this is not the optimum production method. intensively farmed bees just come out of the hives and drink sugar water left for them, and then go back into produce what alper calls false honey. they do not travel around the ecosystem as they should, pollinating plants, including our fruit and vegetables. he says they get unhealthy and die sooner. this is a pot of alper�*s honey, naturally produced and it really, does taste delicious. it's interesting how we are all familiar with battery farming and exploiting chickens for eggs and meat, but how many of us have thought about the exploitation of bees with intense beekeeping and the damage that is doing? it seems to me that the extreme conservation for bees