Why don't vegans eat honey and eggs?!


Question: The eggs are not baby chickens because they were not serviced my a **** bird. The eggs at the store are like the eggs when a human ovulates.

Taking honey doesn't hurt the bees I don't think.


Answers: The eggs are not baby chickens because they were not serviced my a **** bird. The eggs at the store are like the eggs when a human ovulates.

Taking honey doesn't hurt the bees I don't think.

Vegans look at the big picture and while the actual egg might not turn into a chicken, the process of producing eggs are a result of pain and death.

Male chicks are useless to the egg industry and so are killed at birth. Most of the conditions that egg laying hens are kept in are quite frankly disgusting... especially battery farmed hens that can't even turn around in their cage where they're kept their whole lives. Free range hens get to move around but most are still kept by the thousands in cramped ammonia filled warehouses and rarely, if ever, get to see the light of day due to the pecking order. Hens naturally live in packs of no more than 10, not by the thousands and not in those conditions. This causes stress and disease and the 'farmers' answer to this is to pump them full of drugs. They also de-beak the hens so that they don't injure eachother from the stress... they do this with no anaesthetic and literally just chop their beaks off.

When their egg production dwindles they are killed anyway for their meat usually only a quater of the way through through their natural lives.

As for honey, bees produce honey for themselves, not for humans. We destroy their habitats and steal the honey from them for our own benefit. Some bees are often crushed in the process and the queen bees are routinely killed on purpose. The hives are often gassed and the bees are bred and transported around the world which all causes them great stress.

Personally I don't think any animal should be 'used' for our benefit. They're not machines, they're living beings and I wouldn't be happy consuming or gaining benefit from something when I know something else has gone through pain to produce it for me. You're right, eggs and honey aren't directly causing the animals pain but the process of producing them does and supporting these industries is supporting the exploitation and resulting suffering of animals.

They dont, not if they are true vegans

i dont know

because honey is made from bees, and eggs are made from birds, and they dont any animal or any product derived from an animal, it is a principle, its quite obvious actually

Vegans don't eat anything produced by an animal.

They is a strange folk.

They are animal products. Some vegitarians do eat eggs and honey. Their are different types.

good question

Because they cannot eat things that came from animals or insects

Vegans dont eat ANYTHING that comes from animals.

I'm not even sure if they drink milk.
I dunno...

never heard about honey, but eggs because they are chicken embryos. honey is all natural it is stolen from bees, but i never heard of any of my vegan friends not eating all natural honey.

vegans dont eat anything that "comes from an animal" even milk-painful or not.

vegans don't eat anything that was at the expense of a living creature, therefore not eating honey is because a bee produced it and the egg is because it is like in a way taking a life.

many vgans are not mentally stable. they do not like that honey comes from bees -- even though bees pobbably fertilized many plants that make up their diet, which plants were also grown by cow poo.

vegans are to not eat or drink anything that has to do with animals at all - though i agree to a point - on the eggs and honey - the bees arent hurt for honey - and your right the eggs arent fertilized but i imagine its still a female part of an animal in a way - so i could maybe understand that -

Most factories that hens are kept in for laying eggs are very cruel. Think of four-six hens stuffed in a file cabinet drawer. Then multiply that by thousands and you have an egg farm. As to honey, I'm not sure. You do have to smoke bees in order to harvest the honey, which makes them confused so they eat tons of the honey so they become lethargic, but it's not really hurtful. They do recover.

I have heard vegans say that commercial honey hurts the bees not because honey is hurting bees but because the way commercial bee hives are built it injures their wings. I do not know if that is true or not.

The eggs aren't baby chicks, but the way that animals are kept in captivity to lay eggs bothers some people, they de-beak some of the hens, but not all farms do that.

Some people avoid animal products completely so that no animals are domesticated soley to be or produce food for the person.

Vegans way overreact, but being a vegan means you don't eat any animal product, including the ones that don't hurt the animal. That is silly because humans are made to be omnivores, not herbivores. Just like wolves eat meat. I mean, seriously, wouldn't it be weird if some wolves ate only plants!

P.S. Honey is actually bee poop, they eat the pollen. Good quality honey is white, but people think white honey's gross, so they add bad quality honey, which is yellow.

because they believe that you are disturbing the creatures natural way of life. For example. if those eggs werent taken from the hen then they would eventually become chickens. Aside from that they are also usually very well aware of the way in which the foods are attained. And hens for example are kept with hundreds of other hens and forced to live in bad environments i order to reproduce simply what is needed. Vegans believe that it is abusive and unfair to cage animals and treat them with disrespect. I had a friend who was vegan. and he believed that even flies! deserved the same respect as humans and should not be disturbed. personally i disagree with that way of thinking but to every man his own i say.

I have never understood the honey thing except that honey is the equivalent of bee poop. The eggs, I get. It doesn't hurt my feelings when I flush the comode, so what is wrong with taking the honey.

They are with the impression that what they eat will lengthen their days on this earth, but sorry their are no guarantee's.

Not a vegan, but if I was, the genuine hard labor of the bee would offend me to steal it.
As for eggs, an unborn chick has the same protine as a developing egg, and if one Rooster is loose, who is to say 10 roosters are not loose.
Now, I am careful, but I am not as Vegan,so the no protine might come from the idea that We as Humans inject crap into the blood streams of our meaty animals on a regular basis.
Vegans might not want to partake in antibiotics, fungicides, and disease resistant germs that regular raised cattle have in common.;

What percentage of organic, i.e. human and animal waste (read corpses), does arable soil contain and how much ends up in the "clean" vegetables you eat???
Do me a favor!

I know i don't get it either. And than honey i guess is from bees. I don't get why they don't eat things from animals. I'm sorry i just don't get it at all. We're part of the food chain weather we like it or not!

*SIGH*SIGH*

Vegans don't use any product that has come from an animal or has been tested on an animal, that is the definition of a vegan.

Vegan people do not consume animal products.

Bees and chickens are animals so nothing that originates from them is vegan.

Chickens live in disgusting warehouses that are so crammed full of birds that they cannot turn around or spread a wing.

People do not need honey, bees do. When honey is stolen, it is replaced with cheap corn syrup that makes the bees sick.
Before winter, bees are often burned alive in their hives for various reasons, including the elimination of risk of liability if they were to harm someone when left unattended for an entire season.

The egg has as a purpose to create a baby bird. If it didn't, it's cause it was stolen from the mother bird.
About honey - well, that one belongs to the bees, it's theirs. Someone stole it from the bees and brought it to us.

Um... No one cares about the eggs we care about the chickens that are tortured to procure the eggs.

you were right when you said you don't think. do some research, little guy

they do i know 5 vegins they all eat eggs and use honey in tea! dumb as*!

Vegans are just posh anorexics.
They don't want to eat, or live and want to make everyone else follow their whacked out ideas.
I hope they realise that when they die the worms eating them are not going to be vegans





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