Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Honey Laundering

Honey, due to foreign imports, is one of the most tainted foods in America, and China has a sticky finger in almost every pot. The fix is in, and China has essentially set up a network of honey chop shops to the tune of billions in profit.
Grab the bear bottle of honey off the Walmart shelf and have a look. By appearance, the honey looks golden and wholesome. The beehive the honey came from may contain 60,000 honey bees; and those same bees probably tapped over a million flowers to make it. Odds are the honey is golden and sweet, but about as pure as the bottom of the Chinese barrel it was shipped in.
Honey, due to foreign imports, is one of the most tainted foods in America and China has essentially set up a network of honey chop shops to the tune of billions of profit. Honey couterfeiting is not just under the table business as usual, but relates directly to US food security issues.