In message <4be901c36b38$eea53190$7604c518@gollum>, James Fischer
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>I'd guess that handing the
>standards to a judge and mentioning the "Equal Protection" clause
>of the 14th amendment to the US (as it applies to state laws) and
>the "due process" requirement of the 5th amendment (as it applies
>to federal laws) ought to be an easy slam-dunk.
I normally love your posts Jim, but please will you translate this for a
non-US person?
>If we simply leave well enough alone, we have a product that
>consistently tests at higher purity levels than any other food
>product.  Honey is perceived as "organic" by definition, and we
>should not allow anyone, including a government agency, to suggest
>otherwise.
I like the idea that bees might be selective in what they bring back to
the hive (and perhaps plants are selective in what they put into
nectar). Is there an international comparison of pesticide contaminants
in honey in different countries with different agricultural and non-
agricultural land use practices? Is there any study of changes over, say
40 years, in the mineral content of honey, given the drastic degradation
in nutritional standards in fruit and veg over this time. (I gather the
old rule - eat 5 portions of fruit or veg a day - needs modifying since
nutritional quantity has halved in 11 years (was it?) as proved by a
Canadian study?) Hence the widespread interest in "organic" food.
--
James Kilty

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