Bee free honey

[Superlativesoul]

Article is about patent secured in Germany for bee free honey ,
You could not make it up
John https://plantbasednews.org/news/economics/melibio-patent-bee-free-honey/

 

[Newbeeneil]

Article is about patent secured in Germany for bee free honey ,
You could not make it up
John https://plantbasednews.org/news/economics/melibio-patent-bee-free-honey/

But surely that’s the point of it. They do make it up!

 

[Erichalfbee]

The patent comes two years after MeliBio netted USD $5.7 million in funding. The company aims to make the honey industry sustainable “by finally giving bees a break.”

That’s like saying you are giving the bees a break by selling jam.

Obviously the regulations are allowing them to call it ……. Honey
It should be called syrup.

 

[ericbeaumont]

The nub of the issue is that MeliBio must develop a strong story to market a novel product to make the return to the fat cats who loaned them $7.2m to develop and bring the sugar to market. By painting beekeeping as cruel the vegan customer - emotively led but factually ignorant - will be enticed easily down the dark alley of salvation. High fives all round!

In a similar way electric vehicles are promoted to the unwise as salvation from ICE emissions, when in fact EV emissions take place far away where they can be ignored and the production, maintenance and disposal of an EV has other significant environmental consequences.

Still, never let facts get in the way of the world of devious capitalist marketing, as MelBio founder Darko Mandich knew when he described how he learned about the “lies” of the honey industry ... “The honey industry narrative was: ‘The more honey you sell, the more bees will get to work. By employing the bees you’re giving them a life.’ That narrative is one of the biggest lies that exists today. Making honey using honey bees is one of the biggest greenwashing that exists today.”

Such skewed misinformation suits MeliBio's agenda but ignores the fact that bees do not have an off-switch and will forage and make honey whether they have 1g or 1 tonne in the larder. Here is Mandich playing the same cheap tune: Mandich explained that MeliBio aims to make the honey industry sustainable “by finally giving bees a break".

Bear in mind that the demonised subject is the American honey industry which at the sharp end has a similar greedy sales imperative to MeliBio: get big, then bigger, and bigger still until you don't know when to stop. In essence, they're all no different from Tesco or BP or Amazon.

More wacky factoids if you plough through that site; here's a sample from Is Honey Vegan?
1 make royal jelly, also called “bee milk”... It’s harvested from the glands of queen honeybees
2 The structure contains horizontal sheets
3 Bees, of course, build hives and carry out their nectar and pollen routines naturally in the wild

As we know, royal jelly is produced by workers, the hive has vertical sheets and bees build nests and do not use saw, wood, hammer and nails, but this is not known to a vegan diehard who would likely reject it as TMI*, and unable to recalibrate their ideas in the light of new facts, stick with this sort of polemical doctrine: honey is “their fuel and their life’s work and rightly belongs to them, not us.”

With that weak ethical argument it won't be long before a zealot argues that carrots are meant to produce carrots and are not for cruel human consumption.

*too much information, darling!

 

[Lolly Bee]

I love the “by finally giving bees a break".
I think we clearly need to show bees how to do Pilates, go to the office, clean the kitchen or maybe they’d just like to watch Great British Bake Off!

 

[The Poot]

“Emotively led and factually ignorant……”

Spot on!

 

[bpmurray]

Obviously the regulations are allowing them to call it ……. Honey.

In fact, the EU regulations explicitly define honey as the product of Apis mellifera (excluding cerana, although that's for another day), and may not contain any additives. As an aside, this also bans those products with added cinnamon, chilis, etc. from calling themselves honey.

 

[Erichalfbee]

In fact, the EU regulations explicitly define honey as the product of Apis mellifera (excluding cerana, although that's for another day), and may not contain any additives. As an aside, this also bans those products with added cinnamon, chilis, etc. from calling themselves honey.

Yet they get away with it

 

[Mint Bee]

General BS. Doesn't fit with honey labelling regulations to be labelled as such (as stated), but TS wont / don't do anything or the vendors misspell so claim its not under the regulation. All we can do is explain the fraud to customers

 

[rolande]

All we can do is explain the fraud to customers

I agree, but sadly lack the people skills to bother...

 

[ericbeaumont]

Looks like it's been in development for at least 3 years: https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/melibio-honey.51925/

Discovered by chance that MeliBio was affected by the collapse of Silicon Valley bank in 2023 as the bank held 90% of the company assets, and here's the c-----y downmarket label design for the final product, called Mellody, Plant-based Honey: https://mellodyfoods.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqsRZvwXlKyOc3h6lbGYihrgVb3AJJY48g9-h2rTrhWYgdiXxmS

 

[Penninetrader]

The nub of the issue is that MeliBio must develop a strong story to market a novel product to make the return to the fat cats who loaned them $7.2m to develop and bring the sugar to market. By painting beekeeping as cruel the vegan customer - emotively led but factually ignorant - will be enticed easily down the dark alley of salvation. High fives all round!

In a similar way electric vehicles are promoted to the unwise as salvation from ICE emissions, when in fact EV emissions take place far away where they can be ignored and the production, maintenance and disposal of an EV has other significant environmental consequences.

Still, never let facts get in the way of the world of devious capitalist marketing, as MelBio founder Darko Mandich knew when he described how he learned about the “lies” of the honey industry ... “The honey industry narrative was: ‘The more honey you sell, the more bees will get to work. By employing the bees you’re giving them a life.’ That narrative is one of the biggest lies that exists today. Making honey using honey bees is one of the biggest greenwashing that exists today.”

Such skewed misinformation suits MeliBio's agenda but ignores the fact that bees do not have an off-switch and will forage and make honey whether they have 1g or 1 tonne in the larder. Here is Mandich playing the same cheap tune: Mandich explained that MeliBio aims to make the honey industry sustainable “by finally giving bees a break".

Bear in mind that the demonised subject is the American honey industry which at the sharp end has a similar greedy sales imperative to MeliBio: get big, then bigger, and bigger still until you don't know when to stop. In essence, they're all no different from Tesco or BP or Amazon.

More wacky factoids if you plough through that site; here's a sample from Is Honey Vegan?
1 make royal jelly, also called “bee milk”... It’s harvested from the glands of queen honeybees
2 The structure contains horizontal sheets
3 Bees, of course, build hives and carry out their nectar and pollen routines naturally in the wild

As we know, royal jelly is produced by workers, the hive has vertical sheets and bees build nests and do not use saw, wood, hammer and nails, but this is not known to a vegan diehard who would likely reject it as TMI*, and unable to recalibrate their ideas in the light of new facts, stick with this sort of polemical doctrine: honey is “their fuel and their life’s work and rightly belongs to them, not us.”

With that weak ethical argument it won't be long before a zealot argues that carrots are meant to produce carrots and are not for cruel human consumption.

*too much information, darling!

Well that was a bit of a ramble, do not construe that as criticism. These types are nutters, plain and simple, the good news is that people in enough numbers are awake to the gigantic fraud being perpetrated on mankind. I use as example the awakening of people to the health dangers of seed oils used in foods and make believe butters. Real butter and whole fat milk sales have seen major increases as a result. The dodgy substitutes are flying in the face of where we humans wish to go. Beekeepers are well respected and have a powerfull voice, maybe we just need to speak a little louder from time to time.

 

[WoodenBeam]

Well that was a bit of a ramble, do not construe that as criticism. These types are nutters, plain and simple, the good news is that people in enough numbers are awake to the gigantic fraud being perpetrated on mankind. I use as example the awakening of people to the health dangers of seed oils used in foods and make believe butters. Real butter and whole fat milk sales have seen major increases as a result. The dodgy substitutes are flying in the face of where we humans wish to go. Beekeepers are well respected and have a powerfull voice, maybe we just need to speak a little louder from time to time.

I’ll also add people are turning away/waking up to the processed food market……..of which this definitely is. Compared to our product which is (or should be) a unadulterated natural product.

 

[rolande]

Beekeepers are well respected and have a powerfull voice, maybe we just need to speak a little louder from time to time.

I wonder if the constant cry about large scale honey adulteration will aid the artificial honey market?

 

[ericbeaumont]

dodgy substitutes are flying in the face of where we humans wish to go

Regrettably, the majority of humans seek the cheapest food with the least inconvenience that requires the least thought.

If that were not so, the giants would not rake in billions.

 

[rossbyjove]

I love the “by finally giving bees a break".
I think we clearly need to show bees how to do Pilates, go to the office, clean the kitchen or maybe they’d just like to watch Great British Bake Off!

ALL my bees work from home.

 

[Moobee]

Article is about patent secured in Germany for bee free honey ,
You could not make it up
John https://plantbasednews.org/news/economics/melibio-patent-bee-free-honey/

My honey is bee free too. Just contains dehydrated nectar!

 

[Moobee]

Well that was a bit of a ramble, do not construe that as criticism. These types are nutters, plain and simple, the good news is that people in enough numbers are awake to the gigantic fraud being perpetrated on mankind. I use as example the awakening of people to the health dangers of seed oils used in foods and make believe butters. Real butter and whole fat milk sales have seen major increases as a result. The dodgy substitutes are flying in the face of where we humans wish to go. Beekeepers are well respected and have a powerfull voice, maybe we just need to speak a little louder from time to time.

As @jenkinsbrynmair says….. if only we had a national body who could do so on our behalf…..

 

[Macbear]

Article is about patent secured in Germany for bee free honey ,
You could not make it up
John https://plantbasednews.org/news/economics/melibio-patent-bee-free-honey/

I know that the weather is a tad like early spring, but I do know that it is not April Fool's day. Having said that, bee-free-honey sounds designed for fools.

 

[Moobee]

The nub of the issue is that MeliBio must develop a strong story to market a novel product to make the return to the fat cats who loaned them $7.2m to develop and bring the sugar to market. By painting beekeeping as cruel the vegan customer - emotively led but factually ignorant - will be enticed easily down the dark alley of salvation. High fives all round!

In a similar way electric vehicles are promoted to the unwise as salvation from ICE emissions, when in fact EV emissions take place far away where they can be ignored and the production, maintenance and disposal of an EV has other significant environmental consequences.

Still, never let facts get in the way of the world of devious capitalist marketing, as MelBio founder Darko Mandich knew when he described how he learned about the “lies” of the honey industry ... “The honey industry narrative was: ‘The more honey you sell, the more bees will get to work. By employing the bees you’re giving them a life.’ That narrative is one of the biggest lies that exists today. Making honey using honey bees is one of the biggest greenwashing that exists today.”

Such skewed misinformation suits MeliBio's agenda but ignores the fact that bees do not have an off-switch and will forage and make honey whether they have 1g or 1 tonne in the larder. Here is Mandich playing the same cheap tune: Mandich explained that MeliBio aims to make the honey industry sustainable “by finally giving bees a break".

Bear in mind that the demonised subject is the American honey industry which at the sharp end has a similar greedy sales imperative to MeliBio: get big, then bigger, and bigger still until you don't know when to stop. In essence, they're all no different from Tesco or BP or Amazon.

More wacky factoids if you plough through that site; here's a sample from Is Honey Vegan?
1 make royal jelly, also called “bee milk”... It’s harvested from the glands of queen honeybees
2 The structure contains horizontal sheets
3 Bees, of course, build hives and carry out their nectar and pollen routines naturally in the wild

As we know, royal jelly is produced by workers, the hive has vertical sheets and bees build nests and do not use saw, wood, hammer and nails, but this is not known to a vegan diehard who would likely reject it as TMI*, and unable to recalibrate their ideas in the light of new facts, stick with this sort of polemical doctrine: honey is “their fuel and their life’s work and rightly belongs to them, not us.”

With that weak ethical argument it won't be long before a zealot argues that carrots are meant to produce carrots and are not for cruel human consumption.

*too much information, darling!

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