http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/09/honey-was-the-wonder-food-that-fueled-human-evolution-and-now-its-disappearing/ Keeping You Current Tue, 21 May 2013 19:55:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/09/honey-was-the-wonder-food-that-fueled-human-evolution-and-now-its-disappearing/comment-page-1/#comment-997 Mark Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:07:47 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=4497#comment-997 You misread Ron Phipps statement in his International Honey Market Report for the American Honey Producers Association of January 5, 2012 (cited in the last line of your article). He does NOT indicate that CCD on 2011's poor honey crop. He states that "Global honey production in 2011 was most likely reduced due to an unprecedented year of natural disasters alternating between floods and drought, cold and untimely rains." You misread Ron Phipps statement in his International Honey Market Report for the American Honey Producers Association of
January 5, 2012 (cited in the last line of your article). He does NOT indicate that CCD on 2011′s poor honey crop. He states that “Global honey production in 2011 was most likely reduced due to an unprecedented year of natural disasters alternating between floods and drought, cold and untimely rains.”

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