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French Bees Produce Blue Honey After Eating M&M Waste
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Carrie
- 224 days ago - geekologie.com
French beekeepers in the town Ribeauville noticed their bees started producing blue, green and red honey this summer and they couldn't figure out why. Turns out it was bee-cause the lil stingers were eating the waste from an M&M factory.
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'Honey Laundering' An International Scandal | MNN - Mother Nature Network
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Tamara
- 51 days ago - mnn.com
There might be something funny in your honey. Food-safety experts have found that much of the honey sold in the United States isn't actually honey, but a concoction of corn or rice syrup, malt sweeteners or "jiggery" (cheap, unrefined sugar), plus a sma
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