Without looking it up I can confidently tell you that bee free honey isn’t about “avoiding ecological collapse affecting a product,” it’s about vegans giving waaaay too much of a shit about bees to the point that honey is “not vegan”
i like to give people the benefit of the doubt. sure there’s a specific kind of environmentally concerned person who will create ineffectual solutions to non-problems because they either don’t actually know about the animal or they are just gritting but I try to hear it from the horse’s mouth before I assume it’s entirely unhelpful
all I have to go on are the local beekeepers I’ve met and they’re a far different operation from what I imagine wholesale honey industry looks like. it could be as wide of a gap between the ethics of sustenance livestock vs industrial but I don’t know
Without looking it up I can confidently tell you that bee free honey isn’t about “avoiding ecological collapse affecting a product,” it’s about vegans giving waaaay too much of a shit about bees to the point that honey is “not vegan”
i like to give people the benefit of the doubt. sure there’s a specific kind of environmentally concerned person who will create ineffectual solutions to non-problems because they either don’t actually know about the animal or they are just gritting but I try to hear it from the horse’s mouth before I assume it’s entirely unhelpful
all I have to go on are the local beekeepers I’ve met and they’re a far different operation from what I imagine wholesale honey industry looks like. it could be as wide of a gap between the ethics of sustenance livestock vs industrial but I don’t know