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A couple of thoughts - there will always be a need for growing some sugar cane, otherwise there would be no rum. And that would be a shame. Apiculture is also facing major problems, the bees in their hives under threat from chemicals, and, in London at least, a shortage of food for the bees from the ever increasing number of hives that have appeared over the last twenty years.

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Definitely could not manage without Mount Gay rum-and-tonic with fresh lime juice...Do you think moving the focus from sugar onto honey might make us more responsive to bee welfare?

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