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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tristan" data-source="post: 13464" data-attributes="member: 30">good idea. never a bad thing to have checks and balances.the most basic issue is simply cost and how to pay for it.keep in mind that an ombudsman is not legally binding, so they an only make recommendations. but as they may have the ear of the govt minister, people may be motivated to follow the recommendations.   the other issue is do you find someone who is an expert, which is extremely difficult as no one is an expert in everything in beekeeping, and they have their own bias. or you get someone outside of beekeeping, then they are then left to engage experts and navigate their bias. they have to be careful not to fall into industry rot, something has happened in other industries. (this is where the info the industry/experts gives them is flawed but assumed to be correct). keep in mind beekeeping is fairly small, there is not many real unbiased experts out there. so i think it will be difficult to find someone who could even do the job, given the nature and size of the industry.</blockquote>

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