“Every Third Bite,” a collaboratively made documentary about vanishing honeybees
Monday, December 22nd, 2008Filed under: Irked Videos
Every Third Bite
Directed and produced by the Meerkat Media Arts Collective Winner of the Good Food Award Supported by the Clif Bar Family Foundation & W.K. Kellogg Foundation Official selection of the 2008 Media That Matters Film Festival
Every third mouthful of food you eat is pollinated by a honeybee. Without bees we’d pretty much all starve to death.
In the winter of 2006, honeybees in Europe and North America started to disappear. They disappeared by the millions. They disappeared without a trace. About one in every three colonies left their hives but never came home. Researchers started calling the mass disappearance CCD—Colony Collapse Disorder.
Bees play a central role in our food supply. They are crucial to our economy and our ecosystem. This is more than just a honey matter. Nature’s pollinators are dying out in epidemic numbers.
Watch a truly riveting documentary film after the jump…
