Honey Production Process

Sunny Anderson visits a honey farm on the Big Island of Hawaii. This video is part of How'd That Get On My Plate? show hosted by Sunny Anderson . SHOW DESCRIPTION :How'd That Get On My Plate? explores how cutting edge technology can take simple raw ingredients and transform them into your favorite foods. Watch as milk, strawberries, corn, honey and potatoes take a remarkable journey converting into string cheese, strawberry margarita mix, blue tortilla chips, honey roasted peanuts and even vodka! Hosted by Sunny Anderson of Cooking for Real, How'd That Get On My Plate? gives food lovers an inside look at the methods used to plant, nurture, harvest, transport, heat, cool, slice, dice, mix, package and otherwise process raw ingredients into the foods you eat.

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[BadWolfMedia]

Too much smoke can hurt the bees. However I didn't see excessive use in the film. I didn't like their method of removing bees from the supers but it's faster than taking each frame out and brushing them off. Brushing them off would be kinder but take too much time.

[Nordimker]

That´s not beekeeping - it´s a masacre!

[trustyshopper]

LOL! The honey super she placed in the extractor was, "not that heavy", because had already been extracted.

[vampgirl137]

Actually the smoke sedates them, sorta like making them stoned. As a beekeeper, I don't believe that this isn't a massacre. Honey is only harvested a couple times a year, so by my calculations not even 1% of the bee population was killed by getting smushed by accident. During high work times, bees have an average life span of approximately 25 days anyway. So long as the queen is fine (and, any super with honey does NOT contain the queen bee) then the hive is fine. Get over it an enjoy the honey.

[longliverocknroll5]

@BelRiose2000 to be completely honest a bee hive has so many bees that literaly work themselves to death that this has nothing to do with cost effeciency but instead convenience for the beekeepeer

[BadWolfMedia]

@BelRiose2000 Not a lot really. You'd be surprised as to how tough a bee can be. The way they were getting the bees out of the boxes would irritate them more than kill them. Something like this wouldn't really put a dent in the hive population.

[BelRiose2000]

@BadWolfMedia How high percentage of the bees die when they remove them by hammering on that wooden stand would you think? There were a lot of bee carcasses noticeable when they removed the bees. Strange there is no cost effective way to make honey without killing bees.

[999933333]

@jorlson well if they sting im am

[Diocapiroto]

@longliverocknroll5 disadvantage or not, evolution talks for itself. If there are stingless species it´s because they are as adapted as the stinged ones. It´s the same to say that poisoned snakes have more advantage than constrictor ones. By the way, evolution took away their sting. They still have a primitive sting, a vestige of what was sting, but with out venom production..

[longliverocknroll5]

@Diocapiroto nothing will ever compare to what millions of years of evolution has provided them....they will be at a disadvantage even with those "strategies"

[Diocapiroto]

@longliverocknroll5 Those stingless species have many strategies to avoid attacks and defend themselves. For example, they can put propolis and wax in the potencial attacker, they also fly around, cumber in the hair and bite.