-way over-priced for what you’re getting
-terrible ingredients making unhealthy products
-contaminate laden with pesticides, heavy metals, and/or glyphosate
-products just getting resold and fraudulently advertised as from their farm
These merchants take advantage of the fake aura that markets have where people just think everything is organic, handmade, and natural. When, the majority of the time, it’s the opposite and people are being played.
There are some great merchants, you just need to talk with them and get to know them and their operation to find them.
For instance, take local raw honey from the farmers market as an example.
You would think it would be some of the best honey you can buy, right?
Wrong. Because of how bees collect honey, if any pesticides or glyphosate is sprayed within a several mile radius of the hives, those bees can get those contaminates on their bodies and it ends up in the honey.
Or what about heavy metals?
If your merchant is storing their honey in a container that has welds on it, there is a high likelihood that honey is getting significantly contaminated with lead. See below of a real example of that taking place.
When presented with this information and a genuine offer to work with that person to figure out what was causing the lead contamination, the merchant became defensive and antagonistic. Very telling.
Because of so much uncertainty around honey, and many other food products, we prioritize 3rd party lab testing as an objective, verifiable way to prove you are selling something that’s clean.
Check out http://labtestedfoods.com to find 3rd party lab tested raw honey from @eatlineage and many other great products for sale by merchants that actually care about your health and well-being.