Thursday, January 06, 2011

Honey laundering: The sour side of nature’s golden sweetener - The Globe and Mail

In the last few years, global food supply distribution chains and systems have begun to interest me considerably. Often the implementation of these systems has far-reaching, not-necessarily-obvious economic consequences and side effects.



I also have a passing interest in bees and apiary. Linked is an excellent article about a 'lucrative contraband' smuggling scheme involving honey. You don't often stop to consider the source of it, but honeybees are a critical linchpin for our food production environment. Crops would be devastated without their pollination work.

Bottom line on this article: be wary of cheap imported Chinese honey.

Honey laundering: The sour side of nature’s golden sweetener - The Globe and Mail

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Commercial honeybee colonies continue to die off (aka that time the Cheerios Honeynut bee told me to buzz off).