Since honey is a byproduct, I am not harming bees if I take some honey.
Most bottled honey and any honey inside a product is from honey farms where the bees are manipulated and smoked to be docile workers. The queen bee’s wings are often clipped so she cannot fly anywhere. Because they are bred in massive scales, there is also a massive dying at the end of every season which we are funding by purchasing honey. It’s similar to the idea of milk or eggs or wool – though a byproduct, it still perpetuates an unjust system.
As for wild honey, the entire honey process is gross since the nectar is stored inside a bee’s tummy and then regurgitated back into the honey combs. Honey is bee vomit.
Bees gather honey for their own families and colony, not for humans. A bee can visit up to 10,000 flowers to make 1 teaspoon of honey. That’s like me going to a very far away grocery store to buy one week worth of food and then the next morning I see it’s all suddenly gone.
See video to better understand the negative impacts of the honey industry on bees and the environment
Topic: FAQ – Animals
