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Anyone buying a Parmigiano shaker thinking it's real Parmigiano cheese has much bigger problems than believing their cheese is really authentic Parmigiano cheese.

My Grandfather is a hobbyist beekeeper. He generally has around 18 to 20 active beehives and specializes in raspberry honey, as there are large raspberry fields nearby. The honey his bees produce is unlike any other I have ever tried. It's almost as if you took the smell of a blooming raspberry garden and closed it in a jar. His bees produce around 300-350kg of that honey every year and it goes for around ~20$/kg, so it's really quite expensive. But it sells out so quickly, people make reservations 2 years in advance. It's completely worth it though - the taste is amazing and it will never spoil unless you contaminate the jar. Every summer I spend a weekend or two helping him maintain the apiary and it's such a relaxing experience. Over the last 10 years I got stung maybe a dozen times and I don't even bother with protective clothing. Bees really are precious critters and need to be protected.

the point about people not buying cheap crap would help, the problem with this is so many people have to buy cheap just to survive, they can't afford to choose.

My professor quoted a line from Nepal, it says if you have no food on your table you have one problem but if you have food on the table you have thousands. This thing really hit me hard.

As a person with severe allergies, the fact that the label can lie is probably the scariest part of this for me.

Love that companies can just get away with literally false advertising and illegal practices with 0 consequences because of money

Biggest problem is that misleading labels are legal.

I started making my own chocolate fudge sauce because all the store brands are now using high fructose corn syrup. The Aldi brand was the last one to cave. When I started buying it a few years ago, it listed just sugar, but now it has HFCS in the ingredients. I look at all labels now to avoid that ingredient in my diet. I think it’s one of major causes of the mass obesity in our country.

Yes blame the consumer, it's all their fault, because they buy the stuff that's allowed to be sold to them. Let's not talk about the "alleged" corruption that allows the fake and poisoned food to be on store shelfs.

As a beekeeper I understand what they’re talking about when they say you have to have patience. I don’t really get much honey but when I do, it’s wonderful when I sell it to my customers and they tell me that it is the best honey that they’ve ever tasted. I didn’t even know that China was the largest producer of Honey in the world

Thank you for making this video. Very informative. I had no idea about most of them.

A core problem is allowing terms such as "artificial flavor" and "natural flavor" as "ingredients" (and all their variations). A flavor, whether artificial or real, is NOT an ingredient - it is a property of an ingredient. Edit: I originally used the terms "artificial flavoring" and "natural flavoring", but a couple of comments pointed out that "flavoring" is not "flavor". So, I changed "flavoring" to "flavor" to be more grammatically consistent with the rest of the comment. However, "flavoring" is also used in ingredients lists, and is just as wrong.

I remember years ago I started only buying peanut butter that contained peanuts. Family laughed at me. I didn't think expecting my peanut butter to be made from peanuts was unreasonable.

My mom used to warn us about fake and harmful products in food. She learned this many years ago in college. Imagine a college teaching the dangers of fake vs real anything today.

Thank you soooooooo much for this!!!

I hated "cheese" most of my life, until I was 19 and someone gave my dad authentic parmegiano reggiano. Everyone else said it tasted bad and I didn't want it to go to waste so I tried it. Omg. Changed my life. I actually do like cheese. Just not the processed kind. It's life changing

The worst part isn’t even the fact that it is literally fraud, but that committing the fraud hurts the industries that actually makes the real stuff, thus stunting their potential growth and the global supply of the authentic products. :/

They used to use pigs to sniff out truffles. Most don't know pigs have an excellent sense of smell. Pigs have 1,113 olfactory receptor genes compared to an average of 811 in dogs, which can contribute to how well they detect odors. So, why the change? Pigs would sniff it out then eat it. 😃

its beautiful and very informative!!))

I honestly don't mind imitation products as long as they taste good and won't hurt me, but I DO mind is being lied to and potentially poisoned by greedy companies.