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Is Honey vegan?

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  • #32
    An Ri rua
    Registered Users Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    beveragelady wrote: »
    My honey bees are wild bees.
    Native Irish black bees. I bought one nuc of native black bees, the other hives are inhabited by swarms that found their own way here and are more than happy with the accommodation.

    Fair dues to you. It's a wonderful vocation. My late father got into bees when in his late 50s. Marvellous creatures.
    They don't milk as well as the good old Bumblebee though :D


  • #33
    TheBoyConor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭TheBoyConor


    Worztron wrote: »

    As the newphew of an avid bee keeper, having regularly helped him over the years I have to say that the above is an absolute load of hyperbolic propaganda bullhshít.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Bumblebees were discovered to be excellent pollinators of tomatoes by a Dutch man, so yes people do use them.


  • #35
    Str8outtaWuhan
    Registered Users Posts: 968 ✭✭✭Str8outtaWuhan


    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    How are figs made? I thought they just grow on tree's...Or are they like Almonds requiring massive amounts of bee's to pollinate
    fig wasp pollinates female fig plant and dies inside the fig. fig then dissolves the body, mostly....


  • #36
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,664 ✭✭✭Worztron


    TheBoyConor wrote: »
    As the newphew of an avid bee keeper, having regularly helped him over the years I have to say that the above is an absolute load of hyperbolic propaganda bullhshít.

    Nice anecdote. Your aunt/uncle is clearly not representative of the entire honey industry.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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  • #37
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Worztron wrote: »
    Nice anecdote. Your aunt/uncle is clearly not representative of the entire honey industry.

    Why the putting down of a poster giving their own personal experience?

    The point is that video is certainly
    not representative of the 'entire' honey industry either

    Like most of that type of bs slick propaganda tbh ...

    Like it or not the fact is that many many commercial crops are heavily dependent on the use of bees.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/would-we-starve-without-bees/zkf292p


    Rogue operations should never be a reason to beat everyone with the same stick.


  • #38
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,664 ✭✭✭Worztron


    gozunda wrote: »
    Why the putting down of a poster giving their own personal experience?

    The point is that video is certainly
    not representative of the 'entire' honey industry either

    Like most of that type of bs slick propaganda tbh ...

    Like it or not the fact is that many many commercial crops are heavily dependent on the use of bees.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/would-we-starve-without-bees/zkf292p


    Rogue operations should never be a reason to beat everyone with the same stick.

    I didn't put them down. We can disagree on the points. No surprise there then. ;-)

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #39
    TheKBizzle
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 494 Mod ✭✭✭✭TheKBizzle


    Lots of vegans I know eat honey.

    Things like avocados and butternut squash are not technically vegan as they use migratory beekeeping where bees are transported to pollinate crops, I think kiwis and almonds too so depends on how strict you are


  • #40
    lsjmhar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭lsjmhar


    You can use honey if you stop being vegan!


  • #41
    auspicious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,497 ✭✭✭auspicious


    TheKBizzle wrote: »
    Lots of vegans I know eat honey.

    Things like avocados and butternut squash are not technically vegan as they use migratory beekeeping where bees are transported to pollinate crops, I think kiwis and almonds too so depends on how strict you are

    I'm not a total purist( as in for example, don't mind eating vegan food, say, cooked on a surface which cooked meat). Hate on me or educate me but I'm not sure about the finer details of this. I haven't really researched it. I don't use honey but I think it's okay to use them to pollinate. Once bees are not neglectfully harmed and their food source isn't taken, I'm okay.
    I'd like to hear opinions.


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