Awaken Me: Guide To Veganism

Education: Honey

Many people will argue if honey is vegan or not, but the truth is... It's not.

The bees will not die if vegans don't support the honey industry, this is just as crazy as thinking all the cows will go extinct if you don't eat meat. The honey industry is different from the commercial bee industry. The commercial bees go around the country and pollinate, farmers pay the bee keepers to bring the bees. The honey industry produces honey to sell to the public.

Commercial bees and wild bees are the main pollinators, they do all the hard work of pollinating the plant crops that us vegans so dearly love.

But honey industry bees are commonly fed sugar water (mixture of sugar and water) the bees can still make honey out of this but it offers them no nutrients unlike pollen. Many people believe this is what causes colony collapse disorder as well as taking away the hard worked for honey scaring the bees that then have to rush before winter to make more.

Wax is often took from hives as well making the bees have to work harder to make more. The wax is often used in candles or makeup products, but there is vegan alternatives.

Queen bees are often artificially inseminated in order to increase amount of bees thus increasing amount of honey thus increasing profit.

In order for the queen to be artificially inseminated a male bee must be squished to death to collect sperm.

The queen bee is then often shipped in the mail and has her wings are cut when she arrives so she can't fly away.

We have no need for honey therefore there is no excuse to be doing this to the bees. Their honey is their food not ours. We have all the wonderful plants they helped produce by pollination.

FYI honey is actually bee vomit. Bees regurgitate pollen at least 50 times for it to turn into honey.