• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    Any that’s the hypocrisy of Vegans. Milk and honey are the only two animal-based food sources that don’t involve the killing of animals. And in the case of most cow breeds, milking is actually needed as they have been bred to produce far more milk than their calves drink. And with careful management of the hive, you can harvest a lot of honey from a mature hive without negatively affecting the hive itself - it just delays/defers new queen production and swarming, which is desirable anyhow - no beekeeper who has hives primarily for crop pollination wants to have hives swarming each and every year.

    • PixeIOrange@lemmy.world
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      25 minutes ago

      Milk and Honey involve absolutely killing animals. For milk the “excess” bulls are being killed. Not to mention the rape to get the cows pregnant for them to produce milk. Maybe we shouldnt breed animals that suffer at all. The bee hives get sugary water instead of their honey, this weakens the hive since its obvisiously unhealthy for the bees. Also the honey bees suppress other natural bees, that are neccessary for many plants since the honey bee doesnt pollinate every plant.

      Maybe we should just let the animals alone. We dont need them for food.

    • bitchkat@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Eggs? Even if you count “fertilized” as being an animal, the vast majority of eggs aren’t fertilized.

      • PixeIOrange@lemmy.world
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        22 minutes ago

        Ever heard of chick shredding? We need far more hens than roosters, so the males get shredded.