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- Nov 28, 2014
my biggest beef with vegans seems to be about honey. vegans say that honey is animal abuse, because it requires the work of bees and because bees can't consent it's exploitation. (I mean you can still exploit people who can consent, like in sweatshops but ok...)
BUT 2/3 of all vegetables, grains and fruit we eat needs insects as pollinators aka veggie farmes still have to exploit poor bees or otherwise there would be no plant-food either. so going by vegan logic, veggies aren't vegan either, because their production still requires the exploitation of animals.
Yeah, there's really nothing unethical about honey harvesting. The bees are just doing what they do naturally. And it's not like beekeepers steal all the honey, leaving the bees to starve; they always leave enough for the hive to live off of. There's no benefit to letting all your bees starve to death just so you can get a little more honey.
I have no idea why vegans feel like they need to lie to make their point. There are already valid health, economics, and morality-based arguments for not eating meat (I mean, I don't buy into them, but they seem like they have some points), why would you poison your own well by making up cartoonish bullshit like this?
It reminds me of that hilarious poster PETA made about how eeeeeevil we all are for using wool: