> The National Research Council recently evaluated the safety of genetically > engineered foods (NRC 2004). All many of us ask is that GMO be put on the label so those among us which feel GMO foods could possible be linked to health problems can decide for yourself to use or not use. Why would Monsanto have a problem with that yet they do! See "The GMO Trilogy" sold in most health food stores Adds are now running by the Corn syrup lobby with one liners saying. "The body can not tell one sugar from another" Hard to believe such a complex issue can be summed up in a single sentence. Even U.S. researchers are puzzled why every time they run a trial feeding bees HFCS compared to sucrose the bees live half as long. I am even puzzled by the findings and at a loss as to the reason why. I was given the research from the bee lab to research when I did my ABJ article on the subject. I still take out and read at times like this trying to see what went wrong. Important: The bee lab (Tucson & Weslaco) has always said that the bees fed HFCS lived half as long as the exact same bees fed sucrose. This should actually have been stated differently BY ME ( in my ABJ article) and in publication to instead say: The bees fed HFCS died as they aged in the last part of the repeated experiments. I think this is important because researchers are puzzled we the shortened life span. Our present technology has not turned up the WHY so only the results of the many experiments remain to puzzle the deep thinkers . The same experiments were ran in 1974 ( Murphy Tucson Bee lab) when HFCS came on the market with the same results. The question: Is all sugar the same?( as the corn syrup lobby claims in national adds being run on TV) Is HFCS, sucrose & honey the same as it effects the human body? Why does the corn syrup lobby protest makers of certain products saying on their label: "contains no HFCS" I personally want an accurate label and not a label which says the honey can be found any one of 10 countries. Reality check! packers have to document all batches sold to stores in case of a recall and attach a batch number. Why the generic label? Could be because the USDA reports around 70% of U.S. honey sold to be from other countries the packers want to hide the fact. bob . *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm