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So you’re telling me the “crazy hippies” who demand to buy only local honey from local farms were actually right? That it is actually better for you? Guess I’ll have to start finding local honey.
So you’re telling me the “crazy hippies” who demand to buy only local honey from local farms were actually right? That it is actually better for you? Guess I’ll have to start finding local honey.
Another downside of globalization, it has become cheap and easy to move food items across the world, so Vietnamese sugar syrup can be sold here as "honey" and it becomes a race to the bottom - actual honey producers either go out of business or have to do the same thing. Then a free trade advocate will point to how much the consumer price of "honey" has declined to show how well it works. This should be straight up r…
Come again?[1][2]
> it takes an NMR machine to know differently
Does it really?[3]
[1] https://www.fda.gov/files/food/published/PDF---Guidance-for-...
[2] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_108.html
[3] http://www.aoacofficialmethod.org/index.php?main_page=produc...
Sometimes I wonder if we could develop hardware tools to test for psychopathy or just low empathy and just hot-iron-brand these disgusting individuals.
So you’re telling me the “crazy hippies” who demand to buy only local honey from local farms were actually right? That it is actually better for you? Guess I’ll have to start finding local honey.
Sucrose is a very minor component of honey.
Another downside of globalization, it has become cheap and easy to move food items across the world, so Vietnamese sugar syrup can be sold here as "honey" and it becomes a race to the bottom - actual honey producers either go out of business or have to do the same thing. Then a free trade advocate will point to how much the consumer price of "honey" has declined to show how well it works. This should be straight up r…
The problem is US-based companies fraudulently representing sugar syrup as honey. Would it make a difference if they called locally produced sugar syrup “Tennessee Honey”?
The use of Vietnamese syrup over domestic syrup is irrelevant to the overall fraud.
So you’re telling me the “crazy hippies” who demand to buy only local honey from local farms were actually right? That it is actually better for you? Guess I’ll have to start finding local honey.
> That it is actually better for you? Nutritionally, honey isn't that different from sucrose, so no. It's like the HFCS vs sucrose argument; they're basically the same, and you're still eating sugar. I do actually buy local farm honey, though. It's incredible how you can see and taste difference in monofloral honey.
My father in law and my brother in law keep bees. My brother in law told me about a disgusting practice where firms imported honey from China, filtered it, then added local honey and then exported the honey as bio-honey. Sometimes I wonder if we could develop hardware tools to test for psychopathy or just low empathy and just hot-iron-brand these disgusting individuals.
Another downside of globalization, it has become cheap and easy to move food items across the world, so Vietnamese sugar syrup can be sold here as "honey" and it becomes a race to the bottom - actual honey producers either go out of business or have to do the same thing. Then a free trade advocate will point to how much the consumer price of "honey" has declined to show how well it works. This should be straight up r…
Why all the talk about globalization? The problem is US-based companies fraudulently representing sugar syrup as honey. Would it make a difference if they called locally produced sugar syrup “Tennessee Honey”? The use of Vietnamese syrup over domestic syrup is irrelevant to the overall fraud.