Can we get a bit real on chemicals in honey. The way some are portraying 
it is that the bad chemical beekeeper, Snidely Whiplash, is pouring 
nasty stuff all over creation and poisoning us all, but mostly on 
Prucilla Pureheart who is always in danger.  But they, Lance Sterling, 
will come to the rescue with their "pure" honey. The characterization is 
laughable. The characterizers slander the majority of beekeepers. They 
throw mud at all of us who are responsible but use "chemicals", whatever 
in the world that means.

Truth is, most all beekeepers are responsible when it comes to producing 
honey for sale. If you think, for maybe a few seconds, you will realize 
that honey comes from supers, (pause while you ponder that) and those 
supers are not put on until a set period expires after any treatments 
are done to a colony. In most cases treatments are done well after the 
supers are taken off, not before, since most are fall treatments and are 
isolated to deeps, where the bees and brood are. Not the honey. The 
honey left with the supers (Pause for additional pondering.). Therefore, 
the supers never come in contact with anything added to the colony, and 
neither does the honey. That is why there has not been any difference 
between organic and non-organic honey when they have been tested.

The argument that organic honey is somehow better is both not 
sustainable and Bienenfurzluft.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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