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Luv bees and hope your family can continue this important and wholesome hobby, people today have to start supporting home grown, untainted (real) food! Thanks for telling us of your honey!

Thanks for sharing your experience.

What u2 are doing is obviously very important for the buyers, another aspect is the bees showing condition of the environment. Majority of honey sold in eastern and central EU countries is a "mix of honey from EU countries", that normally means something is wrong with it. I got two jars where ~50% of such honey evaporated when stored properly in a closed jar, beside not crystallizing properly and tasting too sweet. Inspections always find fake honey but nothing is done.

OMG, Raspberry honey is my favorite. Having a difficult time finding raw, unpasteurized Raspberry honey here in Maine.

Watching honey bees come and go from their hives calms my soul. I ❤🐝🐝🐝🐝

Of course. Rich gotta rich. 💪😎✌️ Poor gotta serve and suffer.

We paid a lot of taxes and government agencies don't do their work fine. It's disgusting!

Capitalism is organized crime, attack wealth

Buyers need to take some accountability and read the ingredients list. It literally says: artificial truffle flavor.

You don’t read the ingredients it’s on you

Corporations control the government, government controls the judical system.

@@CatgirlExplise6039 and idiots vote

And it is the law makers that allow it in the first place and the Government is fully aware of it all.

Not only the biggest problem but basically IS THE PROBLEM!

they arent in the EU

the other problem is cheap crap sold at the same price (or more) then the original product

Or just buy whole foods, affordable and they have no label. Problem solved

@@wittysass3812 That's not a possibility in a lot of places in the US. A lot of people live in food deserts so when they do their shopping they have to buy ultra-processed foods that won't expire until the next time they can visit the store again.

@@Digital111 most people live within a reasonable distance from a Walmart or similar grocery store, and then on top of that we have this invention called a refrigerator that keeps your food edible for quite some time. It’s complete nonsense what you’re saying.

@@wittysass3812 Did you even read my comment? I was talking about "Food deserts". Not everyone drives or can afford to. Not everyone is privileged enough like you to have a handy store nearby and access to reliable transport to said store... I suggest you read on "Food deserts" and I'll go read on that intriguing "refrigerator" device you just mentioned.

Any powdered "cheese" is merely cheese FOOD. Fake, fake, fake.

Unless if it's actually dried powdered cheese, but if you're buying that, then you know what you're getting. The grated stuff is another beast.

​@@aerialbugsmasherSOYLENT CHEESE

@@omagochgood and important distinction. You can buy real grated pamiggiano reggiano, but it will almost always be either freshly grated or frozen. It won’t be sitting at room temperature on a shelf

Maybe people dont care about cheese as much as you.

I combat this fear buy not outsourcing my control of food preparation to any 3rd party. I make sure to buy the expensive brand of olive oil because I'm allergic to soy and sunflower oils. I figure if it's expensive, it's probably legit. I also buy whole foods and make my own dishes from them.

Same here. The day I found out olive oil could be mixed with soy oil was absolutely horrifying. And knowing now that honey can be mixed with corn syrup- It makes a lot of sense all of a sudden why I'd sometimes get sick after eating honey or using olive oil. Doing research helps... But sometimes, you have no way of knowing.

@@CosmicEternityCDjust make sure you’re getting extra virgin olive oil from one country source, it’s more expensive but it’s honestly the only cooking oil safe to consume anyway. And with honey just get raw unfiltered. It’s more expensive also but taste great and has no additives. It’s literally collected directly from the honeycomb and bottled

Probably from the illegal Nazi mandated vaccines that caused most of your problems. Only in Nazi fascist Corp owned weak divided aMErika of lies. Now mask up and obey slaves. LMFAO Operation Papererclip aMErika ?

liemakers do not care about that part. Only money counts.

Amen!!!!

Pretty much all the seven deadly sins are at play rn and are only getting stronger and worse as time passes but greed has always been the worst and most biggest of the 7. It's the one on top because money consumes everything and is everywhere and yeah. Lust is probably the 2nd worst one cuz people always make everything sexual like movies, tv, games, literature, art, music,and etc. Then I'd say sloth/laziness takes the cake at 3rd place as people nowadays have gotten lazier and have some sort of technology or industrial machine or whatever do something for them or people buy takeout instead of getting it themselves which makes them lazy or how people stop working and don't like to work even when they are at work. All the 7 sins are happening and there's really nothing anyone can do about it except for as individuals try not do give in to most of them. I mean sure us as humans all sin practically everyday even without meaning to as we are only human but it's easy to avoid something's of course we as humans just don't try hard enough which in turn circles back around to sloth/laziness we don't try hard enough cuz we dont want to or were too tired or some other lame excuses. Me myself personally I've never really considered myself to be all that greedy or money hungry I mean sure I'm poor money wise and I NEED money to survive and have been poor my whole life but I've never cared all that much for it as much as WANTs go unlike big corporations, companies, name brands, and the government and stuff. To me it's just not what's important in life and money isn't the only thing greed can apply to it's also just an action of not wanting to share your food or have something all to yourself or wanting large amounts and always wanting more of something and never having enough or being fulfilled or satisfied enough is what greed can be which greed can also co-exist and intermingle with Gluttony because it's also about never having enough never being satisfied/being greedy wanting more which could mean buying random items at stores and always consuming and buying or eating to much food and becoming fat and obese it all boils down to obsession and self control and most evil people don't have that they can never get enough to fill the void. I just don't get all the hassle and interest in being greedy let alone about money and I'll never get it. Or power and control either which government and humans tend to care about as well. People should care about God, love-familial, marriage/partner wise, and friendship and also pets, the earth and taking care of it and stuff and seeing it's beauty, learning lessons and knowledge growing as people and so on. People gotta learn that at the end of the day when they die at whatever age their taken at depending on their fate in life that when they die they can't take all this money or this power and control and possessions with them at the end of it all so they need to learn to drop it and not obsess over it so much. All we can really do is hope that some people see the truth but not everyone will. Also I've never really been all that gluttonous either because i usually eat till I'm full and even if I do enjoy food I never tend to overeat. Although I may be gluttonous in shopping for clothes tho. But I never let these consume me to often but overall the majority of humanity is screwed because we all give into temptations of all these 7 sins even without meaning to.

That contains ONLY peanuts

Cool story bro

The grocery store in the last city I lived in, had a peanut butter grinder in the store. Was great to just take a couple cups of peanuts and making your own peanut butter, and they didn't really charge much more than the peanuts themselves, so it was actually cheaper than getting a classic jar.

What does your family think peanut butter is made from, if not peanuts?

@BarryPiper - read a jar of peanut butter from a major manufacturer. If you are lucky, peanuts will be one of many ingredients.

Pigs are very intelligent. Better than dogs. Pig and truffles reminds me of a good japanese animation called dr stone. It has 3 seasons.

We always knew Arnold Ziffel was intelligent…

Huh really I didn't know that was real I thought that was just something pigs did in like Stardew Valley (a farming videogame btw). Pigs in the game tend to sniff truffles out and lay them out for you when you come back to get them in the game so that's interesting that it's a real thing. So if they have a great sense of smell, can they smell better than a dog or worse? 🤔

Walking a pig just looks ridiculous

I refuse to believe in a God but you are doing God's work with this. Long arse video. 👍

@@JD-hx7ydit kinda has chapters

@@madcornman7012😂😂😂😂

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Yep. It's getting bad, even fake foods are expensive.

petroleum derived ingredients aren't dangerous. theyre only bad when not refined fully (and that does happen so it can still be a risk). it depends on the manufacturer

That sounds delicious with a side of cellulose.

Also nutrition value, I remember some cereal company add iron directly to cheat the nutritional value(not sure if it’s true or not)

@@secondary2nd That's not a bad thing though. Mineral (including iron) deficiency is a very common problem, mainly because people don't care enough to manage their mineral intake. Food fortification (artificially add nutrient to food) is one of the way WHO recommends to combat this problem.

Great. You continue to eat your imitation products.

​@@cjay2Obviously imitation products can be terrible, but I simply don't see the value in something like real beluga caviar. If even experts struggle to tell the difference between real sturgeon eggs and an "inferior" product then why bother paying the enormous premium?

Yap. Same with the vaccine scam enforcement and enormous vaccine injury statistics.

Eating too much is the cause of obesity. Don't be a goddamned pig. Exercise restraint.

Amen!!!!!!!

Please stop making you and loved ones sick. Google the proper human diet.

That and the fact the meat industry puts steroids and growth hormones in all the feed, and that comes right through to the consumer

Doesn’t matter if you use sugar granules it’s not much better

It's really easy to make your own vanilla! You gotta find real vanilla beans but you can find them in specially ingredient shops! Lots of videos on RU-vid in how to make it

@@Cat-ic3df up

@@Cat-ic3dfdoesn’t it take months?

You can harvest eggs without killing fish

wow. (what a deeply stupid lie.) HOW was this "extra concentrated" labelled that she KNEW it "had no fillers"? or that it wasn't "processed or produced in a way that it's natural sugars prevented it from going bad if fridged"? was this in the mail, this "extra concentrated" Dominican vanilla? or was it in person? inquiring minds need to know.

Exactly

Preach......

One thing I have a problem with in ingredients nowadays is if you have a hard time pronouncing the f****** word it should definitely not be in the ingredients list

Worse are the all the fake sugars out there it's lethal to people and promoted as healthy for diabetic people what rubbish, or to lose weight when it does the opposite. What's worse is if all the damn products out there causing the issues we have would stop using corn syrup sugar and instead use actual real sugar.

That's a horrible argument,@@darkenedpsynoid. Nomenclature can quickly become very technical without being dangerous. For example 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-5,7-dihydroxy-3-[(2R,3S,4R,5R)-3,4,5-trihydroxyoxan-2-yl]oxychromen-4-one which is a common polyphenol found in apples.

Wow, that quote’s quite profound. Thanks for sharing.

Huh, i think i get it but it isn't...... Hmm, life changing

why does that hit you hard? are you gonna stop eating food because it limits the amount of problems you have? lmao

@@lewis0705 By seeing your comment i understand that you have a less capable brain as compared to an average human being. If you don't understand what someone said please ask them to repeat it or clarify it, Thanks

@@lewis0705 This is the most stupidest thing someone said to me in weeks. Congratulations

Pretentious people who think they need Fungus oil on French Fries.

@@eduardochavacano sure the video is a little about those pretentious people, but don't miss the main problem, companies being allowed poison people because of "regulations". Capitalism.

If the chinese stopped eating shark fin soup then no one would be cutting the fins off sharks & throwing the live bodies back.

A chemist finds ways to cheaply replicate hydrocarbons and the liberals lose their minds because it’s not “organic”, even though that’s the scientific definition of organic

caveat emptor has been a valid standard even before written history.

They sell them now?

@@LuseGoose nah, we don't farm the land anymore. And my relatives are a bit too old to be wandering the forest looking for fungi. Every now and then some will go hiking and find them but they're not sold off, just eaten.

How about the look on YOUR face when he described wild black truffles so flippantly. Interesting story. You've probably enjoyed some fabulous fungi back on your family's land in the old country.

@@JoelDiNicolol I did get treated to fresh porcini's after a day of hunting near the village of Rogi. They're called varganji there and were made into a thick stew. And yes, dollar signs did disappear before my eyes when I heard only the pigs got to enjoy those 'smelly' black mushrooms!

I am so envious when i see those who seek truffles as an occupation handling a nice-sized black one. I'm glad for you that you had the opportunity to experience hunting them with your family on the old farm. Priceless. @@taniasalu2405

Sad affair wasn't honey imports from China banned because they were exporting 3rd grade honey cut with HFCS into America trying to destroy our domestic honey industry? So the egg heads in D.C. passed a law no imports from china...problem solved right? WRONG...China sells this fake frankin honey all over the Globe to countries who have importation privileges. It's labeled as import from, Brazil, Canada, Eastern Europe, turkey, and people pay top dollar for Chinese dung honey....good job america 😢...support your local beekeeper & gunfighter😉👌

We only buy honey from local bee keepers. These types of videos are so helpful

The prices are so high and the mental effort it takes to read every dang label is so exhausting

I’m annoyed tbh

mafia has absolute control.

@@faithbresciani9425the yuka app helps a bit

they don't even regulate meth anymore - like how am I supposed to know if it is ok to smoke

I buy real maple syrup because I hate the corn syrup masquerading as maple flavored syrup

I bought natural honey from my friend's brother in law who is a small producer. What I remember, the stock is not always available for sale. The aroma, taste and viscosity are not the same for different bottles.

It’s readily available in my neck of the woods. I know of three backyard producers within a 2 mile radius. $20 a quart.

​@@laurac5451I honestly enjoy the fake table syrup, but yeah it tastes very different from real maple syrup. Lots of people I know are in the same boat as you. They love the real stuff and hate the fake stuff.

Bottled Spring water.... thats a firehose tap filling your stuff

I read food label. In the USA food is marked but it is up to you to learn about it and it is not that hard to get yourself better educated on this. But most American just care about the taste and really do not care but to blame other when they body finally say enough.

That's true! I'm still in uni but they taught us that food labels are there and regulated by law to give consumers freedom in making "informed" choice on what they should eat.

my family looks at me the same way. weird to me people are not concerned about what they are eating some stuff is literally created in a lab no reason to eat that crap.

Yeah almost everything has high fructose corn syrup anymore.. people look at me like I'm crazy for spending 10$ on a bottle of legit BBQ sauce.. its always, "I could get 5 bottles of Baby Rays for that price, yuk yuk yuk".. yeah well you can take those 5 bottles of heartburn and dump-em down the drain cause I wont touch the garbage anymore.

What do they taste like? 😯

@@Cellophanesleep it's very difficult to describe their taste, as we usually compare the taste to something else, when describing. If you have ever smelled dried mushrooms which were kept in a paper bag, and then added a bit of garlic, kabanos sausage ( some might not agree with this) and butter , and very savoury tastes, than that will be the very dark truffle I enjoyed when I was little. Sorry to be so hopelessly bad at describing this taste but that was a very long time ago since I had them. But, even if I had them yesterday, it would have been as difficult to describe their taste. Every variety of these mushrooms can taste quite differently I was told by my grandparents. I hope you can have them with your meal one day. 🍄‍🟫

All cheese is processed.

@@herekittykitty9324 hes talking about the ingredients. Some are made of milk some of water and powders and chemicals

@@herekittykitty9324 You think you are being clever but you aren't.

It hugely depends on where you live. I personally live in the Netherlands and cheese is our staple food. Sure we have a lot of cheap cheese and personally I find most of them just bad and plastic-like of texture. I get my cheese from the local farmer or cheese shop and boy oh boy does it taste different once you get your hands on the real stuff. But the fun thing is americans can even commit murder for the cheapest of plastic cheeses. When I go to the states I always bring a few cheeses with me, including the cheap stuff, so once they confessed to commit murder for the cheap stuff I will pull out the aged stuff and the farmer stuff. I usually bring around 1 kilo (2 lbs) with me, but once people realize the quality they do some quick math and consider me rich, bring over 100 dollars worth of cheese while I only paid 15-20 euro in total.

@@Nikki_the_G Are you saying someone has to be clever to know all cheese is processed? Smh.

People want cheap stuff.

Keep people living in poverty so they only buy the cheap imitations :(

Fake cheese is still cheese

I think the bigger issue is the totally unknown health impact of these adulterated products.

@@magdalenam363 victim mindset

I actually have to watch this video for college and then write something about it lol

Colleges can't even figure out what a male or female is. They're doomed.

Colleges do still teach that if it's important to the field your heading into. That's how everything in college works.

​@@captaincake4331 how did this happen

@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman Satan.

It tastes different but I wouldn't write it off as not tasting like sugar. Sugar is perhaps the most prominent ingredient in most people's diet. Either through processed grain breakfast cereal, soda pop, ice cream and an endless list of processed assortments. Literally everything we buy and eat from the grocery store has added sugar. Your taste buds have become accustomed to the taste profile. And while maple syrup do have its distinct taste, it isn't too far from regular sugar when incorporated into recipes. I've taken to using maple syrup in my coffee and you know, it doesn't taste that different from the white powdery stuff. I only notice it on my grocery bill.

Same. Real maple syrup has a very distinct taste that I had never seen in any fake syrup. Also I thought it was common sense to people that most of the syrup in super markets is not real maple syrup

Maple candy is usually real, I think. That creaminess requires no additives--it just happens when you reduce the syrup.. Amazing.

I've had both, and sure I can taste the difference. But who cares? The knockoff stuff is close enough and more importantly is affordable for the average consumer in a way that authentic maple syrup would not be if that became the only available product.

Maple syrup can also vary a lot in taste. Like, golden is very different from dark.

I think the regulations are there. It's just that the FDA doesn't do anything to enforce the regulations, they just take money to look the other way.

Well, that's what happens when so many americans have an irrational fear of "big government", but then let their big government cave to corporations. Propaganda has made americans think that regulations and social welfare = big government when the fact is big government really means giving welfare tax dollars to billionaires. Americans are totally OK with that. In bizzarro land, that = small government.

I believe the cat. There are regulations but it boils down to the enforcement. However, these "fakes" thrive because of the consumers.

I'd vote for this; and for a real food enforcement agency. Hell, they could be LAFE - Label And Food Enforcement.

The ambiguous labeling comes from being required to label. They obfuscate by using catchwords like “natural”-well Poison ivy is natural also, but I wouldn’t put it in my mouth. And anything that says “and other flavors” is hiding something. Add to all that, the size of printing on the labels now make them almost impossible to read!

Im in michigan. We tap 1500 trees every year to make syrup. Its an incredible amount of work even with more efficient equipment. Trying to boil sap in home kitchen pans is rediculously slow. My wife is from the coast of NC. Her parents have a maple tree. Ive wondered for years if it would produce sap.

nice, I have purchased some real maple syrup from canada but will look for vermont now. Its shockingly better, even more so than the difference in real honey and store bought.

​@@T0tenkampf My gf is from Alabama and had only ever had fake syrup before meeting me, which had led her to believe she hated maple syrup. I introduced her to REAL syrup and it has changed her life xD I like Grade A syrup (which is what you'll commonly find in stores) but if you can find Vermont Fancy grade (aka: Golden and Delicate), it's really worth a try!

I wish more states would pass that law.

Outside of the places that produce it, real maple syrup is often prohibitively expensive, and even when we visited northern New York state it was still expensive.

Do you do zelle? I'm stuck in Washington state..lol. Maybe we do some tradezies😂

I’ve never taken an agricultural course but have wondered the same thing…

​@deyaniraletusworktogether Me too, the same way I used to wonder, about Santa Claus.

Agreed. I was looking at getting some cottage cheese. Blew my mind that it had titanium dioxide listed as an ingredient.

Heard "China" a lot

I'm allergic to PEG it's in a ton of things, and the FDA allows for companies to not mention it, if it's under a certain amount.. though even a little bit causes my blood pressure to drop and heart palpitations..

@@rustbeltrobclassic2512 what is PEG?

@@allesasmart Propyl ethylene Glycol, basically antifreeze.. it's used to lower the freezing point of foods in the USA and also in a lot of drugs.. Covid vaccine.. Robitussin, and many, many more.. It's banned in other countries.. but not in the USA

Anorexic people:

Drug addicts

exactly

@@chip4039 exactly

I love how your mind works 😂😂

SURE HE FOUND THE LARGE BEEHIVE🤨,you mean he may have stolen the honey from a bee harvester that places the bee hives in the forest. There are many thieves stealing honey from beekeepers. Sometimes other beekeepers May steal. I’ll give them the benefit of doubt that this person didn’t steal the honey! Just saying!

Not defending fraudsters but when you bottle 100s of thousands of a product. They usually mix different batches together to achieve one base taste. Minute Maid orange juice…. If you look how it’s manufactured it’s both amazing and concerning.

​@marcr1333 how did you get from honey to orange juice? Random much?

Using it as an example of course.

Most honey found in supermarkets contains little, if any, honey. I buy mine from an organic market that buys it from a local farm. Nothing in it but honey.

Yeah you can also get some cut down stuff from them too. Look at Moonshine and how badly it can be from locals. Local does not guarantied to be all that it should be.

I would support my local apiarist who lives across the street from me if he wasn't a total retard lobbying for the protection of invasive Brazilian pepper, which produces mountains of honey that is absolutely disgusting.

Yes choose local. One of India's leading Dietician always recommends eating locally available food on daily basis. Once in a while you can taste global products (which usually needs lots of preservatives & processing).

there is a documentary about that too, you will be surprised what you will see

My farmers market has 3 honey vendors right next to each other lol

You call honey and coffee basic but they have been luxury products for most of their history. If you want something cheaper than honey buy syrups instead.

@tapwater424 I'm talking about today. Coffee and Honey are readily available almost everywhere. Plus if you're going to mention syrups: One of the main compounds of syrup is sugar. Sugar was also a big time luxury product, that only the richest could afford.

@@ShadowClone1989 which is why I wouldn't be shocked if I ordered a sugar barrel for 2 goat skins and a brick in 1782 and it was filled with saw dust.

​@@tapwater424poorer people are the ones working laborious and most times dead end jobs because they aren't afforded certain opportunities in America; these are the people who are more likely to want things like coffee because they get up at 4 a.m. to work the checkout at Walmart for 12 hours or honey for their tea because their sick from stress and overworking but your attitude screams that you don't think poor people should be alloted the opportunity to have those types of products just because they're poor? The FDA should be making stricter laws and cracking down on these things because if they did it would make the healthy and authentic stuff more readily available and thus cheaper and healthier for consumers. It isn't the consumer's fault that they're being tricked and often times forced into buying harmful foods due to their economic status and they deserve the opportunity to have access to foods that aren't made to trick them.

@@hopsymopsy8352 Your logic is flawed. I think if you are low income, you should be seeking out nutricious foods that you can afford. High priced items like extra virgin olive oil, truffles, and caviar should not even be on your radar. As far as "needing" coffee or honey because you work a shit job at Walmart is ridiculous. There are other, more economical products that can be used to maintain health. I don't know anyone at my job (I work one of those shit jobs) who is using honey because they are stressed or overworked. Most of my co-workers PREFER cheap junk food from KFC or McDonald's. Fact is, luxury foods ARE FOR THE RICH. Regular folks have to stick to regular food and just do some research to choose what's most nutricious for their income level.

Smell is subjective

Unpopular opinion: Supermarket extra virgin olive oil isn't that bad. Probably hugely depends on the supermarket though. The supermarkets in my area sell extra virgin olive oil that's actually pretty good. The only olive oil better than this was a special small-batch oil I got from a guy in Greece.

@@geneticallymodified7775 meaning you have never had olive oil from the newly pressed batch in Toscana , as in Montalcino for instance..You have so much to learn and so much joy before you, if you get there before the WEF and WHO ruin all our food, as they have been doing for some years now.

The trouble is, olive oil is sold all over the world, in every town in every store every day of the year. There just are not that many olive trees anywhere. But people can be so easily fooled.

@@Gilvids No its not. Do you like to smell shit?

I would want to believe seeds would be organic!

you never could. victorian bakers would mix in chalk with the flour and the poor obviously didn't question it.

@@aminahussain8690 Well sure, but I mostly meant that we live in a time where we rely on outside sources for ALL of our food needs in today's world and you can't really trust any of them.

@@GruppeSechs yeah agreed. sprechst du Deutsch?

Good luck growing truffles, coffee and wagyu beef 😅

Same here, but I'm from New England of the USA. We too make real maple syrup and it's not hard to find and not that expensive.

Came here to say this. I'm from Maine, and there are more options for real maple syrup in the grocery than fake syrup.

I'm from Saskatchewan, and while I don't think it's hard to find fake syrup here in the grocery stores, I didn't have any until I was like forty (well, unless I had it as a kid, and just can't rember), and, blech, is it ever gross. It doesn't taste right at all. I don't know, maybe real syrup is more common here in SK than in places like the US, even though it's not like SK is some big maple-syrup-making province.

Yup agree. I went to Quebec the first time in 2016 and had maple syrup there and was like “oh wow, that’s different”… I even came back with a can of it haha

Artificially flavoured corn syrup. Delish.

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I noticed last decade labels show no nutrients anymore. Cereal, green beans, nada. Why??

It's not amazing to me because our government banks on our illnesses and REAL FOOD doesn't need a label we just don't like real food

Have you ever left your house before???????

In the European Union we have laws against that, so with a little knowledge of french history, maybe you could too^^

Exactly like these people in the video can afford the real stuff but a mother and a father with three kids or single parents etc struggling to make ends meet is not going break their paycheck on a real bottle of olive oil or real honey or high quality real syrup. I've been eating Mrs Butterworth or Log cabin or even the generic syrup from supermarket ever since I've been alive and that's fine with me.

And they are not getting paid enough to make the real stuff. They want to get wealthy by producing fake stuff. They can't buy yachts and send children to Harvard by making honest products. So, if you want the real thing is up to you to step your game up, spend countless currency on a higher education. Get a higher paying job so that every producer can live lavishly.

Youre just missing the point of the video. The point isnt that there shouldn’t be cheap alternatives it’s that they shouldn’t try to trick people through labels. Some of these fakes werent even cheaper 💀

@@sergiomercado4859 I mean one of the main conclusions of the video is saying to just buy more expensive products because they're more likely to be real; the example of some fakes being expensive is a non issue because it's not even close to the majority of fake products at all. That sounds pretty backwards when pay hasn't increased at all in recent decades while prices keep skyrocketing... The point of what individual consumers can do is still exactly the same, poor people will continue to buy cheaper things because it's all they can afford, whether it's fake or not. Richer people will buy up, fake or not. No individual person can do anything about phony labels and false advertising, that's up to legislation. Nobody said anything about cheap alternatives not existing anymore, it's that there would be no need for them to exist if your average person got paid a livable wage. I'd wager that most people aren't technically being deceived at all, they know exactly what they are buying is fake crap but it's literally all they can afford. Nobody goes buying cheap top-ramen thinking it's giving them an authentic ramen experience.

@@sergiomercado4859 the lady discussing honey really seemed to be pushing hard for "pay more for honey or we'll go out of business" because lets face it, buying honey at the farmers market is not "affordable" by most families. The cheap squeeze bottle at walmart from China is though. The beekeepers need to streamline their process or just deal with the fact that some consumers are just fine with low quality honey. I personally don't see much of a difference.

Her thing at the very end about putting the fake honey on your hair and face... I could maybe see real honey being good for that, but it seems like the fake stuff wouldn't be beneficial, beauty-wise.

Very well said

SPICES! Oh my God it drives me nuts when I turn around a spice container and 97% of it is filler like sawdust!

Also, I’ve heard that there’s legitimately no such thing as avocado oil seeing as how avocado seeds don’t grind down to make oil

@@kateapple1 I believe that too and if there's any real extraction happening is from the very hard and green fruit which it means is fully loaded with chemicals produced by the plant to protect its baby - the avocado- and repell animals to eat so the benefits to humans sounds to me a hard thing to believe

@@kateapple1 It is a real thing though, avocado oil is extracted from its pulp and not from its seeds (as you said correctly).

The olive oil con is actually a huge revenue stream for the Italian mafia too. It's genuinely wild

@@dismurrart6648Fake olive oil has been going on for centuries with the Mafia taking the lead. Even I already knew about that. While not technically "fake," the quality of all olive oil is inversely proportional to the amount of shelf space in the grocery stores.

Doesn't real parmesan also have the Italian seal/stamp on it's packaging?

The fake oils are kinda disturbing mainly because of how bad food sensitivities can be. My digestion is wrecked I can't do soy, corn, canola oils but olive oil is good except I fear the fakes. Which is why I wont budge on getting the pricy oils from an authentic brand to be sure its real.

​@Sloth-ru5vm Thats disgusting

They don't NEED to say that criminal food production is done by criminals, do they?

@josephreinhart8712 why joseph... just... why...? Is life so horrible you can't enjoy the artistry, everything has to be through the lens of "activism." That's a terrible existence... who hurt you??? Tell me who hurt you! I'll make'um pay!!!

@@krypton1982 I am sorry. I identify as a married person, so you and me? It isn't going to work. I don't want another terrible experience, so I am just going to pass of your emotional invitation.

@josephreinhart8712 "...Strangers in the night exchanging glances Wondering in the night..."

@@krypton1982 ...as he asks, "Why!? Why do you insist that criminals perp crimes!? Why!?" Dude. Because they are criminals. Butt pirates, reading books in kindergarten, are still butt pirates. The butts are just...smaller and taste more like chicken.

Me too!😂

I‘m German and I’m always thankful for the EU‘s relatively strict rules for food. And the opportunity to import products from the countries of origin without paying unbelievable amounts. I always buy olive oil from a family in Italy and balsamic from another family in Modena. Honey is available from a lot of beekeepers locally here as well, sometimes it‘s just not the season and you have to wait a bit. Which is ok. A lot of Americans don’t even know what the real food is and have never had it in their entire life.

Couldn't agree more! ❤️🇪🇺🇨🇿

The real issue is population and television/internet. We all want food and we all see and get recipes and there is no way to get the entire world with the real quality food, especially the rare stuff like parmesean cheese, truffles, olive oils, maple syrup, caviar, etc....

@@BoydofZINJ I don’t think this is the main issue. We have Parmesan in Europe with the label D.O.P in supermarkets available. Same goes for balsamic, honey etc. It‘s also possible to get these foods in Japan or Korea. The reason why the real foods are not available in the US is pure corporate greed and the relatively low value of food in America‘s mentality.

​@@BoydofZINJ Well ok, maybe they overranked (forgot the right word), but if anyone wants to taste these foods but can't find the real ones cheap, maybe we all should make fakes safe for those people and probably themselves?

The Germans, I understand ,put a tax on any processed coffee imported into Germany. By processed, I mean, for example, roasted beans. So just imagine the impact - discouraging beneficiation in poor growing countries.

@@phillipsugwas I’m not entirely sure of every aspect of these coffee plantations, I know the beans are bagged after being sun dried (I don’t know if this is considered processed or not) but I am certain the dried beans are not roasted beans when leaving their country of origin. The process is more involved than many realize. Almost immediately after being roasted the beans need to go into an airtight sealed bag with a plastic valve for relief gases to escape (coffee beans actually release gasses for a short time after roasting) but if you let oxygen get back into the bag the beans will oxidize and go stale fairly quickly. All the machines involved are very expensive and maintenance intensive. Roasters, bag constructor, bagging machine, packaging machine, conveyer belts, ect. So usually coffee beans are roasted when they arrive at whatever region that has this equipment. (Last time I checked) There are 5 plants in the U.S. I think 3 dotted around Europe, and 1 in china. From there it’s distributed to consumers. So realistically Germany isn’t hurting the poorer countries by imposing the import tax, but a wealthier nation that already paid the plantation owners. (Not saying the workers at these plantations are paid very well because they probably are not. Although in the case of Starbucks they do try to work with plantation owners to pay their workers higher wages. In the end the plantation owners still don’t pay that well cause the owners tend to pocket a decent amount of the cash Starbucks gives them… not to mention Starbucks itself makes huge profit off the raw beans they receive. The economics are complicated but the field workers are the ones that are really screwed in the end… Starbucks itself though pays its workers amazing wages with plenty of benefits.

Not any more. Starbucks is the worst for moldy beans.

Why do they produce the worst tasting coffee & most off putting blends if they’re so ahead?

could all very well be but I still refuse to pay their insane prices for a cup of coffee.

Stays fresh much longer when it’s in bean form too.

a lot of conveyor asbestos so shake in the wind

But the bear is so cute!

@@Sashazur nah, that bear wants you to die from diabetes. That bear isn’t environmentally friendly at all unlike the natural ones either.

What even is clover extract? okay I googled it but it still baffles me

As a beekeeper I can tell you that freshly harvested honey will have no crystals. Crystallization won't start until about 8 months later. Plus store bought honey that has been pasteurized is just not worth paying for even if it is pure honey because all the health benefits have been destroyed. For the couple bucks more (I sell 1 lb of honey for $10) go to your local beekeeper. I don't make money from selling honey if you offset it with my costs, I keep bees because I love the hobby. And the bees!

@@chuckt7636 May God bless you, sir.

Real wasabi is super expensive isn’t it?

Considering the real one coming from a stem of a plant that required 18 months to fully growth and some specific conditions of its place of planting, the 'real' one is rare and expensive for sure

They did say that only 1 percent of Wasabi is real Wasabi. So ya.... My take is if its that rare then its not for everyone and its ok to have something REAL thats more readily available

Is this really important? I think the world will survive without these ridiculous expensive items and ingredients, truffles, waggle beef caviar etc. etc.

​@@keithburton3713 it's not, for most of us, but, you know there's always idiots in this world

Fines should be paid as shares of revenue so that it hurts so much that fraud becomes extremely unprofitable

It's all about the money.

ya, paid the government not to inspect their business

this is legitimately what one of the January 6 people said

Cool- but maybe try consuming things that are less faked, less processed, and slightly more healthy.

@@SPQR7117 Give me the money to buy that expensive crap your preachy arse is telling people to try. A lot of the fakes are pretty cheap which is part of the allure. People do things on a budget for a reason. I got a cashapp if you're willing, O wise one. LOL

But if our foods lack nutritional value, no wonder we might get sick, all empty calories

​@@SPQR7117---Spot on, We might get sick if our foods lack Nutrional value

@@SPQR7117 I don't really think imitation vanilla is gonna be any more or less healthy than real vanilla extract. u only add a few drops anyways

It is. Why do you think a significant portion of our country is obese? Actually fresh, organic, and healthy food is expensive for many Americans too.

100 years ago companies could get away with having animal feces in meat products and most bread was mixed with sawdust. Things are aren’t perfect now sure, but for the most part we regulate the market from the worst elements

​@@masond7573as a usda employee that works in farm country, "organic" is mostly a marketing ploy, and it is usually terrible for soil erosion because they have to till heavily to keep weeds down.

The funny thing is, American consumers are more likely to freak out over things that actually don't matter in food than to care about the things that do. For example freaking out over something being "organic" when it has no measurable affect on health or taste, but they still go for the "organic" processed food when they would have been better off going for the normal fresh fruits and veggies.

Those in control of the medical industry is also in control of our food. In the US they want us sick, obese, and diseased so they make money from birth to death.

I agree! I need part 2 of this topic! ❣ very educating and not mind numbing!

If the chemical tastes good and doesn't kill you, then why not eat it. Most things are chemicals anyway.

Thank you for this. I'm coming to this video right after the truffle video that Ethan Chlebowski did, and he made the point that black summer truffles are used alongside artificial white truffle flavoring. It isn't fake, it's imitation. Glad other people are well informed.