Everything in the world is just rubbish, except bees. Well, maybe bees are also rubbish, but there is a heck lots of them.

Wow! There is something to learn every day.

The plant kingdom better start learning how to pollinate itself. o.O

Play some Don't Starve if you feel you have too high an opinion of bees. So many restarts...

Seriously though, an unexpected worry that I've recently acquired is whether or not the honey bought in stores is actual honey! There were some reports of rampant honey counterfeiting, especially from China imports but as it turned out, from local bee keepers as well.

I wonder how difficult beekeeping is. Perhaps I should try to make my own, but I don't think my neighbours would like it though :P

God damn it! Now I also have to pay attention to this too? It never occurred to me that a jar of honey, could be anything else. Why aren't supermarkets severally punished for selling fakes. This is fraud!

Is this a similar thing like when you go to a sushi bar and you get "wasabi", it usually isn't wasabi at all, but made out of horseradish instead and some added artificial green coloring (to make it look like real wasabi)? The real wasabi is apparently rather costly. And forget about those green-coated "wasabi nuts", they have never seen any real wasabi. Not sure if they have horseradish paste either, necessarily.

Do I also remember right that guacamole is not always made out of avocado, but sometimes some substitutes are used? Or was it some other ingredient? No idea why though, I didn't think avocado is really that costly.

Here in Finland we also have one local problem:

salmon = lohi
rainbow trout = kirjolohi

Salmon and rainbow trout "meat" kinda seem similar except that salmon is more greasy (and tastier). I have seen cases in the past when a restaurant or a grocery store has been selling rainbow trout as salmon, Sometimes it may even be a honest mistake as some might actually believe a rainbow trout is basically a salmon, due to their "similar" names in the Finnish language.

In fact my wife is like that too. Quite otten she says she bought salmon from the store, but no, she bought rainbow trout. Then she asks "What's the difference?".

Oh! And my pet peeve! At work with have the coffee machine where there is an option for "milk", but it isn't milk at all, but those artificial vegetable trans fatty acids which are also believed to be extra hazardous to your health. In English they are usually referred to as "whitener" and not "milk", so I have no idea why here they are still referred to as milk. That is lying, right at my face!

After all, even here we don't call Hermesetas and such as "sugar", but they are sweeteners ("makeutusaine").

When bees go extinct, man is soon to follow. Bees are intelligent, useful, resourceful and a great source of nutrition (great architects, too, since their hexagon cell formation, makes the best use of a given space, is symmetrical and wise). You can even base a diet off bee-hive products entirely! Honey is a superfood, ever since antiquity and one of the very few types of food, that are complete, in and by itself. Never spoils, either (natural preservative).

Without bees, forget mass production of fruit, vegetables and pretty much, the wide variety of agricultural products. I am particularly concerned, about bees in America. They use to get lost (disappear and abandon their hives), or fall to certain diseases, exclusive to them... Or both. Either way, this is alarming and already, under inspection (from scientists). And don't forget its poison, a very expensive extract and much needed ingredient, in modern medicine.

Bees are solid gold, i tell you! Even their stinging you, can be beneficial for health (natural cure against arthritis, etc).

Some combination of weak standards and the difficulty in checking if honey is pure I guess. Seems there are many different ways to cut corners when making honey :(

No absolutely, I'm not even blaming the people that cut corners, as that is normal human behavior. You do whatever it takes to provide for you and yours. But you'd think that there would be an established authority to check such things don't happen, and to severely punish those that try to break the laws. And that's even before the product gets in stores. I guess I'm getting too old, next step I'll start voting with whatever party that promises higher punishments, for those I happen to believe are committing crimes and getting away with it.

Harsher punishment for those that sell 50% honey + 25% glucose + 25% sugar => 100% honey!!! Am I right? :)

Aside from "fake honey" that is basically tiny amounts of honey mixed with sugar, there's also the problem of beekeepers maximising production by providing their bees with sugar water instead of flowers with nectar, which basically creates a useless and unnutricious honey.

Mine, too. Chocolate milk is chocolate and milk. But almond milk is not almonds and milk. Soy milk is not soy beans and milk. Those are actually almonds and water, and soy beans and water, and lots of other ingredients. In other words, almond juice and soy bean juice, like the way fruit juices are sometimes diluted with water and stuff. Nuts are often thought of as a fruit of sorts, but nuts definitely don't have teats!

I could totally respect their products if they called them juices. But it's seems to me absolutely ridiculous to associate their products with milk when there is no milk in them, and their customers sometimes are allergic and wanting to avoid milk altogether. Name it "I can't believe it's not milk", but don't call it milk.

But why don't you call margarine "margarine"?
And who the hell thought "<something something...> not butter" is a good brand name? It sounds like a slogan.