Fake honey is everywhere. Join us in standardizing tests to ensure your honey is real.
Adulterated honey is lining your supermarket shelves and killing the beekeeping industry. We need to standardize honey validity with foolproof tests at every port of entry. Other countries are doing it - now it's our turn.
Don't believe it? From 2007 to 2013 alone, countries in the Oriental hemisphere - namely China - have experienced an explosion of 196% in their honey exports, yet their hive count has only increased by 13%. This dumping of adulterated honey into the global marketplace is depressing the price of honey and putting honest beekeepers out of business. Not only is China diluting honey with cheap sugar syrups, they're also filling their jars with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals such as lead.
To make matters worse, China is rebranding their adulterated honey and using other countries as a 'jump-off' point to avoid detection. Same adulterated honey, different 'country of origin'. Right now, over half the honey on your supermarket shelves is adulterated.
If that wasn't enough, this illegal practice is causing the price of honey to plummet and is putting beekeepers out of business. This in turn reduces the amount of pollinators left in the world. Did you know that bees pollinate 30% of the food you eat? Almonds, blueberries, strawberries, apples, broccoli, cucumbers - just to name a few. They're also the key pollinators of alfalfa and clover, the primary feeds used in the cattle industry. If beekeepers continue to go belly up due to the influx of cheap, adulterated honey, it's only a matter of time before the price of fruits, vegetables, dairy, and cattle reach never before seen heights.
It's time to enact policies that protect the American people. Today, we have the technology to detect adulterated honey in all its forms. The problem is, we barely test the honey we import (24 containers out of thousands annually, according to the FDA). We need to be testing ALL honey at every port of entry.
Join us in protecting our honey, our beekeepers, and our food security by signing this petition to standardize honey testing at every port of entry.
Thank you!
Healthy Bees, LLC - Makers of all-natural nutrition for honey bees.
Updates
February 9, 2020
I just saw the number hit five hundred and honestly I am stunned because I was just staring at my own jar of honey thinking about those heavy metals and wondering if anyone else actually cared. It is wild to think about five hundred people all looking at their breakfast and realizing the whole system is broken but here we are.
Reached 500 supporters
February 8, 2020
December 20, 2019
I spent all morning reading through the messages you are leaving here and it is just wild how many of you have noticed the weird consistency of the honey sitting in your own cupboards lately. People think they are buying pure nectar but it feels like we are all just eating expensive syrup while the actual beekeepers I talk to are struggling to keep their hives alive.
Reached 100 supporters
October 25, 2019
153 Comments
My dad is a bee keeper and the more I learn about adulterated honey the sadder I become. Please fight to keep real honey on the shelves!
This practice hurts all Bee Keepers in the United States. The Dumping of cheap adulterated Honey on to the market is driving down the price of Prime U. S. Honey and decimating the Bee keeping industry in the United States. There are NO price protections for Honey. Bee Keepers are suffering, and the public is suffering. Eat Local Honey from U S Producers!
Stop selling fake food. Out family does not rely on pills/ prescription...we try to only eat Whole Foods and we use nutrition to maintain our health. It is every American's right to know WHAT they are buying at the grocery store... thus labeling is significant. It is also right and Justice to know that when we purchase Food...that it is real and not fake.
I am a beekeeper and we put thousands of dollars into building our hives and maintaining our bees to help the pollination crisis. Help us to recoup some of those dollars by stabilizing honey prices and not allowing adulterated honey to enter the US.
low prices and charlatans have been stealing our market share. Honey labeled as "organic" is also a problem. I have even seen certified organic honey from California that there is no way meets USDA requirements to be organic, to say nothing about Brazil and other countries that seem to claim that everything from them is organic.
Please also reduce honey imports. It is harming our prices for local beekeepers in the U.S.
TEST THE HONEY! PROTECT THE BEES!
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Fake honey is everywhere. Join us in standardizing tests to ensure your honey is real.
Adulterated honey is lining your supermarket shelves and killing the beekeeping industry. We need to standardize honey validity with foolproof tests at every port of entry. Other countries are doing it - now it's our turn.
Don't believe it? From 2007 to 2013 alone, countries in the Oriental hemisphere - namely China - have experienced an explosion of 196% in their honey exports, yet their hive count has only increased by 13%. This dumping of adulterated honey into the global marketplace is depressing the price of honey and putting honest beekeepers out of business. Not only is China diluting honey with cheap sugar syrups, they're also filling their jars with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals such as lead.
To make matters worse, China is rebranding their adulterated honey and using other countries as a 'jump-off' point to avoid detection. Same adulterated honey, different 'country of origin'. Right now, over half the honey on your supermarket shelves is adulterated.
If that wasn't enough, this illegal practice is causing the price of honey to plummet and is putting beekeepers out of business. This in turn reduces the amount of pollinators left in the world. Did you know that bees pollinate 30% of the food you eat? Almonds, blueberries, strawberries, apples, broccoli, cucumbers - just to name a few. They're also the key pollinators of alfalfa and clover, the primary feeds used in the cattle industry. If beekeepers continue to go belly up due to the influx of cheap, adulterated honey, it's only a matter of time before the price of fruits, vegetables, dairy, and cattle reach never before seen heights.
It's time to enact policies that protect the American people. Today, we have the technology to detect adulterated honey in all its forms. The problem is, we barely test the honey we import (24 containers out of thousands annually, according to the FDA). We need to be testing ALL honey at every port of entry.
Join us in protecting our honey, our beekeepers, and our food security by signing this petition to standardize honey testing at every port of entry.
Thank you!
Healthy Bees, LLC - Makers of all-natural nutrition for honey bees.
Updates
February 9, 2020
I just saw the number hit five hundred and honestly I am stunned because I was just staring at my own jar of honey thinking about those heavy metals and wondering if anyone else actually cared. It is wild to think about five hundred people all looking at their breakfast and realizing the whole system is broken but here we are.
Reached 500 supporters
February 8, 2020
December 20, 2019
I spent all morning reading through the messages you are leaving here and it is just wild how many of you have noticed the weird consistency of the honey sitting in your own cupboards lately. People think they are buying pure nectar but it feels like we are all just eating expensive syrup while the actual beekeepers I talk to are struggling to keep their hives alive.
Reached 100 supporters
October 25, 2019
153 Comments
All honey needs the exact location of where the hives are kept and honey was extracted. Do not allow foreign honey to be extracted on a ship in a US port and be labeled as made in USA, like the mushroom industry allows.
My dad is a bee keeper and the more I learn about adulterated honey the sadder I become. Please fight to keep real honey on the shelves!
This practice hurts all Bee Keepers in the United States. The Dumping of cheap adulterated Honey on to the market is driving down the price of Prime U. S. Honey and decimating the Bee keeping industry in the United States. There are NO price protections for Honey. Bee Keepers are suffering, and the public is suffering. Eat Local Honey from U S Producers!
Stop selling fake food. Out family does not rely on pills/ prescription...we try to only eat Whole Foods and we use nutrition to maintain our health. It is every American's right to know WHAT they are buying at the grocery store... thus labeling is significant. It is also right and Justice to know that when we purchase Food...that it is real and not fake.
I am a beekeeper and we put thousands of dollars into building our hives and maintaining our bees to help the pollination crisis. Help us to recoup some of those dollars by stabilizing honey prices and not allowing adulterated honey to enter the US.
low prices and charlatans have been stealing our market share. Honey labeled as "organic" is also a problem. I have even seen certified organic honey from California that there is no way meets USDA requirements to be organic, to say nothing about Brazil and other countries that seem to claim that everything from them is organic.
Please also reduce honey imports. It is harming our prices for local beekeepers in the U.S.
TEST THE HONEY! PROTECT THE BEES!
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All honey needs the exact location of where the hives are kept and honey was extracted. Do not allow foreign honey to be extracted on a ship in a US port and be labeled as made in USA, like the mushroom industry allows.