Can [strict] vegan's eat honney?

Question

I want to know if vegan's can eat honney....since it comes from a bee.

[Vegans can't eat meat or food from animals like dairy, but I never learned anything about bee food...help!?!]

Answer 1

No.

Answer 2

Honey is an animal byproduct, your basically stealing his food supply. Definately not vegan.

Answer 3

No, vegans don't eat animal products and honey is an animal product.  Bees make honey for the hive to feed on during the winter months.  When we take honey, some bees die as a result.  You will find a fair amount of dispute within the vegan community regarding insect products as not all vegans are thoroughly convinced that insects have the capacity for suffering (and reducing animal suffering is really the goal of veganism.)

Answer 4

Strict vegans can't.  They use maple syrup or barley syrup instead.

Some vegans even avoid food fertilized with manure or bone meal.

http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/07/05/org...

Answer 5

Most of the time it is an indvual choice. But by the defniation of veganism honey is not consdeired vegan. Although I do know a lot of vegans who consume it, but most I know (including myself) do not.

Check out this link:

http://www.vegetus.org/honey/honey.htm

Answer 6

No. Its from an animal. Sorry.

Answer 7

no, as it derives from an animal

Answer 8

I don't think so! Not an expert though! I think the strictest of vegans stay away from any item related to animals and if the bees are producing the honey and then we take it away seems to me like they would have a problem with that.

Answer 9

honney is made from bees its true

Answer 10

uuuhhh no than why would you put the label strict when your obviously not if you consume honey? use agave instead for a sugar subsitute its really good healthy and natural yes it comes from the same plant that makes tecquila you can find it in health stores now a days easy i dont use sugar anymore becase its bad for you and go for agave and trying to get off honey ( trying to become vegan)

Answer 11

I'm not vegan, but I do understand the motives behind it, and I would say you can. I realize this is probably going to be an unpopular opinion, but let me explain my rationale.

For one thing, in the wild bees make way more honey than they can use anyway, and honey farmers don't want their bees to all die, so they typically leave enough to support the colony over the winter. And honestly, I don't know how you'd even separate the bees dying because of not having enough food (if that was even the case) from the bees who were just dying naturally. They aren't like cows or pigs where you can see "that cow is underfed" or say "that pig was only a year old, it shouldn't have died." Regular honeybees only live an average of 30 days, and frequently die much earlier because of extreme weather or stinging somebody.

Plus the reason a lot of vegans don't eat animal byproducts (milk, eggs) is because the animals that produce the products are treated poorly. I somehow doubt that bees note the difference between a big white box shaped hive and a hollow stump. They're not confined, they aren't given growth hormones or antibiotics (I'd like to see someone try and inject a bee!) and as I said, they usually have more than enough honey to survive on, so humans taking the excess is probably not that big a deal to them.

So in short, I guess it just depends on whether A) you think bees qualify as "animals" and not just insects, and B) whether you think the bees are hurt by you eating their honey. I would suggest doing some research on honey "farms" and where honey comes from. If you feel alright about their practices, then I'd say go for it.

Answer 12

No. That would be the same as drinking milk vegans do not eat honey.

Answer 13

anything derived from an animal is considered an animal product.... i would say no.....

Answer 14

nop

they have mapl syrup

Answer 15

Nope, and here is why:

http://www.vegetus.org/honey/honey.htm