Once I learned about the prevalence of high-fructose corn syrup in the foods we eat, and how it makes people fat, I began making even more foods from scratch using sugar or honey. I also like honey in my tea.
Now I find out that some of the honey being sold here in the U.S.A. is actually made in China and then labeled as coming from a different country. Yes, the process really is called honey-laundering, and it’s becoming a real problem.
China is finally getting the negative attention it deserves for allowing all sorts of awful things in the foods it exports (see my recent post on fish), and is responding by sneaking its foods into this country using the subterfuge of mislabeling.
I’m going to have to find a local resource for honey, that’s for sure.
I don’t get this. How can we trust them? I thought they hated Amercians? I don’t have a problem w/trade as long as we like each other and its fair.
thanks for that article! I’m going to find a local source of honey too. We use it quite a bit around here, and the kids love it. I’d hate for anything bad to happen to them! I found a place not far from here that makes their own honey, and their honey is very cheap!
We’re lucky because we have a honey factory in our own home town. Plus, two guys from our church are honey farmers and will sell big pails of honey at low cost.
I don’t like it what China is doing with honey (and so many other things). Buy local, people! 🙂
BarbaraLee, it’s hard to enforce fair trade, as we can’t control other countries.
KM and Janet, you’re doing what I want to do. Right now I buy big bottles of honey from Sam’s Club. They say “Product of USA,” but I’d prefer to buy locally.