Andy Nachbaur wrote:
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> PURE, NATURAL, ORGANIC
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Andy,
 
obviously all over the world you can find the same stupidness. Everybody
knows, here are some beekeepers trying to find a gap in the honey market
and call their honey "biological honey", "organic honey" and so on. They
intend selling it for a much higher price in health-food shop. It's
quite the same according to other agricultural products.
 
They are breeding bees and select.
They use foundations with wax from other beekeepers.
They feed their bees with sugar.
They use unnatural methods to fight deseases and mites.
They possibly live beside a farmer who uses pesticides.
They let their bees fly to crops in the neighbourhood not to flowers
of                                              a virgin wilderness.
They heat the honey to make it runny.
They sell their honey or combs in plastic container.
 
It is not unpossible to find pure natural honey, but you cannot produce
it in an industrial country like the USA or Germany. You have to go to a
jungle, to Africa or India. You can try to produce a more natural (=
less unnatural) honey, but this is a very hard work. If someone's honey
is better than others it needs more than to give it a such a name. You
have to provide proof of this by figures and facts.
 
 
Dr. Reimund Schuberth
beekeeper in Germany (Bavaria)
breeding of Carniolan queens
insemination-station