A thought, as does happen. Looking at another part of the food chain and its byproduct which is very beneficial to us. Like cows with their milk, chickens with their eggs, we have bees and their honey.

And it seems that bees are also on the hit list of industry and like the other animals, they are utilised and exploited. But the thought that started this one was the ‘fact’ about honey being potentially bad for small infants and shouldn’t be given to babies under 12 months. I knew this, but didn’t know why, so looked it up because of a comment about them being given lots of other toxic components by that age, but not honey.

So, I wondered if honey might actually have something in it that protects the immune system against certain toxins. And would it help to clean and build a healthy system? Strangely enough, once I mentioned this on a comment online, I got two replies from seemingly bots, trying to take the piss. One saying the extra special ingredients was C Botulinum. Weird, I thought that you could get a serious bacterial infection from something that is antibacterial. And it turns out they don’t quite know why babies catch that, but they think it’s honey. Even though the condition is considered extremely rare (although that word doesn’t mean what it used to either), it seems mad they decided it was honey. Especially when we know see the harmful practices and substances being dished out to babies, children, and adults.

As honey isn’t always even honey these days, I can see why that might cause caution as it’s instead just sugar and cornsyrup, so it’s not good for kids. But there is something about it that makes it special, same with the bees and all the other creatures doing what they are meant to. Existing, creating, and providing, and we as humans benefit from that if we can understand and appreciate it.

Squirrels, these are rewilding specialists, in my opinion, after reading the statistic that 80% (ish) of all the nuts they bury for later, they never find again. So, I wondered if they even meant to find them. Maybe they are making sure new trees get maximum distribution. As an extra point, there has been discussions about sterilising squirrels as they think they are a pest.

Birds – already being targeted and mentioned in Playing Chicken and with chickens being domesticated, bear the brunt of many changes first. But birds generally are also rewilders of seeds and plants. They’re pest control as well.

Nature has a never-ending and huge network of benefits to know about, and while we ourselves aren’t too bad at Filtering, we are under pressure. Our systems can only deal with so many disruptions and toxins, as with the environment. And just like if the human body gets attacked and will react to something in survival mode, I get the feeling nature has that capacity too…

(c) K Wicks