I just read someone's answer that says vegans don't eat honey? Why not, bees are not killed, nor confined?

Question

I understand the feelings of not eating meat or meat products, though i don't practice it myself, but it baffles me about the honey. Bees produce more than they use, and there is no abuse of bees in the gathering. I am not judging, I really want to know the reasoning. We just started keeping bees because we are trying to encourage them in our area..with out them we won't have the fruits and vegetables and nuts we all love, scientists are predicting within twenty years we won't have wheat if we don't find out why the bees are dying off so fast. Thanks for your answers.

Answer 1

Because it is a product of the bee. It's been inside the bee. Something like that. I don't think it makes sence, however it's their belief that they don't want to eat anything associated with an animal. Go make that honey! There are many of us who do want it.  

Answer 2

Because Bees obviously have feelings....  DUH!  

What's funny though is that while vegans do alot of these things, they're often big into organically harvested vegetables too.  One of the biggest things organic farmers do to ensure a crop is to sprinkle the ground with a special kind of bacterium that is harmless to people but fatal to caterpillars.  I makes the caterpillars stomachs explode if they eat it or rub against it!  

Apparently it's not okay to take excess honey, but it IS ok to murder infantile moth's and butterflys.  How odd...

Answer 3

Vegan people do not eat anything that comes from an animal.

Bees are animals.

If you really want a list of reasons why, read further.

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

Answer 4

Because vegans don't eat any animal product what so ever.

Answer 5

Vegans don't eat or use any animal products if they can be avoided. They don't believe in the exploitation of animals.

'They are boxed and penned and shipped across the country in big rigs. They are taken from their natural environment and placed where we want them, not where they want to be."-and if they weren't, there wouldn't be any produce to eat because the wild bee population has dwindled to almost nil.

Answer 6

Bees ARE harmed in the production of honey. They are also stripped of their honey that they would normally use to survive during the winter, and fed sugar water instead. Beekeepers choose a bee to be queen bee and artificially inseminate it by pulling the head of a male bee so that it ejaculates. Take a look at the link below for more info.

Answer 7

they are harmed.

which includes their legs getting pulled off their bodies. ick.

Answer 8

If you had spent half the time it took to write this question to do a little research, you wouldn't have to ask.

Bees are killed and their honey (that they worked their little stingers off to make for THEIR babies and family) is taken from them.

The bee keepers smoke the bees out of the hives so they can take their honey to sell for profit.  They replace it with corn syrup, which is cheap and less nutritious to the bees.  Many bees are smashed and suffocated in this process.

It's not only about the death of the bees.  It's the way the bee keepers use them for profit.  The bees get nothing in return for all the hard work they do for the farmers.

Bees are bought and sold like any other possession.  They are boxed and penned and shipped across the country in big rigs.  They are taken from their natural environment and placed where we want them, not where they want to be.

They are genetically altered and messed-with.  Sometimes the queen is even stolen from the hive.

I have nothing against farmers setting up hives to help get their crops pollinated.  They don't need to then take the honey...but they do because they are greedy.

Maybe fewer bees would die if they weren't treated as just another commodity.  Bees were not put on earth to give us honey.  They were put on earth to pollinate plants.  Humans are good at enslaving the week though.

I am vegan and I let the animals keep what they make, especially what they make for their families and young.  I can live on things that are not stolen.