Apparently lots of people have no idea how bees work, or how honey is made. And they’ve made some weird assumptions about how it’s done. Just to be clear in case you don’t know, honey is made by bees collecting nectar from flowers, which they store in their honey stomachs and bring back to the hive. Inside the hive, they pass the nectar to other bees, who chew it and gradually reduce its water content, turning it into thick, sweet honey. Bees are not harmed during this natural process (which is covered further in this Harvesting Honey Does Not Hurt Bees post). Ethical beekeepers ensure that bees are left with enough honey to survive and avoid stressing or injuring them.
Veganism is a political movement based on a philosophy cobbled together by people who don’t care to actually understand the real functions of the natural world. It’s a philosophy based on romanticism with generous side-servings of moral superiority and righteous indignation, NOT on so much as a single fact about the natural world.
If the world turned vegan as they desire, we’d kill the planet in less than a century through use of mass synthetic fabrics to replace leather, mass-manufactured vitamin B12 to replace naturally-occurring, animal-derived cobalamin, wilful destruction of species that literally no longer live in the wild because we’ve domesticated them utterly, and the forcing of carnivores onto plant-based diets.
The sheer idiocy of this particular vegan only underscores the point: there is quite literally no thought going on in this one’s head. They’ve simply adopted a doctrine, and everything they see, they interpret as evidence for that doctrine. Never mind that it’s actually evidence for the exact opposite, of course, and that those of us who know the facts are laughing our asses off at the amount of stupid coming out of their cranium.
The smallest level of applied thought shows that veganism is a nonsense. Just a little more thought shows the chain of extinctions and pollutions that it must necessarily create in order to exist. Vegans can claim the reverse all they like – but the evidence is there for those who choose not to ignore it or explain it away. It’s a synthetic lifestyle, and it carries all of the problems of such – petrochemical pollution, massive waste and redundancy, and violent disruption of society and the social order.
Vegans are generally hated for a very good reason – in the main, they’re arrogant, opinionated, vicious cretins who go out of their way to attack others who are just trying to live their lives and buy or consume nutritious food. Meat eaters don’t picket vegetarian or vegan restaurants, or harass people in the vegetable section of the supermarket. But oh boy, vegans are always trying to do that to meat-serving restaurants and the meat aisles in the supermarket. And then they have the affrontery to accuse others of aggression when they get thumped for their disgraceful behaviour!