"Organic" Farming and the True Cost of Food-A Small Farmers Perspective

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132. A little OT, but

I am a hard-core skeptic about most "health food" claims. Unless it's backed up by evidence - a study is well-designed and double-blinded - I'm not likely to believe it.

Having said that, I'm eagerly awaiting a well-designed reputable study on locally grown honey and its effect on allergies and other conditions, because it makes perfectly logical sense to me that if you're regularly eating local honey, your body is going to react differently to local allergens than if you're not. Until then, no harm putting a teaspoon a day of delicious local honey into my greek yogurt.

And as I'm sure you know, honey also has proven anti-infective properties, and has been proven to work on burns.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/health/19real.html