Tainted Honey?

As Gershwin wrote, "'Taint Necessarily So".

Murray McGregor pointed out in another thread:

> it is... ...being stirred up, in particular by the Sunday Times. The
> beekeeper in question has actually been retained by the paper and is
> banned from talking to anyone else and all statements are prepared or
> vetted by the paper (this info direct from the tv journalist). They
> believe there is some kind of payment deal for a good anti GM story
> involved here.

When a respected newspaper prints a headline that gives the misleading
impression of a threat to the food supply, citing a "test" performed at its
own request, one can only expect future headlines about traffic fatalities,
with articles explaining that employees of the Sunday Times pushed the
victims in front of moving vehicles as part of a newspaper-sponsored "study".

British beekeepers have voluntarily taken exceptional care to avoid the
potential for contamination of honey.  The British Bee Farmers Association
advised all members to keep all hives 4 miles from all GM trial sites in 1999,
and increased their suggested "safe distance" to 6 miles in 2000.

British honey is not "contaminated" by GM-pollen.  The only contamination
appears to be the taint of advocacy in "news" reported by The Sunday Times.

British Bee Farmer Association statement on "buffer zones":
http://www.beefarmers.co.uk/press-release.htm

        jim