Honey laundering - it's big business

[roguejuror]

According to a Food Safety News investigation, more than a third of honey consumed in the US has been smuggled from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. To make matters worse, some honey brokers create counterfeit honey using a small amount of real honey, bulked up with sugar, malt sweeteners, corn or rice syrup, jaggery (a type of unrefined sugar) and other additivesknown as honey laundering. This honey is often mislabeled and sold on as legitimate, unadulterated honey in places such as Europe and the US.

http://www.health.umn.edu/healthtalk/2013/02/15/putting-an-end-to-honey-laundering/

 

[betplom]

I can only imagine the amount of fraud/scams going on that we are unaware of.

Scams that affect the health of a country based entirely on human greed.

This story is just the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Saulty]

Don't they have a big cartel in Canada for maple syrup?

 

[betplom]

Don't they have a big cartel in Canada for maple syrup?

How the fuck would I know?
I was only born here, I don't know 100% of everything that goes on within our borders, more like 1/100th of 1%.

But if I had to guess I'd say yeah, if money is involved there is probably something shady going on.

Pavy everything is corrupt in our world pal.

 

[Mudcat]

Plus a lot of bees these days are taking steroids and blood doping.

 

[Cami]

Muddy.

I love honey, I put in my tea, and I like peanut butter and honey sandwiches. I like organic honey with nothing added. Or at least that's what I think it is? hmmmm, time to start rethinking my honey brand.

 

[Saulty]

All honey is organic unless they use genetically engineered bees.

 

[Mudcat]

People have been sounding alarms forever about the horrors of antibiotics and genetically engineered shit being introduced into our food, but all I ever see is our life expectancies going up and up.

 

[Saulty]

I'm more worried about my burger being made of horse meat than beef. Especially the ones at fast food restaurants are very suspect in the quality of meat they use.

 

[rito]

People have been sounding alarms forever about the horrors of antibiotics and genetically engineered shit being introduced into our food, but all I ever see is our life expectancies going up and up.

Health care costs too.

 

[MonkeyF0cker]

People have been sounding alarms forever about the horrors of antibiotics and genetically engineered shit being introduced into our food, but all I ever see is our life expectancies going up and up.

Hmm. So you think life expectancy is increasing randomly and not correlated to addressing various health concerns?

 

[Mudcat]

Now heavy metals in the food is something else. I don't want a lot of Ozzy and Motorhead when I'm trying to eat.

 

[betplom]

Now heavy metals in the food is something else. I don't want a lot of Ozzy and Motorhead when I'm trying to eat.

"Where the Chelyabinsk?"

"Chel-ya-binsk" !!!!

 

[Cami]

All honey is organic unless they use genetically engineered bees.

I mean organic as in nothing added, no sugar, maple, anything, just straight up honey. It's best at the little markets...I like the summer time when you can get it right from the bee keeper himself, though I haven't found a place like that here yet....the hunt continues.

 

[Saulty]

I mean organic as in nothing added, no sugar, maple, anything, just straight up honey. It's best at the little markets...I like the summer time when you can get it right from the bee keeper himself, though I haven't found a place like that here yet....the hunt continues.

Oic..the correct term is virgin for what you like..like virgin olive oil.

 

[Bay Bud]

we only buy local honey, when you actually know the folks you're getting most of your food from, you don't get scammed. if you do, you know where they live and work.

 

[Frank Duvale]

It is very dissapointing to hear that stuff like this is going on in the world today, but i wouldn'y take the numbers in this reports or stats too seriously. They tend to exagerate volumes, percentages, numbers etc. for various reasons: politics, coruption, commercial purposes ... Don't get me wrong, i'm sure that dodgy things are happening, just do not take these figures too close to your heart.

 

[Mudcat]

Excellent. I was totally going to take those numbers close to my heart but now because of that savvy post, I won't.

*Numbers being removed from close to my heart due to savvy post*