How come vegans can't eat honey?!
How come vegans can't eat honey?
bee is not an animal, how come vegans won't eat honey, I don't understand this at all, honey is healthy, anyone know? is it because bee is an animal? bee come from animal by-product?
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Lots of good answers about why vegans don't use honey along with the usual group of ignorant insecure trolls that have such a lousy life that they have time to come here to bash vegheads.
On a *constructive* note I'd like to point out that Agave Nectar is readily available, uses/abuses no animals at all, and is almost the same as honey except that there are not worries of botulism spores or other frequent contaminants of honey
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I'm not a vegan but the trolls seem to think I'm one
A bee is an animal!
Honey is a strong sweetener.
Vegans consider bees living, moving creatures and they refrain from eating anything that is produced by or comes from a living, moving creature.
A bee is certainly an animal. Some vegans do in fact eat honey, since honey itself is produced from flower nectar. Others argue that since honey is produced by bees for bees that humans have no right to steal another animal's food. This argument could also be applied to anything we eat so I am not sure if it is completely valid.
they dont hav anything to do with living creatures (aka animals) so that means they dont eat honey, eggs, milk, cheese and anything else that humans need animals to provide for them
A bee is very much an animal. Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by honeybees from the nectar of flowers
A bee is not an animal? What is it then? A mineral? Of course bee's are animals.
My kids are vegetarians and they eat honey. Bees were not killed to make it. It was what they were created to do. I mean, the bees don't eat their own honey....it seems ridiculous to elevate a bee so high. Like they would be offended if you took their honey:)
They do not want to eat bee poop ? -:)
a bee is a living creture so i'm guessing they concider honey the same as beef or chicken or milk
The simplest reason why honey isn't vegan is by definition. The term vegan was coined by Donald Watson in 1944 and was defined as follows:
Veganism is a way of living which excludes all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, the animal kingdom, and includes a reverence for life. It applies to the practice of living on the products of the plant kingdom to the exclusion of flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, honey, animal milk and its derivatives, and encourages the use of alternatives for all commodities derived wholly or in part from animals.
Bees are animaals and honey making 'enslaves' the bees to a life of serventry. They may die in thier captive man made boxes or thru traveling in trucks(the bees often get shipped around).
honey is not the only product of bee exploitation. The following are other bee products to watch out for:
Bee venom is obtained when the bee stings someone or something. The bee dies if she stings someone.
Bee pollen is pollen collected by bees. It also contains some nectar and bee saliva. It is popular because humans cannot collect such a wide variety of pollen.
Royal jelly is the nutritious food (for bees) fed only to the queen. It literally makes workers into queens.
Beeswax is secreted by bees to build their hives.
Propolis is plant resin collected by bees and mixed with enzymes. It is used around the hive as glue and as an antiseptic.
Bee brood are bees that are not fully developed. Not even vegetarian.
I personally love honey & will continue to eat it ( I'm not vegan/vegitarian but am opposed to mistreatment of food animals).
Vegans don't eat honey because they believe that as bees are the ones that make the honey they are the ones that should eat it. Bees need honey for survival. Humans should not steal the product of all the bees' hard work. Humans are brought up to think for themselves and be original and never steal. This same practice is used not just for other humans but for bees too. Vegans believe that all animals are equal and that humans are not better than any other animal. Therefore principles that are set for other humans should also be practiced for other animals, also.
Because they do not eat the bi-products of a living creature either.
It's a animal by-product and vegans don't eat anything from an animal.
There is a fake Honey made from Lucust Bean gum! I know some extremist Vegans won't even use that. Well honey is made from bees not a plant. Honey isn't a plant product it's made by the bees a critter vegans consider to be an animal! Locust Bean Gum Honey is almost as good as the real thing but extremely expensive.. so I'm a vegetarian not a vegan but I do have some vegan friends!
Happy New Year!
You can get honey that isn't made from bees. I am not a strict vegan, so I still eat honey, dairy and fish.
bee cause bees belong to the Ecdysozoa family, they are spiders and craps, so don't eat eggs ok?
it is too sweet for me anyway
Some vegans would consider that stealing the animals food/goods and that is a no no to a true vegan.
Yes it's an animal by product.
You couldn't even eat animal droppings if you wanted to.
Although you can use them as fertilizer? Explain that one...
Freshen up on your biology before you ask these questions--bees ARE in the animal kingdom, just like all other insects.
Vegans don't eat any meat or animal by-products.
I always consider it ironic that vegans step on bugs and numerous bugs get smashed on their windshields but will not eat honey which is from a bee but the bee is not killed in the process.
beecause bees bee beeserk