Why is honey still cheap?
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With all of the news last year about CCD (Colony Colapse Disorder) - why didn't honey get very expensive? I think I found out why. Here's a clip from an article I found:
The U.S. and Canada imports millions of pounds of honey from China, but the product isn’t necessarily unadulterated honey. As consumers it's informative to learn what goes on behind the scenes.
The global food brokerage firm, S. Kamberg & Company Ltd., warns businesses purchasing imports about products sold as honey. S. Kamberg’s site at (http://skamberg.com/honey.htm) recently reported, “There was not a lot of ‘real honey’ coming into USA from China until last month when the U.S. imported over 4 million lbs. The USA had previously been receiving a lot of packer’s syrup from China (honey blended with other sugar syrups).
It is uncertain if this was actual packer’s syrup, or possibly actual honey sold as packer’s syrup to avoid duties. The probability is high that any actual packer’s syrup entering this country would be blended with and sold as real honey.”
In other words, if you thought you were getting a good deal on honey, it may not have been honey. Just a product cheap enough to undercut the price of local honey.
It looks like we need to be very careful - and buy from local producers!!
