• guy@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    A quick web search tells me that bees don’t die when harvesting honey, unless you take more than they need to survive, too often and are careless when harvesting?

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        6 days ago

        “i’ve invented a reason to dismiss what you posted and decided that’s a good enough reason not to think about it any further”

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        5 days ago

        Well I tried to avoid sites which could be biased like beekeapersagainstvegans and honeyismurder, and this is the conclusion I could make. 🤷 What more do you want me to do, start my own honey farm and see what works and not?

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      I’m don’t know much about beekeeping, but I could easily see large scale industry doing exactly that. I would have a hard time trusting them to be careful of the bees’ livelihood. It seems like if the farmers are actually careful the bees should be ok though

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        6 days ago

        Me neither lol. But if there’s ethical consumption there’s no need to abstain from all right?