Andy are you a communist by any chance...in less than 3 paragraphs you bashed 2 companies for trying to make a profit....as for the Urinary track problems be careful the company way be based in Texas and sue you... -----Original Message----- From: Andy Nachbaur <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 2:39 PM Subject: Re: Save the Honey Bee >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