are all vegans against exploiting of animals?

Question

your vegatable plants are pollunated by bees, so are you not expoiting the bees?

Answer 1

You need to do something about this!!!!!!!

Think of all of the products on the market that have "vegan" on the label. Think of all of the restaurants that say that they serve "vegan" food. Please, defend the word "vegan" as best you can from this corruption.

You need to file lawsuits against all of these companies and businesses. When you have put all of them out of business and have made yourself rich from all of their court-ordered losses, please, come back here and tell us all about it.

You may also want to get in contact with The Vegan Society, the creators of the word "vegan", and let them know that they have been spreading the wrong definition since 1944. Tell them that if they do not put "100% animal-free" into their definition of a "vegan" you will sue them just like you did to Morningstar and Gardenburger.

http://www.vegansociety.com/phpws/index.php?module=faq&FAQ_op=view&FAQ_id=1

Good Luck =)

Answer 2

I am not vegan now, but when I was, I was simply under the impression that animal products were unhealthy and unnatural, too high up in the food chain, too much risk of disease, etc. So I thought all vegans were just eating for their health. The concept that all vegans are against exploiting animals is a little misleading...I care about animals as much as anyone, but I would shun cheese not because I don't want to harm a cow, but because it's disgusting to think of the process of how that cheese came to be.

As far as the bee pollination goes, I don't feel exploited when my pee gets flushed and goes back into the water system. Eew, now I lost my appetite.

Answer 3

Not really true. Bees, including the "captive bee" methods using the USA, account for less than 15% of agri-pollination.

Most decent growers do not use captive bees so the end user has no impact on wild bees, the farmers don't exploit them, all they end up doing is providing the bees with food, which is not exploitation

Many of us choose to leave margins in our fields. It provides natural environments for pollinators. and of course if we are part of the stewardship schemed we'll get a bit of a grant to allow this production land to be set-aside. This is not a grant for nothing, its a grant for loosing money on land we own, and to encourage us to protect the environment for everyone.

Answer 4

They're supposed to be but they practice it only up to the point where conveneince ends and actual sacrifice begins. A "vegan" is only a "vegan" to the point of doing the parts they want to do. None of the aspiring vegans here are doing anything that they don't want to do. Sacrificing is giving up something you don't want to give up. They don't do that. They give up to the convenience level and then it's definition of vegan be damned.

michael h, as usual, is inaccurate as almost all of the pollination process done commercially is done by captive hives of slave bees.

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

It is exploitation. But it would be inconvenient for an aspiring "vegan" to follow the actual definition of vegan and swear off of these products.

What's worse is most crops are fertilized with products from animal rendering plants. Again, it would be inconvenient for an aspiring "vegan" to swear off of those products because they'd actually have to put out an effort more than just driving to one store instead of another.

http://www.api4animals.org/articles?p=378&more=1

A true vegan would move/live somewhere temperate and grow their own food. It's the only way to ensure there has been no animal exploitation. But, that would be too inconvenient. That would be a sacrifice.

Answer 5

When bees pollinate plants, they get the materials and food necessary to make their honey (yep, honey is technically bee vomit). They will pollinate no matter what. Taking the honey and the beeswax is exploitation.

Answer 6

Some vegans are strictly dietary vegans. They would consume or wear things that many other vegans wouldn't- like sugar that is ground from animal bone or fur.

Answer 7

lol, they're not being exploited........bees will pollenate anyways.....animals are not ours for amusement, to eat, to experiment on, and wear

Answer 8

think about the poor plants that they kill all the time. think of the plants you save by eating that animal before he could eat more plants. eat a steak and save the world