PURE, NATURAL, ORGANIC
It could be argued that Honey, all Honey is described by the above, but
in a regulated market if you are selling a generic product like honey
there are rules, regulations, and soon new taxes for those who for the
most part been using negative advertising on their honey labels. Maybe
they are getting what they deserve but what worries me more is the
public is going to get a new government program that will do nothing to
improve the honey they may want to consume and be no more then another
official government licensed rip off.
Negative advertising is when you put something on your label that
would say to the public that it is different for others who do not
have the same on their label. Honey is honey, "pure" honey, or
"natural", or "organic" are used to show a difference between one honey
over another, when their may be no difference that can be detected by
the consumer as all honey it is hoped is pure, natural, and organic.
Yes those who want to join the green market with their honey and label
it as being different then other honey with the words "ORGANIC" will
have a chance to prove their faith in big brother and add an additional
tax expense to their business of $50. per bee "organic" bee yard and
$500. per "organic" Honey House. It is interesting in many retail
market's all this will extra expense not allow the seller to receive any
extra charges as those who police the pricing do not recognize label
changes as good reason to charge more.
Some of the rules for "organic" honey seemed to have come from the
bureaucratic asylum, especially those that require inspections of the so
called "organic" pasture the organic beekeeper's bee's are working to
make that organic honey and the idea that this could be done by our
government at any cost is more orgasmic then organic.
Like all good government regulation there are easy outs for those who
have the gold, and if you have about $30,000.00 you can be made your own
"organic" honey inspector and not have big brother blowing smoke up your
noise, or for some like off shore organic providers they can get the job
done for $40.00 per hour.
Even the sugar fed by the organic beekeeper will have to be grown
and processed the organic way. What a crock of bad smelling organic
stuff this new regulation is and it will be law soon enough if a lot of
someone's don't take the time and effort to read the fine print and soon
as the comment period will be closed before you can read the entire
rule.
You can check it out in detail and download the whole mess searching the
government sites using "nop" or start by going to this government urinal
and work back from there.
http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/rule/20513.htm>http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/rul
e/20513.htm
Just a little of what you will find:
=A7205.13 Livestock feed.
(iv) Bees from which organic honey and other products are harvested shall
have access to forage organically produced in accordance with the
requirements specified in 205.3 through 205.11 so as to comprise the
predominant portion of their forage needs.
(2) Non-agricultural products provided as vitamin or mineral supplements
may be used to satisfy the health requirements of livestock under
organic management, Provided, That a synthetic supplement is included on
the list of synthetic substances permitted for use in livestock
production provided for in =A7205.24.
Of course antibiotics are not permitted, you will find mega bytes of
reading, but if you look you will find a order blank for a hard copy if
you are into it or you can download the whole thing.
I hope those who are interested will get in this tread as I would like
to hear from some defenders of this regulation who think that paying
more taxes to the government will make their honey any better then anyone
else, or think they will get more money for it at the super market.
ttul, the OLd Drone
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