The Bee Master

Busy bees have figured out a way to ruin honey. Dilute it with something equally sticky.

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Nancy Gentry of Interlachen, owner of the Cross Creek Honey Co. and a member of the state honey technical council, said, "Honey is a magical food from an insect that comes to us pure right from the beginning."

"Unfortunately," she said, "We've had a lot of people decide they want to make more money from the product they got so they cut it (mix it)."

(Yep. I hear you, Nancy. Sort of like mixing a failed businessman with a crafty former CEO of Halliburton and electing both to the White House, with one thinking he's the President while the other guy actually did the job from the shadows.)

But back to honey. As a result of the addition of corn syrup and who knows what else to sweet delectable honey, Florida is the first state in the country to impose a standard on honey. "Under the new regulation, honey containing anything other than "natural food product resulting from the harvest of nectar by honeybees" is considered adulterated or mislabeled." (Read more over at (FloridaEnvironments.com, 7/13/2009)

And here's hoping, an investigation of former VP Dick Cheney and his sticky CIA secrets will set the constitutional standard on executive authority, i.e.checks and balances which ensure that the United States government will never again bee adulterated by a one man bee hive.