Do vegans eat honey?

Answer 1

technically, they shouldn't. but this is usually the fascist vegans that have this thought. most do however.

Answer 2

No, as far as i'm aware harvesting honey involved killing some of the bees, including the queen.

And i think also that vegans do not eat any animal related foodstuffs, even if the animal is free to roam and doesn't die ( milk, eggs, honey etc )

In my opinion, it seems to be a moral issues and belief that animals are not, in any way, part of the food chain.

More kudos to them !

Answer 3

Why Honey is Not Vegan

(I only put the beginning of the essay here, as it is too long to paste the whole essay. Please click on the link below to read everything)

This essay explains why most vegans do not eat honey. It also attempts to convince all vegans not to eat honey. If you are unfamiliar with veganism, please read Why Vegan.
By Definition

The simplest reason why honey isn't vegan is by definition. The term vegan was coined by Donald Watson in 1944 and was defined as follows:

Veganism is a way of living which excludes all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, the animal kingdom, and includes a reverence for life. It applies to the practice of living on the products of the plant kingdom to the exclusion of flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, honey, animal milk and its derivatives, and encourages the use of alternatives for all commodities derived wholly or in part from animals (Stepaniak).

Health and environmental "vegans" please take note.

But we don't need to go back to 1944 to define honey as not vegan--any definition of veganism would talk about reducing animal suffering, and honeybees (Apis mellifera) Click for a picture of a honeybee. are, without a doubt, animals. Do vegans only care about the phyla "above" Arthropoda (the one bees are in)? No, Arthropoda includes lobster and crabs. Let's try the crustaceans and everything above Arthropoda? Sadly, that leaves the earthworms vulnerable to dissection in biology classes. Also, scallops, snails, and oysters are fair game--they are not as "high up" on the evolutionary scale as bees. James and Carol Gould (respectively, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and a full-time science writer) point out that "Honey bees are at the top of their part of the evolutionary tree, whereas humans are the most highly evolves species on our branch. To look at honeybees, then, is to see one of the two most elegant solutions to the challenges of life on our planet. More interesting, perhaps, than the many differences are the countless eerie parallels--convergent evolutionary answers to similar problems" (Gould, x). Of course, all this talk of higher and lower is complete fiction. Even Darwin reminded himself to "Never use the words higher and lower

Answer 4

I know a vegan that owns bees and produces honey as well as products made from honey (face lotions, lip gels etc.)

Answer 5

No, because it is a product of animals, who are assembled and herded purely for their honey-making abilities. It is cruel and unfair to ask them to make honey just for human consumption, so only the most politically-correct, best, and most conscientious vegans avoid it.

Answer 6

No..they don't. They do not eat anything that came from any animal and honey comes from bees.

Answer 7

Honey is an animal prodcut, but I think that they do.

Answer 8

No they don't but that's okay because then I have more honey to make mead with. Yum!

Answer 9

No, they don't ! I just thought that this was purely because it came from animals BUT apparently according to my answer friend on here they ACTUALLY kill the bees!!!

Answer 10

They do not. Honey has bee excrement in it.