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> Sadly the truth is in the U.S. most people are content to live on fast food,
>drink five or six soda pops a day AND buy foreign honey because it IS
>cheaper!
As a honey producer, I watch the prices. I watch them go up, I watch them
go down.
When the Chinese had their contamination problems, I watched them really go
up.
Imagine...$1.50 a pound in the barrel. Imagine again...over $4.00 in the
jar on the supermarket shelf.
Now that foreign honey is again flooding the US market, the barrel price is
dropping like a rock.
Packers are paying as little as they can get away with...well below $1.00 a
pound.
Free trade folks say this is a good thing, as it lowers the prices for the
consumer.
Who's kidding who? The price of honey is still over $4.00 a pound on the
supermarket shelf.
Makes one wonder...foreign honey is cheaper...for who...the packer?
Mike
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