At 08:07 PM 1/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
 
>Just thought the rest of you might be interested on the "Save the Honey
>Bee" campaign of General Mills.
>Seems a small amount to the sales of Cherrios.....at least to me.
> Ralph Johnston
 
Hi Ralph & Bee Keeping Friends,
 
Well if you had to help the OLd Drone eat all those HONEY O's or what ever
they were called you would not bee saying that...<G>
 
BTW. My cat that helped me out DIED,... I found out later that HONEY O's
does nothing for a cats
urinary system, and I am wondering what it did to my..own but so far no
problems.
 
Anyway it is good to know that at least 20,000 box tops were returned to
GM, and this in a very small way  has added to the one billion dollar
profit the post office made last year, their largest ever, for which we are
to be rewarded soon with a postage increase. As for the bee research I can
without asking anyone at any university tell you that for certain the money
has been spent and then some.
 
Were any bees or beekeepers saved is another question. At least those
beekeepers who saw through this phoney effort on the part of GM and did not
participate and may have saved a lot of belie ache and postage.
 
Should you go out an buy a box of cereal because money has been paid for
bee research? If you can find it on sale and its not out dated, and you are
not concerned about the urinary health of your cats or kids and it does not
bother you that the honey in it was produced and then stolen from some off
shore beekeeper and the box itself problematically is more healthful to eat
I would still consider checking out POST's cereals at least they used to be
up front about telling you eating it will make you very important or was
that impotent.
 
The truth is if you want honey on/in your food you are better off adding it
yourself not only saying money in doing so but knowing for sure how much
and what you added to your food is much safer then letting a money grubbing
cereal manufactures do it for you that would in an instant substitute
anything cheaper and sweet for honey no matter what's listed on the product
label and that's why they don't tell you how much they put in each package
and why so seldom is honey ahead of salt in the list of ingredients.
Ingredients are listed according to the volume of each in depending* order,
so it is written, so it must be...
** (depending*) on who's watching)
 
ttul, the OLd Drone
 
... That the still murmur of the honey bee