Can vegetarians eat honey? Can vegans eat honey?
Honey is an animal product. Can vegetarians and/or vegans eat milk or cheese, yogurt, or milk chocolate? Bees "make" honey out of vegetable matter just as cows "make" milk out of grass.
I don't know if vegans or vegetarians are health conscious or more concerned with treating animals ethically. If ethics are their schtick then aren't diary cows treated like slaves, like chickens, like pigs, like circus elephants? Are not bees exploited and kept mostly prisoners in commercially owned hives, which are moved around for rent by bee keepers to commercial farms because they are biologically required to pollinate plant life, which is then consumed by vegetarians, vegans, and Earthling Humans? I honestly don't know their position on the animal product honey, but would like to know.
Okay, I can appreciate that people eschew leather, feathers, suede, parchment, skin and fur, but if you are an animal lover, and you have a pet Canine-American or a pet Feline-American, isn't it animal abuse to deprive a carnivore of meat?
If ethics is the rationale to not eat meat then doesn't harvesting one's own meat by hunting game trump the reason? Is it cruel to cull the herds of overpopulating animals damaged by the natural and man-made diminution of their natural habitats, the introduction of alien life forms that "steal" their food supply or parasite on our friendly animal treasure? Is hunting unethical? Fishing? Or does it depend on the method of fishing? An aboriginal spear or bow and arrow would be approved but a net, a cruelly-barbed fish hook, or a stick of dynamite like they use off a rowboat in Lebanon to fish would be disfavored?
Considering the Bible, I think eating honey and animals is perfectly holy. John the Baptist ate both.
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