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Honey is not vegan. If it comes from an animal, it’s not vegan. Bees are a part of the animal kingdom. Therefore, any byproduct from a bee is not vegan. Raw honey, organic honey, free range honey, whatever you want to call it, it’s still not vegan. To say it is a waste not to use their byproducts contributes to the objectification of animals, and perpetuates the myth that’s it is okay to use them for ourselves. They exist for their own reasons. If it comes from an animal = not vegan. By definition, animal products that are not flesh are considered “vegetarian.” I’m not the vegan messiah. Yes, this is my blog, but what I’m saying isn’t anything new. You may not like what I have to say all the time, but I will not alter facts to make a point. I’m going to use Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness” to describe what’s going on here. “The quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.” The arguments in favor of honey as somehow being vegan, sounds a lot like the arguments I hear omnivores justifying the consumption of animal products. For example, take the sentence, “I eat the eggs from my chicken farm. We treat our chickens with kindness and their eggs are organic.” Not vegan, right? Right. Okay, now replace the word “eggs” with “honey” and “chicken” with “bee.” Does that scenario change because the species of animal changed? No. Still not vegan. Bees are an essential part of life. We need to leave bees alone and let them pollinate as they would naturally. However, this fact does not somehow make the consumption of bee byproducts as “vegan.” Bees produce honey by swallowing nectar into their crop, regurgitate it, add enzymes (spit), chew, swallow and repeat many times. Eating their honey is not “supporting the bees.” Now, I’m not going to go around pointing fingered saying “you’re not vegan enough!” However, I will not go along with the idea that honey is somehow vegan. It’s not. All I’m saying is that honey is not vegan. #vegansofIG http://instagram.com/p/QVJ6qlmiWt

Honey is not vegan. If it comes from an animal, it’s not vegan.

Bees are a part of the animal kingdom. Therefore, any byproduct from a bee is not vegan. Raw honey, organic honey, free range honey, whatever you want to call it, it’s still not vegan. To say it is a waste not to use their byproducts contributes to the objectification of animals, and perpetuates the myth that’s it is okay to use them for ourselves. They exist for their own reasons.

If it comes from an animal = not vegan. By definition, animal products that are not flesh are considered “vegetarian.”

I’m not the vegan messiah. Yes, this is my blog, but what I’m saying isn’t anything new. You may not like what I have to say all the time, but I will not alter facts to make a point. I’m going to use Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness” to describe what’s going on here. “The quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.”

The arguments in favor of honey as somehow being vegan, sounds a lot like the arguments I hear omnivores justifying the consumption of animal products. For example, take the sentence, “I eat the eggs from my chicken farm. We treat our chickens with kindness and their eggs are organic.” Not vegan, right? Right. Okay, now replace the word “eggs” with “honey” and “chicken” with “bee.” Does that scenario change because the species of animal changed? No. Still not vegan.

Bees are an essential part of life. We need to leave bees alone and let them pollinate as they would naturally. However, this fact does not somehow make the consumption of bee byproducts as “vegan.” Bees produce honey by swallowing nectar into their crop, regurgitate it, add enzymes (spit), chew, swallow and repeat many times.

Eating their honey is not “supporting the bees.” Now, I’m not going to go around pointing fingered saying “you’re not vegan enough!” However, I will not go along with the idea that honey is somehow vegan. It’s not. All I’m saying is that honey is not vegan. #vegansofIG

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    Yes, honey is not vegan, people!