Chinese imports raise honey questions

“Honey — bees make it, humans take it.”

In “Bee Movie,” the buzz begins as bee Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld) ventures out of the Honex honey factory and discovers humans are stealing the fruits of his labor.

Overcome by the injustice that humans profit from bees working themselves to death, Barry responds in a typically Hollywood way: He falls in love with a florist, sues the human race and gets on “Oprah.”

But the reality behind the animated cuteness looks more like a Jackie Chan action movie than a DreamWorks film. Reports of Chinese price dumping, honey laundering and illegal drug use are raising suspicions that honey-sweetened food may not contain any honey at all.

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