How FSSAI cheated India's beekeepers, and you
The food regulator in October legitimized adulterated honey, allowing it to be packaged as the real deal. What?!
The news broke, as it does these days, with a tweet. Mukesh Pathak’s feed is a patchwork of WhatsApp forwards, selfies, factoids about honey and exaltations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party. But on 1 November, the beekeeper from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, digressed with this announcement:
The snippet he linked to is one of those whose minutiae make sense only to specialists; in this case, food scientists and technologists. But you needn’t be a specialist to read between the lines or know about the butterfly effect, know that the push of an 'Enter' key here …
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Roshni P. NairRoshni is a features writer and former editor of The Morning Context's Chaos team. Her career spans The Ken, Reuters, the Hindustan Times and DNA. She is a recipient of the UNFPA Laadli award and was shortlisted for the RedInk Awards 2016 for her story on Mumbai’s leprosy colonies. Her far-flung ideas would sometimes drive our editor-in-chief Ashish up the wall, but he wouldn’t have had it any other way (even if he didn’t admit it).
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