Beekeeper calls out Marco

Springbank Honey Ltd on Instagram: "Making us burn healthy hives!!!#newzealand #fire #family #honey #familybusiness"

In this thought-provoking video, a beekeeper shares their experience with burning healthy beehives in New Zealand. With Marco Gonzales' NPI allegedly behind the decision, the beekeeper expresses their concerns and showcases the seemingly thriving colony. Learn more about this unusual practice...

www.instagram.com

Dudes not happy

 

[tristan]

i wonder if hes paid the beeks he owes a lot of money to.

 

[Alastair]

Doubt it. Professional parasite.

 

[John B]

I have offered before at my own expense to go down and verify whether the supposedly healthy hives have disease or not. As for ordering the destruction of abandoned apiaries that aren't abandoned I find that extremely hard to believe. Nevertheless I would go down and independently verify if asked to with the only proviso being that I have absolute freedom to publicise what I find. While I don't want to prejudge anything I think most of us know what I will find but believe me if it turned out that an injustice was occurring then heads would roll.
Integrity has always been one of the most important things when it comes to the operations of AP ones and AP twos and their integrity has now been challenge repeatedly by this person .
My offer stands. I have a reputation for honesty and integrity but would absolutely be happy for others to carry out these inspections with me, everything above board, everything public.
And at the end of it all I will try and do what I have always done in these situations and work with people to sort out why they have a problem and how to solve it.

 

[Alastair]

I would go down and independently verify if asked to with the only proviso being that I have absolute freedom to publicise what I find.

Highly doubt your offer will be accepted, because he will want his version published, not the truth.

How do we know this guy is a blatant liar? Well a lot of what he says cannot be proved or disproved as no independent people to verify. But some things he has said are patently untrue. For example he valued the stored boxes he had to burn at two hundred dollars a box. Even at brand spanking new they would be worth half that, and watching the video he himself posted of them being burned, most of them were poor shape and real value might be $30 or $40, IF they did not have AFB.
On one of his videos he was queried about the $200 per box valuation, and his reply was - well that's what they are on the books at. Does that mean he is also defrauding the tax department?
That, and some other obvious contradictions we know the guy is spinning a story and is disconnected from the truth.
One of the other horrible things is the people he owes money to are not speaking up, because they are hoping that one day they will be paid, but think if they speak up they will never be paid. This is an awful situation for people who are already on the brink of bankruptcy and no matter how hard they work they cannot support their families in the way they want. While Stephen is taking his family on world trips and not paying what he owes.