Posted on 01/02/2009 6:49:24 AM PST by Daffynition
Cool shot, did you take it?
Our "government" cannot even be truthful about the meaning of the word IS.
The article casts a wide net.
Says that even if it’s honey, it may not be “organic” because the plants, many miles away, that the bees collect honey from may not be 100% organic (or even fair trade farms). Flies land on animal waste too.
The OTHER beef the author has is that honey-flavored foods may not contain a significant quantity of honey. Here’s some other breaking news, tofu hot dogs DO NOT CONTAIN BEEF, PORK, or even DOG!
Sounds like honey producers took a lesson from the bond rating agencies. ;)
Take your mind off it by remembering that you’re eating BEE SPIT!!
Garden - Honey Ping
Environmentalist minds have too much time on their hands if they are worrying about how to micromanage bee hives, and raise the price of honey with expensive tests and regulations.
My honey comes from just about 12 miles down the road and thats good enough for me.
High energy bee spit.
The left is so bloody anxious about fair trade coffee. Why don’t they want the SAME protections for other employment fields? Why must our tech jobs be shipped overseas just so things will be “cheaper”?
I had raised bees for a period of time. I have never tasted honey as good as from those bees. I always suspected that commercial honey was not the same as mine. I recently opened my last jar of 25 year old honey and shared it with family members. Best honey they ever had was their comment.
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If it says made in America on the label, then it’s good enough for me. I certainly wouldn’t trust imported “honey” from China or anywhere other than maybe Canada.
This probably wouldn’t have become a problem if people weren’t buying crap from China. Nobody there cares about testing or labeling.
The word “organic” doesn’t offer many guarantees but the marketplace understands there is money to be made by using it.
Just as low-fat does not mean HEALTHY. Look at how much sodium has been added to “low fat” foods to compensate on flavor.
I though it was honeybee vomit...
hmmm honeybee vomit...
BTW, honey is the only food that does not spoil.
It seems unlikely that honey could contain any noticeable amount of pesticide. That would kill the bees.
The nectar has to be digested before it becomes honey. Just because it came back the same way it went in, doesn't mean that it isn't sh!t.
Delicious sh!t, at that.
I think we need a Honey Czar. A cabinet level position, and a gigantic new bureaucracy to rival TSA. No way can we continue to allow honey to be sold with no regulation. We need government standards, testing, inspection, of the entire supply chain. We pay for it by taxing... hmm... howz bout we tax gasoline? Screw that lets just tax BTU’s. And all animate objects! Yes! What fun! Oh, lets tax cell phones even though they are inanimate objects!!!! Here we go if it moves, if it does not move, and if it makes heat, or cold lets tax it!!!!!!!
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