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Here's a very straightforward guide to buying honey. If you see honey at a supermarket, no you don't, that's sugar syrup. If you see honey online, no you don't, that's sugar syrup. If you find an old dude with a small stand and a bunch of (most likely unlabelled) jars who only accepts cash, that's where you get real honey.
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If you want to put your local beekeeper out of the business of selling honey, then by all means, complain about an inadequate regulatory state. Because that's who the bureaucrats will go after.
What Buraeucrats are actually administering for anyone wondering: Insurance Programs Market-based risk management tools to strengthen the economic stability of agricultural producers and rural communities. Apiculture Rainfall Index The Apiculture Pilot Insurance Program (RI-API) provides a safety net for beekeepers’ primary income sources – honey, pollen collection, wax, and breeding stock. Beekeepers can purchase RI…
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To my untrained eye, this is a natural consequence of focusing on profit above all. So a natural consequence in cultures where such focus exists.
And yet, this has happened since we've been around. One of the most ancient examples of the written words we have is from a copper merchant complaining about the quality of the ingots he received[1]. The tablet could just as easily have been a complaint about the quality of honey purchased. This is a reversion to the mean. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir
For instance, Chinese mother refuse to buy powder milk in china since there has been so much fraud. Manufacturer put melamine (a plastic chemical) in powder milk for years to make them appear with more protein than reality, inducing kidney damage to newborn.
That kind of thing doesn't happen in civilized society, this require a complete lack of morality and wide corruption.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42286030
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To my untrained eye, this is a natural consequence of focusing on profit above all. So a natural consequence in cultures where such focus exists.
And yet, this has happened since we've been around. One of the most ancient examples of the written words we have is from a copper merchant complaining about the quality of the ingots he received[1]. The tablet could just as easily have been a complaint about the quality of honey purchased. This is a reversion to the mean. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir
Here's a very straightforward guide to buying honey. If you see honey at a supermarket, no you don't, that's sugar syrup. If you see honey online, no you don't, that's sugar syrup. If you find an old dude with a small stand and a bunch of (most likely unlabelled) jars who only accepts cash, that's where you get real honey.
Better yet befriend a beekeeper. You gain a friend and honey.
Here's a very straightforward guide to buying honey. If you see honey at a supermarket, no you don't, that's sugar syrup. If you see honey online, no you don't, that's sugar syrup. If you find an old dude with a small stand and a bunch of (most likely unlabelled) jars who only accepts cash, that's where you get real honey.
How do you know this? Is there actual reporting on what percentage of honey in supermarkets is adulterated, rather than just anecdotal reports that at least some is?
> Of 123 honey exporters to Europe, 70 are suspected of having adulterated their products, and out of 95 European importers checked, two-thirds are affected by at least one suspect batch.
This is only one example, similar stings elsewhere have likewise found bleak results.
As the son of a beekeeper I can attest to this, the honey you find at a grocery store and what actually comes out of a hive are very different things. Even if you boil natural honey you still don't get the texture and consistency they have at the store.
[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2023/03/24/hal...
Should you fail (illegal pesticides, ingredients differ than label, too much lead, whatever) then you lose your deposit, all profits made that year on that product, and go through a process of re-earning the right to sell that product.
For small local brands I'd exempt them until the economics became viable.
Here's a very straightforward guide to buying honey. If you see honey at a supermarket, no you don't, that's sugar syrup. If you see honey online, no you don't, that's sugar syrup. If you find an old dude with a small stand and a bunch of (most likely unlabelled) jars who only accepts cash, that's where you get real honey.