Comment on stupid sexy apples

9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Some of us have allergies to specific pollinators. I can’t have some honey without a scratchy throat.

  Love bees! Can’t have what they make :((

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You might have a superpower.

    A LOT of honey in grocery stores are actually syrup but due to capitalism, there really is no real way to tell for sure.

    If you are allergic, but won’t die, from having honey, you might be able to make a guide for those of us that actually want real honey but have trouble trusting asshole companies.

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    • Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m lazy. Pass.

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      • meta4@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Love the brevity.

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    • mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean… capitalism is the source of many problems, but probably not why we can’t tell the difference between honey and counterfeit syrup sold as such

      Chemistry is to blame here

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The allergens in honey are from where the honey was made. If you haven’t already you might try locally sourced honey as it will have the allergens that are already in the air where you live.

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    • Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m allergic to basically everything outside so I’m kinda boned.

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• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We need more native pollinators, and honey bees are very good at outcompeting them once they’re introduced, threatening biodiversity and thus ecosystems.

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ah I’m in the UK where they are native pollinators

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    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That doesn’t mean that introducing them in unnatural numbers isn’t harmful to biodiversity and other native pollinators

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      • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s not what we’re talking about though, we have a declining bee population problem that needs intervention to save

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      still not healthy for them to be 85% of what’s pollinating crops, though

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  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Prime wherever you are that’s not the UK defaultism to assume that honeybees are not native pollinators.

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    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Breeding a native species in unnatural numbers is also a way of that species outcompeting other native species and harming biodiversity

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can narrow it down to just the Americas. The European honey bee (and subspecies) are native all across Europe, Asia, and Africa I believe.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Here in Europe, the European Honeybee is, not surprisingly, completely native.

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    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That doesn’t mean that introducing them in unnaturally large numbers isn’t harmful to biodiversity

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      • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh yeah, them artificially displacing solitary bees is still bad

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