If vegans don't eat honey, why do they eat vegetables, fruits or nuts?!
I'm looking for logic here, not name-calling or other childishness.
Answers: Adequate quantities of these items would simply not be available without commercial beekeeping. Pollination of crops is the prime reason for beekeeping, honey is basically a byproduct.
I'm looking for logic here, not name-calling or other childishness.
Most vegans disagree with the way the honey is collected. Honey bees might be smoked out of their hives with hot smoke, sometimes they are killed or crushed. Either way, it's a natural function to bees to pollinate our crops, it ensures that they'll keep having food, too.
Vegans typically protest exploiting animals for profit, so in a way keeping bees and taking their honey and selling it, even after the bees have already done us a huge favor by keeping all our staple crops alive and pollinated, is sort of exploitative. Besides, there's a way to replace honey in food with agave nectar so it's not even something that's irreplaceable.
Personally I'm not as strict about honey as other vegans are, but that's just me. I don't buy honey at all, I don't really cook with it, but if there is a food that is pretty much vegan except for some honey (like graham crackers that I want to use for a graham cracker pie crust) I'm not going to have some huge meltdown and write six letters of protest to the graham cracker company. But once again, that's just me.
The reason so many bees are needed to pollenate all those crops in the first place, is because most of those crops are grown for livestock consumption.
No more livestock; greatly reduced need for bees.
Vegans win out in the logic stakes again, huh?
In my opinion its wrong to considere that the beekeeping by human is needed to have adequate quantities of fruits,nuts or vegetables. The problem is more that we (human) are using so much chemical products, with the effect that bees are dying everywhere. If you imagine a world without animals exploitation and with a respectfull organic production of vegetables and fruits, you will probably realize that much more bees will be alive without any interventionism of humans.
Vegans are against animals exploitation. Honey is produced for bee's needs and not for human's needs. So, its just logical to refuse to eat honey.
And if like you said, bees are keeped only for pollination, so I dont have to be worried. The price of fruits and vegetable will maybe increase a little bit if honey is not sold anymore, but I'm confident than human will not stop to produce vegetables or fruits. And the benefit for bees will be that they will be keeped alive without have to suffer of carrencies because of the sweet water that we substitute when we stoll their honey. Its a win win deal.. Isn't?
Vegetables, fruits and nuts are not animal byproducts. Some vegans ... not all of us . .. do not eat honey because it is an animal byproduct and bees are hurt/killed in the process of gathering honey.
they do eat honey, who said so!?
To answer your question... Honey is from an animal. Vegetables are not.
What is so confusing about it??