“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets

Mmmm.... Trash can honey....taste the flavor

Honey bees hibernate during winter

It's amazing they can carry the trash cans to the convenience stores.

Probably a different species

They collect deposits and use the money for organic nectar to make honey. How they do it is none of your beeswax.

I think what you are seeing in the trash are yellow jackets a type of wasp. I've never seen a honey bee hone in on soda. It's sugary but they don't seem to be interested in it. We had a tasty pear tree in our yard. It was a prolific tree and the pears dropped and rotted a lot. I'd pick them up so our kids or dogs wouldn't get stung. I saw every kind of wasp we have in Ohio. No bees.

Yes, but there's still a mix. The varying flavours result naturally with different seasonal flowers and crops, too. We buy honey direct from a beekeeper and buy months' worth at a time, and he gives us a selection made at different times. The colours and flavours are quite distinct.

Their honey takes on characteristics from whatever they use to make it. Set out skittles or m&m's of a single color & the honey will take on that color, ditto flavors from various flowers. The downside of the skittle/m&m thing is that processed sugar makes the honey taste like plain sugar. Color depth is also affected by time of year & how long it's been in the comb before harvesting.

Honeybees are naturally averse to most heavily-treated plants, but the CFIA has some pretty stringent guidelines in terms of what can be certified as "organic" (and they're SUPER d!x when it comes to honey - I mean, it's only one of the most important and useful natural compounds on the planet, so why not bury it under mountains of unnecessary regulations that make it less accessible???) 💩

That's not really accurate about pharmaceuticals. Clinical trials are very often performed by third-party agencies, known as CROs, but all are subject to exactly the same rules and scrutiny from the FDA regardless of who's doing them. The FDA themselves have never been involved in performing any sort of testing.

And now we've got congresscritters on the far right who want to complely deregulate almost everything, including doing away with the FDA

So, the producers are marking their own homework.

Food in Ireland, when we visited, was vastly superior in quality and taste to that of the USA.

I was really happy, and then some muppets voted to leave, and now the shelves are empty, the price tags for food that is there are enormous, and we'll soon abandon actual food standards and go with the american scheme. Booo.

"I don't know why America is butt hurt ... won't buy..." The answer is baked into the question: money 😝

Canadian milk is healthier than that produced in the USA. Artificial hormones to boost milk production are not allowed in Canada. And butter from grass-fed cows is superior to that fro cows on other (less natural) feed.

Or maybe some Americans don't want milk produced with artificial hormones that are illegal in most of the Western world.

Just make sure you don't go to the one on the southwest of Dallas. I've heard it's terrible. I'd be surprised if it's still open. Cheers

Not that store but others

Same here. Used to be one of the best burger places around. Last one I went to was worse than MacDonalds. Go to Shake Shack or In & Out for better burgers.

"given" ;-)

The fries get washed after being cut 3 times.

When the first guillotine is set up in the street they*might* reconsider it.

16.2 billion on black friday in the US

I'm guessing banks, as it's in caps. hint hint

Mostly the corporations that have virtual monopoly control over a product line, like the grain industry.

As long as they continue to profit off COVID, they will continue to use those issues as a way to charge us all more on everything. As consumers we continue to pay, so they continue to raise the price.

And sane Americans are doing nothing.

When labor markets get taut enough that people can demand more money. I'm not opposed to minimum wages since corporations paying low wages but having individual welfare programs attract more workers is also corporate welfare at its worst. But unless you'd otherwise get paid less than a new minimum wage, they aren't going to help you. In the last three years, the U.S. took in more immigrants (9 million) than the populations of Ireland and Croatia combined Or Switzerland, or Austria. Or all of metro London. Ironically, the economic harm done to the nations they leave is even greater. Yes, such immigration increases the GDP of the U.S., but it drastically reduces the PER CAPITA GDP while it makes income distribution so very much worse, putting it in the hands of a few billionaires.

And acid

and spice and everthing nice, I hope

Not really. I bake a lot and cut the sugar by half or less all the time. Still delicious. I do not cut the fat.

Of course. If people want low fat food, they have to put something else into it, to give it some sort of taste.

There are loads of great seasonings, herbs and spices that improve flavor without being unhealthy. Adding masses of salt and butter is the lazy way out.