i got banned from a vegan comm for saying that bees tend to leave hives if they're not satisfied with the conditions, a fact that's just verifiably true.
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Honestly, I'm on Team Honey, but that argument has a glaring hole in it.
Which is that many apiaries put an object over the entrance to the hive which lets worker bees pass freely but blocks the queen from escaping. And worker bees bonded to a queen will literally die before abandoning her.
So they can't just leave. Bees that do that in the while travel as a colony in what's called a swarm (which is actually very docile because they have no hive to defend). A bee that gets separated from its colony dies.
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Not a vegan.
Honey is a direct animal product. It is meant to feed them, much like milk feeds other cows.
I don't get how that's even arguable. I don't care what you do and don't eat, vegans, but honey is definitely an animal product. It's not a product of flowers, it's a product of bees. Veganism/vegetarianism are both already series of arbitrary lines drawn, though, so, whatever.
Also fish is meat, for those people out there. It's an animal, you're eating the animal: it's meat. You can be a vegetarian that eats fish, that's fine. You are all illogical to me. Morally right, rationally arbitrary and inconsistent and often hypocrites.
The arguments are usually that fish aren’t animals or more clearly insects aren’t animals, similar to how plants aren’t animals even if they react to damage. Very easy to argue.
I’ve seen arguments that whatever sentience fish may have, it’s too low level to be aware of pain. I don’t buy that but clearly fish have a simpler central nervous system than mammals. Also easy to argue.
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I'm not a vegan, but the current state of beekeeping is pretty shit. Taking the honey and replacing it with sugar water on top of the stresses of monoculture and killing varied flora with herbicides creating food deserts and using market conditions to race to the bottom on pollination contracts just results in a whole bunch of dead hives. Like you can both support sustainably practiced beekeeping and find the production of industrial honey to be a horror show.
Regardless of whether you are vegan, vegetarian, carnivore, or other, if you aren't horrified by industrial food production, you should be. This goes for industrial fish trawling & fish farming, industrial chicken cow and pig processing, honey I guess, even factory plant growing e.g. alfalfa almonds and corn (ruins the land and wastes water)
It's so pervasive it's hard to avoid everything.
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This is the correct response. Small-scale hobbyist beekeeping is awesome for humans, bees, and nature, and we absolutely positively need it. Industrial beekeeping, in which bees are carted across the continent to pollinate the fields of the highest paying industrial farmer may still be tolerable to the bee but far less so for nature. Many people don't appreciate the nuance. Apis mellifera almost certainly won't go extinct as long as beekeepers are around. But that's not what we talk about when we say the bees are dying...
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The whole debacle can be easily avoided by just eating the bees directly.
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The bees consent! Veganism is about consent! If a cow could say "Yeah, please take my milk" it would be vegan!
Theoretically domestic sheep wool is also vegan because theyll overheat and die if we dont shave them, and thus are probably pretty happy when we do and dont care what happens with it afterwards, but i dont think vegans are ready for that convo
Sheep wouldn't need shearing if we wouldn't breed them to grow more wool, and if we allowed them to live where they are native, instead of "farming" them e.g. in Australia.
Also I am pretty sure that those sheep get slaughtered after a couple of years, instead of being allowed a happy life.
But I don't think your cognitive dissonance is ready for that convo.
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Vegans fight amongst themselves all the time, and plenty of them have different rules.
For example, veganism doesn't extend just towards diet but animal products overall. A lot of people will only focus on the diet or certain animal products such as leather though.
Really wish people would just agree to do whatever they can, anything helps.
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