Gilles and Lee-Ann said : "Your customer is likely referring to genetically modified plants"
No, he does know what he says, he was wondering about honey foraged by genetically modified bees, not as something existing for sure, but as something that could happen in a near future -just questionning...-

"Europe ... position is one of protectionism"
I can assure that europeeans consumers position has very little -not to say nothing- to see with protectionism . All kinds of public and private informations have been largely given to the citizens, and :
    1 the question of natural and uncontrolled spread of unwanted genes to wild plants has never received satisfactory answers
    2 most of the G.M. plants are modified to accept any amount of some herbicides, without beeing affected, and the idea to eat those herbicides seems unacceptable
    3the final consumer must have the rigt to choose, and when given the choice, more than 90 percent choose G.M.O. free food
    4etc,etc,etc

"I can drink and do enjoy excellent tap water..."

Much probably, you don't really know precisely the quality of your tap water . It would be very costy to make the required analysis to reach to certitudes . And some fairly high level of residues of imidaclopride (powerfull neuro-toxic from the neo-nicotinoid family) have been recently found in underground water in Canada...

Bernard SAUBOT

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