Inhabitat posted an amusing story today about honey in northeastern France mysteriously coming out green and blue. Turns out the bees over there have been feasting on waste from a nearby M&M’s factory, thus tinting their sweet byproduct.
Photo credit: Joelk75
And if still images aren’t enough, voici un vidéo. You really get a sense of the magnitude of the issue in motion picture.
This story cracks me up and reminds me of the similar mystery that plagued South Brooklyn a couple years ago, when it turned out our local bees were gorging on waste from a maraschino cherry factory in Red Hook.
Photo credit: Susan Dominus via the New York Times
Gross. Still more gross are the hits one gets when doing an Internet search for “contaminated honey.” More to come.
Tags: Beekeeper, Beekeeping, Bees, France, Honey, M&M's, Maraschino, Urban Farming
everydaytrash 
Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 6:22 pm |
Wow, green and red honey. Maybe that explains the seemingly predominant red leaves this fall in my Vt. community; though I don’t think we have many sweet cherry trees growing here.
However the unusual red leaf with a yellow leaf design (leaf inside a leaf) is likely the hand of nature and not man. http://litterwithastorytotell.blogspot.com/2012/10/vermont-leaf-peeping-leaf-litter.html
Bernie Paquette
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Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 12:15 pm |
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