Is urban beekeeping ethical? What are its benefits and disadvantages?
Urban beekeeping is the practice of working with bees in cities. This means that bees go around the city working to get pollen. Most people work with honey bees for expanding natural environments, since as bees move around, they drop pollen and bring pollen to the beehouse, helping more plants grow, and even providing honey for humans.
The idea of city bees first started in the 1980s in Paris, where hives on the roofs of buildings were introduced to a new industry in France. This practice is called Urban Beekeeping, also known as city beekeeping. However, we have to be aware of whether it is ethical or unethical. One benefit of urban beekeeping is that it helps make the city more green. As bees move from place to place, it helps spread pollination. This also helps the city grow with more plants and flowers. Also, it helps support declining bee populations. Bee population declination has been a huge problem, as bees are a key to human beings. As Einstein once said “If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live.”, we have to take into note that having bees in our daily life should be a must and that bees are a huge factor of the world’s development.
However, one ethical concern we may have to take into our minds is that bees can spread harm in health factors. For example, the increase in the bee population in urban areas could eventually stop businesses from starting. This means that bee swarms could block off an area of a business, such as the door of a mall, which could immediately cause people to avoid the area. Also, citizens may be stung by bees when interfering with them accidentally. Having these concerns would cause crucial impacts, eventually leading to a debate on whether beekeeping in cities is ethical or not. Therefore, we have to have a clear regulation and control of these bees, before implementing them into our daily lives.
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