If honey is not organic that means that bees were using the flowers with pesticides. Organic beekeeping is the beekeeping practiced in clean environment, without intensive agriculture, use of synthetic feed and chemicals harmful for the bees.
Thereâs no way of knowing exactly how many of Henriettaâs cells are alive today. One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, theyâd weigh more than 50 million metric tonsâan inconceivable number, given that an individual cell weighs almost nothing.
The HeLa cell line was established in 1951 from a biopsy of a cervical tumour taken from Henrietta Lacks, a working-class African-American woman living near Baltimore. The cells were taken without the knowledge or permission of her or her family, and they became the first human cells to grow well in a lab.