bee is not an animal, how come vegans won't eat honey, I don't understand this at all, honey is healthy, anyone know? is it because bee is an animal? bee come from animal by-product?
2007-01-03 03:51:52 · 26 answers · asked by karl s 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Lots of good answers about why vegans don't use honey along with the usual group of ignorant insecure trolls that have such a lousy life that they have time to come here to bash vegheads.
On a *constructive* note I'd like to point out that Agave Nectar is readily available, uses/abuses no animals at all, and is almost the same as honey except that there are not worries of botulism spores or other frequent contaminants of honey
2007-01-03 04:56:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
There is a fake Honey made from Lucust Bean gum! I know some extremist Vegans won't even use that. Well honey is made from bees not a plant. Honey isn't a plant product it's made by the bees a critter vegans consider to be an animal! Locust Bean Gum Honey is almost as good as the real thing but extremely expensive.. so I'm a vegetarian not a vegan but I do have some vegan friends!
Happy New Year!
2007-01-03 04:48:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vegans don't eat honey because they believe that as bees are the ones that make the honey they are the ones that should eat it. Bees need honey for survival. Humans should not steal the product of all the bees' hard work. Humans are brought up to think for themselves and be original and never steal. This same practice is used not just for other humans but for bees too. Vegans believe that all animals are equal and that humans are not better than any other animal. Therefore principles that are set for other humans should also be practiced for other animals, also.
2007-01-03 04:02:27 · answer #3 · answered by vcperani 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
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.
Bees are animaals and honey making 'enslaves' the bees to a life of serventry. They may die in thier captive man made boxes or thru traveling in trucks(the bees often get shipped around).
honey is not the only product of bee exploitation. The following are other bee products to watch out for:
Bee venom is obtained when the bee stings someone or something. The bee dies if she stings someone.
Bee pollen is pollen collected by bees. It also contains some nectar and bee saliva. It is popular because humans cannot collect such a wide variety of pollen.
Royal jelly is the nutritious food (for bees) fed only to the queen. It literally makes workers into queens.
Beeswax is secreted by bees to build their hives.
Propolis is plant resin collected by bees and mixed with enzymes. It is used around the hive as glue and as an antiseptic.
Bee brood are bees that are not fully developed. Not even vegetarian.
I personally love honey & will continue to eat it ( I'm not vegan/vegitarian but am opposed to mistreatment of food animals).
2007-01-03 04:01:27 · answer #4 · answered by isis 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
A bee is certainly an animal. Some vegans do in fact eat honey, since honey itself is produced from flower nectar. Others argue that since honey is produced by bees for bees that humans have no right to steal another animal's food. This argument could also be applied to anything we eat so I am not sure if it is completely valid.
2007-01-03 03:55:30 · answer #5 · answered by Huey from Ohio 4 · 7⤊ 2⤋
I always consider it ironic that vegans step on bugs and numerous bugs get smashed on their windshields but will not eat honey which is from a bee but the bee is not killed in the process.
2007-01-03 10:52:19 · answer #6 · answered by Half-pint 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A bee is very much an animal. Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by honeybees from the nectar of flowers
2007-01-03 03:55:52 · answer #7 · answered by djessellis 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
maximum vegans agree that any product produced promptly from taking something from organic approaches is an abuse via people in the direction of animals. with out the would desire to offer honey, human beings would not shop bees in captivity interior the 1st place and to that end they might fly unfastened and be chuffed in nature. Taking the honey made from bee-keepers is merely perpetuating the "choose" to maintain the bees as they do. If it have been produced yet in a distinctive way, i think of Vegans could consume it, barring any inorganic components or, of direction, option animal components for production. My pal is a vegan, and in spite of the organic and valuable reasoning at the back of sheering sheep interior the summertime for the production of wool, she refuses to positioned on wool because of the fact "sheep should not be in captivity interior the 1st place." comparable with leather-based soled shoes or something like that. something that consists of something that's no longer leaving animals to their organic lives has a tendency to be a undertaking of negativity for Vegans. No offense meant to any Vegans, of direction.
2016-10-06 09:23:23 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some vegans would consider that stealing the animals food/goods and that is a no no to a true vegan.
2007-01-03 06:10:35 · answer #9 · answered by Ang 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a animal by-product and vegans don't eat anything from an animal.
2007-01-03 04:09:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋