Seems there is a traceability problem with imported honey. Chinese honey has some sourcing/quality issues, and here an article outlines the facts.
The original delusion was that a govt agency could keep us safe. What makes that delusional is there is not way to replace the vigilance of 350 million Americans with several thousands clerks.
The legal fiction is the importer is the manufacturer. Who cares what the "honey laundering" process is, the importer is responsible. But with people believing the FDA assures quality, scam artists have entered the field to prey on a market whose natural defenses have atrophied for delusional dependence of state intervention.
Get rid of the FDA. Then if anyone suspects bogus honey, let him initiate an private attorney general and prosecute the malefactor. The FDA can be captured by the bad guys, but try placating a competitor who is losing sales to a scam artists bad honey. Let the competitors in the honey business bring the weight of the law down on the malefactors.
The tainted honey is far more of a problem for Chinese than for us. Export USA honey to China, traceable. So this mean an opportunity to export good honey to China. JV with Chinese honey producers to show them state of the art. Money to be made there.
A simple fact is the USA economy is built on an unsustainable model we call capitalism. Free markets can deliver what is necessary and sufficient if we allow them. So when the USA system comes down, know that there are plenty of better ways available, within our own history, presently available to deal with problems.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
In 2001, Chinese beekeepers experienced an epidemic of the foulbrood disease that ransacked their hives. They fought off the disease with strong animal antibiotics, including chloramphenicol — a carcinogenic antibiotic that’s been banned by the FDA. As recently as 2010, the FDA confiscated $32,000 worth of imported Chinese honey that was contaminated with this drug.I sincerely doubt that 5% figure, I suspect it is less than 1%. But either way, there is a solution. And a business opportunity.
And, get this! The FDA only tests about 5% of imported honey. So who knows how much more of this tainted honey is being smuggled into the U.S.?
The original delusion was that a govt agency could keep us safe. What makes that delusional is there is not way to replace the vigilance of 350 million Americans with several thousands clerks.
The legal fiction is the importer is the manufacturer. Who cares what the "honey laundering" process is, the importer is responsible. But with people believing the FDA assures quality, scam artists have entered the field to prey on a market whose natural defenses have atrophied for delusional dependence of state intervention.
Get rid of the FDA. Then if anyone suspects bogus honey, let him initiate an private attorney general and prosecute the malefactor. The FDA can be captured by the bad guys, but try placating a competitor who is losing sales to a scam artists bad honey. Let the competitors in the honey business bring the weight of the law down on the malefactors.
The tainted honey is far more of a problem for Chinese than for us. Export USA honey to China, traceable. So this mean an opportunity to export good honey to China. JV with Chinese honey producers to show them state of the art. Money to be made there.
A simple fact is the USA economy is built on an unsustainable model we call capitalism. Free markets can deliver what is necessary and sufficient if we allow them. So when the USA system comes down, know that there are plenty of better ways available, within our own history, presently available to deal with problems.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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