Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
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Re: Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
#2This is why I buy my honey from a local beekeeper I trust.
Re: Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
#3wow, it's almost like cutting taxes and disassembling the regulatory state creates bad outcomes anywhere it's profitable.
Re: Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
#4This is why I buy my honey from a local beekeeper I trust.
Agreed, I always felt honey was one of the easiest and best products to buy locally.
Re: Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
#5Feels like wherever you turn, you see a high-trust society disintegrating into a low-trust one.
Re: Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
#6Why call it fraud when you can call it honey laundering?
Re: Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
#7Honey is one of the most counterfeited food products in the world. Olive oil is another.
Re: Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
#8Simplest approach is to make two categories blended and pure. With contestants only being allowed to enter one. This would incentivize otherwise would be cheaters yo enter the category they can legit compete in, reducing the amount pf testing required to only those in the pure category, which would keep costs down.
Re: Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
#9wow, it's almost like cutting taxes and disassembling the regulatory state creates bad outcomes anywhere it's profitable.
you mean interfering with the free market
Re: Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
#10Here'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.