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In Reply to: For the love of honey, nature, and the wild ecosystems posted by Jim on October 18, 2006 at 10:17 am:
"Normally some redness and swelling will result from the sting, but this usually resolves in a few hours. In the allergic individual, a more long lasting and severe reaction will occur. A mild reaction will include intense redness, swelling, itching and pain all occurring within minutes. More severe reactions include generalised swelling and itching, faintness, sweating, a pounding headache, stomach cramps or vomiting, a feel of impending doom, a tight chest or choking sensation with swelling of the throat and in extreme cases anaphylactic shock with death resulting. However, if you are allergic to the venom of the sting of that species of insect, you will develop mild to life threateningly severe allergic reactions. Life threatening reactions are more likely to occur in people who are already known to be very allergic to bee venom, older people with pre-existing heart and chest complaints, or with multiple stings." More honey farms? Miles and miles of stinging insects in wooden huts which are made from trees. When I weigh in on that scenario, I don’t see the scales tipping in any great way towards beekeeping and it's benefit for the environment. Plain old sugar tastes better than honey. The sugar, in the honey, for most, why it's put on foods and in beverages. The 'sweetness' is from the sucrose or sugar naturally in the honey, that your tongue picks up on. The thing that makes it 'honey like' is the weird smell our brains associate with honey that your tongue cannot detect. Take away the smell, and it's just sugar. Basically, honey is sugar with some insect stink/scent naturally in it.
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