Thread: Beekeeping

I find any attempt to hide the source of food or the nature of its production to be criminal. Its nothing new. Wine makers and oil producers have played games with their products for a long time. I try not to buy anything edible out of China. God only knows what is in most processed foods. What scares me the most is letting my wife do the shopping. The cheapest stuff on the shelf is going to end up in the cart never mind what it is or where it came from.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

I just got this in. Is there ANYTHING THAT CHINA WON'T CHEAT AT??????????????? Well them and their 'Partners'??????????????

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Nope - the will cheat at whatever they can get away with. And since so many companies are beholden to them to make their products they get away with anything they want.

The US put a high tariff on Chinese honey because they were dumping it on the market. Now the largest producer of honey in the world is Vietnam - strange that a small country like that - located where they are - suddenly became the biggest producer in the world....

The Chinese cut it with sugar water and then high pressure filter the honey to remove pollen. If you were to take a bottle of my honey they can pinpoint on the map where it came from based on the plant pollen. High pressure filtering removes that evidence so it can come from anywhere.

That is why beekeepers say - buy local. The sad truth though is the big food producers in this country buy imported honey knowing full well they are likely getting Chinese honey but it is "coming" from Vietnam and the price is right.

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I've been hearing a lot of this lately. Thankfully, there's a local place the puts out some amazing honey and they sell it at a local grocery store. They claim it is "raw"? still dunno what that means...

Originally Posted by dinnermint

I've been hearing a lot of this lately. Thankfully, there's a local place the puts out some amazing honey and they sell it at a local grocery store. They claim it is "raw"? still dunno what that means...

Raw means that it hasn't been processed. The most I filter mine was with two metal mesh gravity flow filters. When extracting you get bits of wax and sometimes the bees will put pollen in some cells and that pops out as a big pellet. Pollen grains still easily pass through my filter - just the big chunks get filtered out. If you high pressure filter it isn't raw so raw is good! Thanks for supporting the local guy! Besides eating local honey is thought to help with allergies to the local plants - so even better.

Dang, international honey seems to be a sneaky business.
I just went to the cupboard and ate a spoonfull of raw honey. From my state, of course.

Originally Posted by Cincinnatus

Raw means that it hasn't been processed. The most I filter mine was with two metal mesh gravity flow filters. When extracting you get bits of wax and sometimes the bees will put pollen in some cells and that pops out as a big pellet. Pollen grains still easily pass through my filter - just the big chunks get filtered out. If you high pressure filter it isn't raw so raw is good! Thanks for supporting the local guy! Besides eating local honey is thought to help with allergies to the local plants - so even better.

They probably filter it a little bit, no chunks or anything. It looks pretty flawless. The lid does have some brown stuff stuck to it...

My morning phlegm has reduced drastically since I started eating it....

Most beekeepers have to filter a little to keep chunks out but the overall they don't take the pollen out.

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I am getting tired of waiting to get some honey from my hives. This weekend I am going to grab at least a few frames! Last week there was a couple of frames of comb honey that were 3/4 capped......

Those poor Bee's will have to start all over again,, boy will they be pi$$ed.

They won't have to start all over. 5 to 10 percent maybe.....