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I remember reading this article in my local newspaper back in 2008 and thinking "caveat emptor" even if you're a label reader:
The Seattle P-I surveyed 60 honey products commonly sold in the Pacific Northwest and found glowing praises of healthfulness, sincere promises of quality and an endless selection of advertising adjectives touting honey as the true elixir. "100% Pure." "U.S. Grade A Pure." "U.S. Grade 1." "America's Best Honey." "U.S. Choice." "Natural and Pure." The list goes on and on, but it's mostly hype, experts say. "If somebody puts 'U.S. Grade A' on there, who's going to say it isn't?" said Harriet Behar, outreach coordinator with the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service. "There's no enforcement, so people can say whatever they want." The government takes a minor role in the grading of honey. It's left entirely up to the industry.
Your only real safeguard is indeed standing next to the beekeeper while he harvests the "organic" honey directly from the hive -- but even then you're not home free if those bees ranged into inorganic fields to gather nectar.
Jerry Hayes, chief of the apiary section for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, said there are no organic standards for honey in the United States because honeybees forage in a 2 to 2 1/2-mile radius of their colonies. "They're flying dust mops and will pick up unbelievable amounts of environmental contaminants," Hayes said.
Ah, well, you pays your money and you takes your chances.
I don't know what to say about this other than I am glad that I buy Certified Organic honey from local sources.
How much more until the USA wakes up and tells China to go **** themselves???? They are buying up our country lot by lot and no one but a handful of Congressional representatives are even willing to talk about the insane trade agreements that we have in place with mercenary China.
I too, buy my honey from local farmers, its great stuff.
I refuse to buy food products from China, I tell my wife to look on the labels for dog treats, and if they are made in China, to assume they are poisoned with chemicals or other harmful things.
Weird, because I can get fresh, organic honey whenever I want here... The local farmers markets always have stands and there's usually a honey guy parked near where my sister works selling honey for $4 a jar.
Maybe you should just buy locally and forget the stores.
I get a fairly large selection at my local health food market, but beekeeping is getting more and more popular in NYC itself since the ban was lifted.
In fact...
Sept 17: NYC’s 1st Honey Fest!
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Come celebrate the first full year of legal beekeeping in NYC! We’ve got a full day of food, music, crafts, and talks lined up to spread the buzz about everyone’s favorite pollinator.
This is what happens when you do what the Reps want and weaken regulations. Because we have to protect fetuses but actual full grown human beings can drop dead of food poisoning.
What's that you say?
Liberals have outlived all the worthwhile liberal causes?
Nothing left for them to do?
Really?
Hmm, I hope they don't just start makin' a bunch of crap up.
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