I'm a vegan, and i try not to eat any sugar, i do not like stevia.?

Question

I have thought about using maple, but I do not want that maple taste in eveything. So my question is, are beekeeprs mean to the bee's in any way? I would like to use hunny

I am a vegan because I do not want to suport the killing and or abous of any living thing.

Thanks!

Answer 1

One place I'd recommend turning to is sugar alcohols. Xylitol, maltitol and eurithitol are probably the best of the bunch; they are extremly low calorie and have next to no effect on your blood sugar. As an added bonus they can have positive effects on your oral health.

Answer 2

you could use fructose!  it's still a sugar, but it's a natural sugar from fruit/vegetable sources instead of some chemical mish-mash like fruit substitutes are. fructose sugar is what we use when we make diabetic dishes....it's better for your body than common white sugar is.  it can be found at just about any supermarket or grocery. here is a link that talks about fructose sugar:

http://www.fructose.org/facts.asp

EDIT:  by the way, fructose sugar and high fructose corn syrup are NOT the same thing.

Answer 3

It would be difficult to be mean to bees. They are insects and really stupid. However, it should make you happy to know that the bee keepers keep them happy and content so that they produce honey. If the bee keepers taunted them and pulled the wings off for fun they would not be happy and therefore not produce honey. I have also not heard of any be fighting organizations.

The only annoyance they have is when they come around with smoke to clear the bees out.

Answer 4

Your very life depends on bees doing their thing.  Without them, we'd have no fruits or flowering plants to eat.  We'd be stuck eating corn, soy, and rice.  Not a life I'd like to live.  

Support the bee industry and support local agriculture.  Get local RAW honey.  We need more bee farmers as the bees are dying.  But DO know your source and make sure the bees are treated well.

Answer 5

Bee keepers are not mean but most vegans think that they are.

Answer 6

No, beekeepers are not mean.

Bees make honey whether you take some of it from them or not.  When the colony gets too full of honey, the hive splits and a new one is formed.  If you take some of their honey, it just delays when the colony splits.

Beekeepers help the bees avoid disease and predators (skunks, wasps), and bees are not killed or harmed in the process of beekeeping. Beekeeping is *good* for bees.

The poster below is ignorant.  Bees can't discern a beekeeper doing something "good" for the bees (administering medicine, or doing maintenance, or replenishing a syrup dispenser) from a real threat.  If a dog bites a veterinarian does that prove that the vet is "harming" the dog?  So a beekeeper suiting up or using smoke proves nothing.

When I was a beekeeper, I took great care of my critters, and helped them get rid of a mite infestation and invasion of ants.

Answer 7

personally, agave nectar is the best sweetner for me. stevia has a bit of a weird taste to me. this is my fav: http://www.amazon.com/Madhava-Organic-Na...

Answer 8

Why don't you just buy Agave Nectar, Brown Rice Syrup, or Sorghum Syrup?

There are no questions of ethics in the raising of those crops.

Honey is food for bees, made by bees.

Answer 9

Vegans' eat sugar its part of a plant. All veggies and fruits are alive until you pick them off the tree or bush then they are dead so you will have to avoid them too

Maybe you can become an air fern?

Beekeepers can't be mean or the bees would die and they would lose their income.  PETA people are insane someday people will realize this and stop giving them money.

Answer 10

Some vegans eat honey some do not.  I personally do not eat honey.  I don't think beekeepers are "mean", but I do think that the way they gather honey is unnatural for the bees.

Answer 11

You could use agave nectar, beet sugar, date sugar, 100% fruit juice concentrate, barley malt syrup, brown rice syrup, molasses

instead of sugar, maple, stevia, and honey.

Oh and about honey and bees:

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

Answer 12

No! Honey is a great choice! Beekeepers treat their bees great!

Answer 13

I think bee keepers are very good to their bees.  I think it is a very natural process.  

I also suggest you try agave syrup, it is quite good. you can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_syrup

Answer 14

Have you tried brown rice syrup? It's got a pretty neutral taste and can be used in place of honey or syrup.

Answer 15

Plants are living things too.  So what do eat?  Air?

Answer 16

I believe beekeepers love and care for their bees. They actually give the bees a safe comfortable place to breed and live. And the bees need only 10% of the honey they produce. After that the hive gets clogged with overflowing honey. They need honey gatherers to remove this.....bears, humans, whoever will do it.

I'd like to add that ANYTHING you eat was once alive. Except salt is the only substance I can think of (and a few minerals).

Answer 17

You can also use honey.

Answer 18

You want to use honey and contribute to the destruction of biodiversity but you won't eat sugar because there is a possibility that it MIGHT have had bone char as part of the filtering process.

If you are so concerned with sugar, you must have a problem with using a computer, bicycle or car because they all have a small amount of animal by-product in the production. Bone char contributes to no suffering whatsoever.

Honey bees aren't going to fare well much longer. Something is going to eventually come along and wipe most of them out because there are too many and diseases and parasites will spread too quickly.

We need to start promoting the growth of other pollinator populations to restore at least a fraction of the biodiversity that there once was.

Agave nectar is a great substitute for honey.

Answer 19

you seen bee keeping?  the smoke out the bees and have to wear protective clothing, so it must be royally ticking off the bees... so yes, they are mean to the bees.

if you are avoiding sugar in the US, and are a vegan, you only options are artificial sweeteners and stevia.   There is a new sweetener made from stevia that might work, called Truevia:

Answer 20

Fruits and Vegetables are living things.