"What's interesting about honey is that it's a paradox. It is produced by bees, a non-kosher animal, but is itself kosher. And not only is it kosher, but it has been lauded as a special food from the patriarch Jacob's time until today.

How can a product of a non-kosher animal be kosher? It is said that honey is kosher since it is produced outside of the body of the bee. But in fact, this is only partially true. Bees produce honey by collecting nectar from flowers, and storing the nectar in the honey sac, which is part of their digestive system.

The field bee returns to the hive, and as the partially processed nectar is passed from bee to bee, water evaporates from the nectar. The bees add an enzyme to the nectar to break down the complex sugars (predominantly sucrose) into simpler sugars (fructose and glucose). The nectar is then deposited into a cell of the honeycomb and the bees continue the processing by beating their wings vigorously. The flow of air inside the dry hive causes more evaporation to occur until the thickened and chemically altered nectar becomes honey."

Here’s the buzz on honey, Judaism’s sweet standby
by MIRYAM Z. WAHRMAN

You can buy your very own kosher honey at The Bees' Knees Country Store.

"'Tell us your riddle,' they said. 'Let's hear it.' 
He replied, 'Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet.'
For three days they could not give the answer.  On the fourth day, they said to Samson's wife, 'Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father's household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?'  Then Samson's wife threw herself on him, sobbing, 'You hate me! You don't really love me. You've given my people a riddle, but you haven't told me the answer.' 
'I haven't even explained it to my father or mother,' he replied, 'so why should I explain it to you?' 
She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people. 
Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him, 'What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?' Samson said to them, 'If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle.'"
                                                                                                                                                                                            Judges 14:13-18

Commentary and comparison of Samson with Christ.

What is reality?  One author suggests that it's wrong to anthropomorphize animals because it distorts objective reality.

"There are at least two other ways in which we routinely corrupt our understanding of the non-human world by our choice of language: the use of words to name or describe an animal and the description of animal behaviour in human terms."
The Beatrix Potter Syndrome
By Philip Chandler

However, I would argue that objective reality is whatever reality the individual happens to subscribe to.

"Now physicists from Austria claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a broad class of hidden-variables theories that focus on realism -- giving the uneasy consequence that reality does not exist when we are not observing it ."
Quantum physics says goodbye to reality
Jon Cartwright

So physics says that reality is whatever you see.  And, if we assume that each one of us views the world in our own unique way, then reality differs for each and every one of us.  Therefore, there is no "objective" reality.  All reality is subjective.  If I want to anthropomorphize honey bees in my view of reality, well then, that's just as scientifically acceptable as any of the more objective (human-detached) views of honey bees, the insect world, or animals in general.  Furthermore, if I don't exist, then nothing else exists either, because reality ceases to exist.

"Francis Bacon knew that in order to command nature, one must act according to its rules and identity. The statement Reality is Absolute is the explicit recognition of the primacy of existence. This means that reality is not subject to wishes, whims, prayers, or miracles. If you want to change the world, you must act according to reality. Nothing else will affect reality. If you evade this fact, your actions will most likely not have their desired effects. Your failure will be metaphysical justice.
The primacy of existence states the irrefutable truth that existence is primary and consciousness is secondary. Consciousness is the faculty which perceives and identifies existents (things that exists). For two reasons we say that existence is primary, that consciousness requires existence, and that there is no consciousness without existence.
Because consciousness identifies existents, there can be no consciousness without something existing to perceive. Nothing can have an identity (to be identified) without existing. The fact that something is identified necessarily implies its existence which necessarily implies existence in general. Thus there is no consciousness without existence."
Reality Is Absolute: The Primacy of Existence
by Jeff Landauer and Joseph Rowlands

That's some good logic.  Unfortunately, physics, the purest of the sciences, says that things only exist when they have been observed to exist.  Prior to that observation, existence is unknown.  Maybe said object existed, maybe it didn't.  There's no way to know.

"Quantum mechanics has been one of the most successful theories in science and is believed by many to underlie all known natural phenomena. More than eighty years after its discovery, however, a complete understanding of the theory's 'physical principles' and implications still eludes us. Many believe that quantum physics poses a serious challenge to philosophical ideas such as determinism, reductionism, and local realism and that it presents us with a radically new vision of reality."
Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality
John Templeton Foundation

Which brings me back to a point I've made before in this blog, that no one really knows what they're talking about.  Expert politicians don't know a thing about governing, expert scientists don't know a thing about reality, expert philosophers don't know a thing about science, expert doctors don't know a thing about healing, and expert experts like myself don't know a thing about anything.

"For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known."
- 1 Corinthians 13: 9-12

"'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the Lord.  'As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.'"
 - Isaiah 55: 8-9

1. It tastes really good.
2. Honey is good for you, especially local honey.
3. Honey beats sugar.  Honey is sweeter and healthier than it's sugary competitors.
4. Winnie the Pooh endorses honey.
5. If bears love it, it must be good.
6. Everyone benefits from the production of honey.  The bees get a free home and health insurance, the plants get pollinators, and man gets honey and food.
7. It's easy to find honey made by a beekeeper near you.
8. Homegrown honey is and always has been 100% organic.
9. God tells us to eat honey.  It's Biblical.
10. You'll be a true American Patriot.  There's nothing more American than local honey.

Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.
Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.