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A gentleman in the Alps tends his bees the old-school way, waxing poetic about what bees do and keeping his hives in a special bee chalet. At a ginormous commercial beekeeping operation in the United States, adapted to industrialized agriculture, bees must be trucked in to pollinate miles-wide monoculture crops. In regions of China, they use so many chemicals that the bees have died out, and fruit tree blossoms must be pollinated by hand by humans. In More Than Honey, Swiss filmmaker Markus Imhoof sets out to look at the current state of the honeybee…

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