Made in China- do we care?

[KnottedYet]

Um,...Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia don't even HAVE commercial honey industries, yet they are exporting millions of pounds of honey yearly to the US, labeled as "product of..." their country.

Now THAT'S scary!

I just checked my bottle of honey. It says "Pacific Northwest Clover Honey" and the ingredient is "US Grade A Honey." From Eugene, Oregon. That's 5 hours away, but local enough for me. www.glorybeehoney.com

My last batch of honey was from a different store, and they were having a special on local Washington honey so I bought a big tub.

My Great-Grandpa swore that if you ate a tablespoon of local honey a day you would stay good and healthy. I'm gonna be careful about my honey from now on.

[NbyNW]

The Seattle PI did an excellent feature on the honey laundering problem a couple of years ago:

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/394053_honey30.asp

[Trek420]

Another reason to buy local honey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder

Bees feed the farms, farms feed you, repeat as needed. Yet another good reason to buy local and organic whenever you can, can afford to.

I keep trying to come up with 3 for the 3/50 challenge and it's always food or 1/50 and make it my favorite new/used/independent local bookstore.