There is nothing coherent about the article.

Ok, lets make an almond tree that doesn't need bee's.

Now we'll have less bee keepers, since they will lose the work they are doing, and less bees.

Tomorrows article will be about bee collapses and how that matters.

Nothing in the article points to the almond process that's killing bees. It implies other activities in California are responsible perhaps we need to look there.

If they are trying to make a claim a bees life matters, then why does it matter over a grasshopper that's also killed by the pesticides?