Mānuka honey gets the headlines and the export dollars, but honeys from the nectar of other New Zealand native trees have their own unique tastes and properties. It’s time to spread the love around.
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The mānuka honey trademark case shows how Aotearoa New Zealand’s law lacks substantive protections for Māori intellectual property rights.
Hives that travel by truck, bees paid for their pollination service, adulterated honey, economic theories based on an imaginary social organization…
While industry bodies fight over who can claim that their mānuka honey is authentic, Māori interests are often left out of the debate.
The bee product industry is booming and in unregulated markets, there is a strong economic incentive to cheat. Self regulation combined with legal deterrence could help clean up the sticky mess.
Manuka honey has a lot of evidence-based benefits, and a lot of rubbish claims too.
Ten questions to test your knowledge.
New Zealand is currently pushing to certify and protect Manuka honey. Should Australia follow suit with King Island Beef?
Manuka honey could prevent serious urinary tract infections caused by catheters – tubes used to drain patients’ bladders, new laboratory research has found.
It could yet become a powerful weapon in our medical arsenal.
Tasmania’s bushfires have hurt not only the state’s forests, but also the honey industry that depends on access to the region’s unique trees.
Those of us who consume honey as a tastier alternative to refined sugar would have been disturbed to see headlines proclaiming Australian honey could be making us sick. Why, you might wonder, could this…
Honey has been regarded as a delicious and natural sweetener for at least 4,000 years. As well as a food, ancient peoples also regarded honey as an ointment and its antibacterial properties are currently…
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