is honey vegan?

Question

okay, i have recently become vegitarian. so i read the weird vegitarian sight, it also talked about vegans.

a vegan is someone who dosent eat any animal products. no meat, no dairy, no animal skins, no animal fat. nothing that comes from a creature.

alot of people become vegan bcuzz they think that its wrong how the animals don't have the right to live, or be happy. they torture cows to get milk, so basicly the whole *great cheese comes from happy cows* is a totel lie. they also bcome vegans bcuzz its much healthier.

so, this leads me to my question.

is honey vegan? it comes from a creature, but i have seen vegan people eat honey. honey comes from bee's, but bee's are not animals.

i would think it would be vegan, it comes from a creature. and to get the honey they pretty much distroy the bee hive and take all the food. so is it vegan?

my friend says it is vegan, bcuzz a bee is not an animal.

so what? bugs don't have the right to be happy or live or have a home? but pigs and chickens and cows do? that can't be right.
if vegans bcome vegans out of love for animals, how can they eat honey? so agean, bugs can't be apart of that love?

well, i am pretty sure its NOT vegan. but then agean, i am not a vegan. i am just curius, i have been thinking about the whole honey thing for a week now. i don't plan on bcomming vegan though.

so, reply to this with what you think! go ask your vegan friends! i really wanna know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHG! this really is driving me crazy!

-madalyn

Answer 1

I personally see vegan as not eating anything that comes from a living creature, so honey is not vegan. However, some vegans do eat honey because they don't consider bees to be animals. Which I personally don't understand. It varies from person to person.

Answer 2

Is Honey Vegan

Answer 3

Honey is not vegan. It's weird to say that honey is ok because bees aren't animals -even though it's destructive to the bees, but milk isn't even though it's not very destructive to the cows. I'm not a vegan, not even a vegetarian, but a lot of my friends are. Which brings me to another thing- I'm told vegans can't eat gelatin, because they say it's made from horse hooves, but don't they synthesize that now?

Answer 4

It is a personal choice. My relative eats those little corn candies (which have honey) but avoids all other honey and dairy products. Considering the condition in which the honey is extracted from the bees I do not find it inhumane at all (compared to the castrating debeaking and drugging of factory farm animals). Whichever decision you shouldn't feel guilty. Good luck!

Answer 5

No, vegans don't eat honey because it's an animal product. A bee is an insect, but it's also a kind of animal.

Answer 6

A true vegan would not, since bees are animals and they produce honey.

Bees are clasified as in kingdom animalia, and therefore are animals. As strange as it may seem, even a sea sponge is an animal. Bees are not vertebrates, but are still animals.

And to those who say a vegan doesn't eat anything from a living creature...plants are living as well, and vegans eat them. If they didn't eat anything from any living creature they would pretty much be left with rocks and plastic. Vegans don't eat any animal product.

Answer 7

All the vegans I know won't eat honey because it comes from a living creature and the methods of getting honey are cruel. And my Buddhist friends agree that honey is probably more cruel than drinking milk since more bee lives are lost making it.

Edit: I should probably add that this is a question I love asking people to get their responses to it. Sometimes people draw the lines where they are comfortable with them being.

Answer 8

Hi, bees are animals. They are invertebrates and insects respectively. Honey is not vegan but a friend of mine says that vegans can use something called agave nectar which tastes identical to honey but does not come from animals.

Answer 9

im not vegan or vegitarian but you shouldnt be aloud to eat honey becasue if your gonna have a ***** fit about eating cheese n'stuff than honey is out of the question it comes from a living thing and thats the point in being vegan or vegitarian. if your gonna do it do it right.

Answer 10

Some vegans see it as an animal by product and bees do die after they make the honey, but some see it as bees HAVE to make honey, so it's there to eat.