When demand decreased after the war, beekeepers and honey packers found it difficult to cover costs, and the number of honeybee colonies began to decline.(2) Congress reacted by introducing price supports for honey in the Agricultural Act of 1949. The basic purpose of the legislation was to ensure that enough honeybees would be available for crop pollination. However, since receipts from honey and beeswax far exceeded revenue from pollination, Congress subsidized honey production at prices that would allow beekeepers to maintain viable operations.

a) Chinese honey is barred from importation to the US
b) Chinese honey has had safety issues
c) Chinese honey is sometimes ultrafiltered, sold to India, and mixed with Indian honey before export

What I found dumb was the assumption that someone with a profit motive wrote the original article. Who would have a profit motive to write an article expressing those concerns?

Also, the US is pretty much an expert at handing out market-distorting subsidies itself. Just sayin’.

BTW, LMAO, now that the self serving nature of the original article and the sketchiness of the claims behind it have been acknowledged by so many (including Maggie) can we all agree who the idiot is now?  (Spoiler: it’s you.)

Simple, don’t pay the workers a fair wage and don’t worry about sustainability.  Cuts costs remarkably!

We all vote on the world we want… with our wallets.

Apparently Chinese honey is so inexpensive, for whatever reason, that it was undercutting American producers.

Canadians.

All of my produce at the grocery store has little stickers that say where the apple came from. Some canned food says it’s from China, as does some cheap candy I’ve seen.

A work friend used to work in the grocery industry and he said that this was a new rule/law/regulation in the produce department a decade or so ago. It caused a lot of grief at first until it got figured out, as new things tend to do.

Still worth knowing that most supermarket honey is probably from halfway around the world, though.

But, many good things are can actually be filtered out. Take Molasses for instance, it’s nothing but leavings from the processing of brown sugar. One form of molasses is very good for you. But don’t tell anyone, the price will go up.

Despite the potential cardiac problems the condition is rarely fatal and generally lasts less than a day. Medical intervention is not often needed but sometimes atropine therapy, vasopressors and other agents are used to mitigate symptoms.

There. You’re child or pet is more apt to be killed by consuming one of your own house plants.

What am I feeling right now?

(Good job!)

In my home town there was a big Nestle factory. Before it was run down and sold off to Soprole my brother-in-law worked there as a lab assistant. Part of his job was testing 40 foot tanks of Chinese honey that was used in the baby formula, which (of course) contained no added sugar.