What is the argument in the vegan community on honey?!
Why do some vegans argue that honey is alright to consume? to me it seems pretty clear-cut at a glance
Answers:
I don't know why some "vegans" eat honey.
The definition of veganism is to avoid exploiting animals in every way possible. Since a honeybee is an animal, taking what it works its entire life for would most definitely fall under "exploitation".
Regardless, bee vomit is a lot less appetizing that agave nectar. (:
We need bee-keeping to sustain our crops. Even crops vegans eat. One third of all food consumed in the US requires bee pollination. Most crops must hire bee-keeping services to pollinate their vast crops because local bee populations are not enough. Honey is one of the products of bee-keeping that keeps bee-keepers in business.
I doubt anyone is killing bees, because there has been a dangerous reduction in the amount of pollen carrying bees. Now honey is a naturally happening byproduct of bees. If man made bee hives weren't available, they would make their own. Just be aware of where you food comes from. Is that animal living life fully?
Most people are stuck in their backward ways. People that say honey is healthy... Really? Ingesting a neurotoxin is healthy? Where do you think bees get that wickedly painful and numbing sting from? The liquid they inject after a sting looks like honey too.
a "vegan" who eats honey is NOT a vegan. the ones who say this are (usually) uneducated and definitely speciest.
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I would bet you're so cranky because you're hungry.