Immediate Answer Needed: Does Honey qualify as an Animal Product??

Question

Hey. I am Chirstian, and as you know, this is the Lent season. I am fasting from all animal products and I need to know if honey is considered an animal product. Please give me an answer with a little explanation. Thanks. God Bless All.

Answer 1

Ok, by product do you mean like made from animals? Then the answer is no.

Honey is actually the only product made by an animal (excluding human). It is also what you might call bee barf. The animals do this naturaly and are not harmed in the process used to remove it from their hives. If you can get organic honey from your region it could even have good health benifits to you.

If you go with the rational of some of these people you can rationalize yourself to death. ALL food is produced by humans even stuff you plant and grow yourself has been cultivated throughout time. So that leaves you with water and...

Answer 2

Honey is considered medicinal product from bees, Take care of buying honey because now a days there are fake honey products which are made from sugar only not really came from bee

Answer 3

Yes, honey is an animal product. Bees are living things, I don't get how some folks think that insects are not animals. Milk is an animal product, unless you drink soy milk, which comes from soy beans, which is a plant....if you can stand the stuff.
Oh, yeah, and fish are also animals.

Answer 4

John,
NO it is not an animal product. It was created by a bee which is a bug. Not an animal. I have no idea why these people think that a poor little honey bee is an animal but my biology teacher would have a COW! The vegans might have a problem with it but I certainly don't know why they would. Have a great "lent season" and a wonderful week.
Eds

Answer 5

Wow. Whoever says bees aren't animals needs to go back to 4th grade science.

Catholics are a bit screwed up in what they consider animals, in my opinion. Fish? Yes, fish are animals. Insects are animals. Arachnids are animals. All that stuff.

Bees produce honey, bees are animals, honey is an animal product.

Answer 6

Yes. It is made by animals, from animals in a way, and is therefore an animal product.

The bee ingests the nectar of flowers in the process of making honey. There is no bee in the honey, though.

http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/animalproducts/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey

Edit - um, a bee IS an animal, as are other bugs.

OK a small science lesson is in order apparently. Eds, your biology teacher would indeed have a cow.

You have Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

A honey bee is as follows -

Domain - Eukaryota
Kingdom - ANIMALIA (<--- ding ding ding)
Phylum - Anthrpoda
Class - Insecta
Order - Hymenoptera
Family - Apidae
Genus - Apis
Species - One of several

Answer 7

From Wikipedia (for what it's worth):

Most vegans consider honey to be an animal product and avoid using it, instead choosing sweetening alternatives such as agave nectar, rice syrup or stevia.

For those saying that bees "aren't an animal" - so you think they're what... vegetable, mineral, or fungus?

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/path/Apis_mellifera.html

Answer 8

Honey is not an animal product. It is made from pollen from various plants and is processed by a honey bee to be used as food for their young. I know this may sound gross but it could be compared to eating a cow's spit.

Answer 9

Yes, honey counts as an animal product. The bees produce it, to use it is akin to stealing from them. There are many vegetarians who won't touch it for that reason.

Answer 10

No.
Only products derived from animals with a backbone are forbidden during Lent.

Of course honey is an 'animal product' - the question is about Lenten regulations. Sheesh.