain other varieties; seeds greatly reduce the market value of these mandarin varieties.

If beekeepers are held liable for their bees trespassing on another person’s property, no bee operation in the U.S. is secure. As one beekeeper put it “we’re going to war”. Past cases of trespassing bees have been decided in favor of beekeepers but never have beekeepers been pitted against as formidable an opponent as Paramount Citrus and its billionaire owner, Stewart Resnick.

Read the article here.

Needless to say, the Resnicks have the legal fire power - in every industry which they participate (including the flower biz) but do they have a winning issue here?

 

[Rhonda]

oh give me a break....can we call in the "bee whisperer" to train them?
lollollollol

 

[BOSS]

Bee's are cool!

My sister, up Lake Beryessa way (2 hrs west of Sacramento) has nearly 2000 hives...she does honey by the 55 gallon drum...they get moved from place to place several times a year, Almond orchards, Oranges, and they rest the bees in the upper meadows, where they get "Wild Flower Honey....

I've been there for the harvest...not an easy thing to do to get the bees to go where you want them to go... LOL...

Looks like the Resnicks are trying to enforce a "no fly zone" mentality...how stupid can it get?

 

[Chezbloom]

Free free, set them free

Release the bees in Lynda Resnick's massage room!

 

[RWK]

This has got to be one of the prize-winning examples of stupidity. How in the hell do you tell which bee came from which hive? I know....let's get some tiny fires, get some tiny irons, capture some few thousand bees and brand them.

This is just another example of my theory - The DE-evoultion of mankind or Stupid is as Stupid does.

I almost wish I were the judge if this case went to to court......I'd look at them and tell them to come back when they grow some brains. Clearly they are a few fries short of a happy meal, or their elevator does not go to the top floor, or they are a few jokers shy of a full deck.

 

[crazy daisy]

Release the bees in Lynda Resnick's massage room!

LOL! Good one!

Seriously though, the honey bee population is in serious decline and possible jeopardy, which will have much more devastating effects on our agriculture than having a few piddly seeds in mandarin oranges.

 

[una luna]

Well at my age, I can remember a life when there was no such thing as seedless grapes, melons and mandarin oranges....TOUGH!! We all lived quite well with seeds and the fruit even taste better. Seriously, we are facing a delima with the problem of less bees, some feel they are dying because of air pollution, what a surprise. The Resnick's need to "Go Green", it's fashion and it is now. No bees.....No food!!

 

[Victoria]

After having watched the news focussing on people dying violent deaths, children being raped and are starving, or are left to fend for themselves, animals being abused beyond agony, the planet is in environmental disaray... I see this thread. The resnicks are pathetic.

May they come back in another life as insects and may they land in a fly swatter factory.

V

 

[RJD]

They're obviously as concerned about the quality of their oranges as they are the relationship between TF and its member florists.

 

[Rock]

This is just another example of my theory - The DE-evoultion of mankind or Stupid is as Stupid does.

Just an very good example of evolution coming full circle! :>

 

[avenuegardensflorist]

.....



....the

'bee whisperer'

dude, that is a great one!



and bees are way cool.....
tupelo honey....van morrison

 

[Connie]

This has got to be one of the prize-winning examples of stupidity. How in the hell do you tell which bee came from which hive? I know....let's get some tiny fires, get some tiny irons, capture some few thousand bees and brand them.

This is just another example of my theory - The DE-evoultion of mankind or Stupid is as Stupid does.

I almost wish I were the judge if this case went to to court......I'd look at them and tell them to come back when they grow some brains. Clearly they are a few fries short of a happy meal, or their elevator does not go to the top floor, or they are a few jokers shy of a full deck.

Ricky, you are a jewel!:brandreco:brandreco:brandreco