Kind of don't give a shit, most commercial honey makers are greedy corporate pricks ......If our long dead relatives didn't make up so much nonsense and spread it everywhere we would be in sweet honey heaven.
Buying honey in a store is a huge problem. If people live a "natural" life and use/take what they need the bees can keep up. When governance of the land, food supply and agriculture in general left the hands of the men and women our sweet future was lost.
Every few hundred people should tend hives....(honey-chain, a decentralized food source ) and they get all the advantages of local made natural goodness. If we can get Asian honey cheaper there is a reason. With the decline of bees here in the states the supply and demand thing is there but we should overcome that and solve the mite problem....without the help of USDA DOA FDA or any three letter BS group. They brought us the Asian beetle and that worked just swell ppffffts!
It's a tough pill to swallow but you farmer fucks out there that are in on it....get off the programs and laydown the true claim to your land!
And raise bees of course!
No idea what that even means, start with "greedy". What do you mean by that? Are you referring to the desire to get a return that you arbitrarily deem too great on one's risk and labor? Throwing around undefined pejoratives is not the same thing as making an argument.
The argument is that there is no "free trade". Farmers including beekeepers are operating on a big business corporate level with il gotten gains......they lobby, they take the handouts/programs and they tend to do what they are told to do with their land. Greed isn't just wanting prosperity it's wanting it and getting it at somebody else's expense. Capitalism is great I'd just like to see it put in practiced for once.