We shouldn't eat honey!

This is too absolute and alarmist. Why don't we plant more flowers / flowering trees and shrubs? And herbs like thyme, borage, lavender, clover and wild fennel? The most effective actions are simple, cheap, and science-backed. If you want the biggest impact with minimal effort:
Plant native flowering plants;
Don’t use pesticides;
Let part of your space grow naturally... do not remove dandelions etc.

I will stop eating honey when google stops consuming massive amounts of energy.

When my grandchildren were babies/ young they weren’t allowed to have honey. I was never sure why.

Oh and stop cutting down trees to accomodate huge data centres. Planting trees is the solution to climate change.

suelld

And if imported from New Zealand where the country is fast and the bees not particularly endangered?

Unfortunately New Zealand bee populations are endangered due to several factors, one being the Varroa mite which has almost completely eliminated feral bees. Honeybees are almost entirely dependent on bee keepers.
I haven't seen much New Zealand honey on the shelves in the UK for some time.

It's not a vast country, although it is far less densely populated than the UK. People are being encouraged to plant more pet-friendly flowers.

Not part friendly!!

Bee-friendly

silverlining48

When my grandchildren were babies/ young they weren’t allowed to have honey. I was never sure why.

You're not supposed to give honey to babies under the age of one because there is a risk of infant botulism.

Autocorrect is going berserk today.

(It just changed berserk to Western 😀)

Ah, thanks VV. I am sure I knew that once upon a long time ago.

Maremia

Honey has been consumed by humans for millennia.

But we haven't been using pesticides that kill bees for millennia.

yeah but now there are far too many humans.....

I don’t eat it because after allergy tests on the skin it was found, surprisingly, I am allergic to honey. It is so rare it cannot be tested through the blood, as such a test does not exist.

What is causing the problem in the South East, is the decimation of the hedgerows by massive housing developments. I guess that is not a problem in China.

I grow a garden full of snowdrops and crocus to help the early bees. Although we have local hives, mine and white bottomed bumble bees. Last year, they were out before many of the flowers, so I put tepid sugar water out - yes not great but it does keep them alive. They love my daffodils too and will come back for the bluebells, even though by then only the young are not too fat to get in, but I have other flowers for them. Now the honey bees are all over the plum and apple blossom, but I will not see them until next year.

I have honey bees on the flowers all year round, but the thing they love most is the cordyline flowers (those huge, rather ugly cream sprays).

I don't know where they come from but would think they are hive bees rather than wild bees.

Thank goodness for my neighbour with a small holding. She gifts me honey at Christmas etc. I think it’s because I have to listen to their very noisy cockerel day and night !
My garden is also very popular with the bees 🐝

if god had not wanted us to eat honey he would not have given us bees

I'm presuming buying from local bee keepers is ok? I don't really like the taste of honey in its own but I do use it in breadmaking and cooking.

I have it every day, I buy it from a local producer in a glass jar, not a plastic squeezy bottle from a supermarket

I am allergic to 🍯 honey , it brings me out in hives. 🤣
Couldn’t resist.
I am allergic to bees and honey though.

ViceVersa

silverlining48

When my grandchildren were babies/ young they weren’t allowed to have honey. I was never sure why.

You're not supposed to give honey to babies under the age of one because there is a risk of infant botulism.

When my DD was a baby my MiL, who is a big fan of honey, scooped some honey on her finger and was about to stick it in her mouth! She didn't even ask me if it was ok and I only just got her away in time. We had been told not to give young babies honey and at the time she was being exclusively breastfed! MiL always thought she knew best!

I only buy Manuka honey and use it if I get a sore throat. Otherwise I'm not fond of honey and certainly don't buy it as a regular food - just for medicinal purposes.

We mustn't eat honey, or meat, or eggs, etc etc etc
We must subsist on lab-grown stuff from the likes of Bill Gates
Get local honey and forget the nonsense.

Where has anyone said we must eat lab grown stuff?
Most on here have said avoid over processed supermarket food.
Without care for the environment you won’t have bees.

I know someone who suffered a lot from hay fever, until it was recommended that he eat locally-produced honey, and it cured him.

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/insight/british-honey-found-tainted-with-potent-drugs/gm-GM540D8C87?gemSnapshotKey=GM540D8C87-snapshot-1&uxmode=ruby