Beekeepers buzz to Brussels

mkpdavies · 04-02-2005, 10:07 AM

http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmu...2-16&type=News

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Groups of Hungarian honey producers and exporters have been taking turns to demonstrate in front of the Council building to demand changes to the EU's honey directive

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The demonstrators claim that while in the EU the entire process of production, packaging and marketing is carefully monitored, this is not the case in other countries, such as China, where last-minute 'quality improvements' are often made, for instance, to extract antibiotics. They also claim that due to the CAP system, honey producers in the EU pay three times the price for the sugar they give to bees during winter than producers in China and Argentina.

Mad world.

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