原标题：美文共享《The Colorful Honey》《五颜六色的蜜蜂》
The Colorful Honey
Blue and green honey may look cool,but beekeepers in northeastern France are not happy about their strange-looking new product.
Over the past few months,beekeepers in Ribeauville,a town located in the Alsace region,have noticed that bees there have been making honey in many strange colors.Bees have been returning to apiaries with different colors coating their bodies.The colors then end up polluting the honey.
A recent research showed that a nearby M&M’s factory is behind the change in color.Waste from the factory has been exposing the bees to a number of chemicals.Some of the chemicals are used in the outer shells of the candies,which come in many bright colors.
The local beekeepers do not know if the polluted honey is dangerous to eat,but they are not taking any chances.They are throwing away the candy-colored honey,which means a big loss to local businesses.
“For me,it’s not honey,”Alain Frieh,leader of the town’s beekeepers union,tells the Reuters news agency.“It’s not sellable.”
The honey industry in this part of France has been suffering this year.According to Frieh,many bees died last winter or were unable to make honey because of the bad weather.This new problem of colored honey is hurting the beekeepers’ way of life even more.
The region is home to about 2,400 beekeepers and 35,000 colonies of bees,according to Alsace’s chamber of agriculture.The beekeepers harvest approximately 1,000 tons of honey each year,making the product a big part of the region’s economy.
Agrivalor is the company that processes the M&M’s factory’s waste.According to co-manager Philippe Meinrad,the company has been attempting to stop the pollution.
“We discovered the problem at the same time they did,”Meinrad tells Reuters.“We quickly put in place a procedure to stop it.”
译文：
五颜六色的蜜蜂
蓝色和绿色的蜜蜂或许看起来很帅，但法国东北部的养蜂人却不喜爱这种看起来古怪的产品。
在曩昔的几个月中，坐落阿尔萨斯区域的维列小镇上的养蜂人注意到那里的蜜蜂酿出了许多色彩古怪的蜂蜜。蜜蜂身上带着不同的色彩回来养蜂场。那些色彩终究染到了蜂蜜中。
一项最新研讨发现邻近的一家M&M’s工厂是形成蜂蜜改动色彩的本源。那家工厂排放出来的废物使蜜蜂遭到那些化学物的影响。其间的一些化学物用于糖块的外包装，那是许多艳丽的色彩的本源。
当地养蜂者不知道吃那些被染色的蜂蜜是否有风险，但他们没有冒险。他们把那些糖块色的蜂蜜扔掉了，这对他们形成了很大丢失。
阿兰·弗瑞艾是当地养蜂协会的一位领导人，他告知路透新闻社：“关于我来说，这不是蜂蜜，不能出售。”
今年以来，法国这部分区域的蜂蜜职业一向遭受着被染色的侵扰。据弗瑞艾说，因为恶劣的气候，上一年冬季许多蜜蜂逝世或许不能酿蜜。而现在的染色蜂蜜问题愈加严峻，影响了养蜂者的出产。
依据阿尔萨斯农业委员会介绍，该区域是大约2400个养蜂户的基地，那里有3.5万个蜂群。每年养蜂户们收成近乎1000吨蜂蜜，这使得蜂蜜成为该区域经济的重要部分。
安格雷瓦勒是处理M&M’s工厂废物的企业。据协作经营者菲利普·迈因拉德称，该公司一向在尽力阻挠污染。
迈因拉德告知路透社，“在他们发现的一起，咱们也发现了该问题。咱们很快采取了办法来避免污染。”
——摘自：《高考英语晨读美文100篇》（亓军主编）（我国宇航出版社）
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