Why we vegans don't eat honey?

Question

I dont eat animal products at all, and I don't want to eat honey, I'm just curious... how are bees tortured? I know nothing about them... why do they make honey? and where?

Answer 1

A vegan doesn't eat any animal product, regardless of whether the animal suffers or not.

However, honey is unique in that it is a food actively created by an animal, so you could argue that it is not an 'animal product'. Depends how picky you want to be.

Answer 2

We vegans don't eat honey because while collecting honey,bees are tortured and many of their small cute larvae die. Don't eat honey if u really are a vegetarian and love insects.

Answer 3

The bees aren't tortured when collecting honey.  Bees produce honey combs by regurgitating the food they eat from area flowers.  Curators collect the honey combs and spin out the honey.  Bees reproduce the honey combs quickly.  The reason they make the honey combs is to provide housing for larvae and the honey is used for food.

Honey = Bee Puke

Answer 4

I had the same question myself when I became vegan. I didn't eat honey because it was an animal product but, like you, I wanted to know the reason I didn't eat honey. I wanted to understand exactly why honey is not vegan.

This is the best website I found in my search and it sums up the arguments much more eloquently than I ever could:

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

Answer 5

I am a vegan and i eat honey its the red meat i dont touch.

Answer 6

The bees aren't really hurt when making the honey but when they collect it the bees are smoked, I believe that it knocks them out or sorta makes them high. If the bees try to sting the people collecting the honey and their stinger comes out they die. The bees are also crushed in the process of collecting the honey. If you Google it you can get heaps more information. Probably more accurate than mine.

Hope I helped.

Answer 7

Honey bees do not belong in North America and they should not be favored over bees that produce no honey.

The honey industry has destroyed a vital portion of biodiversity.

Almost 20,000 species exist, and naturally, those that make a profit on the sale of honey would not want their hives competing don't for food with "useless" insects that don't produce anything.

With this unbalance, we have created a situation of great vulnerability. If a disease strikes the most common species, it will be easier to spread with colonies closer together and if there is a great loss in population, how will we fertilize the large amount of crops that we depend on?

Answer 8

Bees make honey as a source of food so that they can attempt to survive winter. Taking it all away from them causes them to die in the long term. Usually I am told, a "bee keeper" will not take all the honey away from the bees and substitutes the honey for some sugary concoction. In this situation the bees are not so much tortured physically by "bee keepers" as they are victims of theft which is still in my view, very wrong. Honey is a bees property and they go though  lot to produce it. In a way it's like taking a pandas bamboo away to use it to make a table. A bee relys on his/her honey ato survive and humans just use it to spread onto a piece of bread.

Answer 9

Because honey comes from bees and vegans don't eat anyhting that comes from any animal. Period.

Answer 10

Bees eat the nector and it changes in their system and is reguritated back up.

Answer 11

Honey is food made by bees for bees.  It doesn't belong to humans.  Therefor, stealing honey is exploitation.

Furthermore, bees ARE harmed in honey harvesting.

Several species of bees are becoming endangered.  Without bees to pollenate vegetable crops, humans (and the rest of the world) are f*cked.

So, seeing as how I don't approve of animal exploitation, I don't need it for health/wellbeing, I don't like eating vomit and I'm interested in maintaining environmental sustainability... I don't eat honey.

Answer 12

People are vegetarian for many reasons besides cruelty to animals. Honey is an animal byproduct.