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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Can you milk a bee? I didn't think so!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I want to learn Latin. I need better time management and less distration.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

Etymology, why learn one language when you can learn the foundation of all. And then you too can hate on the medical community for mixing Greek and Latin like it's fuckin vermouth and gin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago

Yep.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I appeal to the Director of Veganism!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Honey is a by-product of bees, the same way that all human made food is a by-products of humans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 33 minutes ago

Dude, language!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

so if I buy food from people I'm basically a cannibal

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I think it’s more accurate to think of you trapping humans in your basement and leaving them a bag of groceries every once in a while. Then you go down there and take whatever they cooked with the produce. They get to eat what they make, you just get the leftovers. They also can’t leave.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Actually if bees don't like the hive you put them in, they absolutely will leave. I haven't had happen to me personally but I have heard of it happening to others; you put the package in and come back to find that 200$+ worth of bees just upped and flew away.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This isn't true for the vast majority of commercial honey unfortunately. If you're buying it from the supermarket, or any producer that operates at even medium scale, they'll clip the wings of the queen so that the hive is unable to leave even if they want to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago)

And then they lose the hive anyway due to CCD or some nutrient deficiency that results from only consuming almond nectar.

[–] Unforeseen 1 points 2 hours ago

"Hive looks like someone put it together like a wasp.. 0/5 stars"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

So… capitalism?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

No under capitalism the owner gets everything what you make and they will reward you with just enough scraps to keep working.

Joking aside, bees technically have the freedom to escape captivity and leave their hive. I think that is a spot on comparison to how work and living in society is often made up to be a voluntary choice and we're free to go live elsewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Seems more akin to letting them milk themselves and collecting it from the fridge.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I don’t think so. Bees make honey for food. Humans drink their mother’s milk as babies, sure, but they don’t keep producing milk and storing it as food as a regular practice.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 hours ago (23 children)

Stupid discussion. It does not matter whether something is in the box "vegan". Ask yourself why you would or would not eat something. If you don't want to eat(/drink) dairy because of the way the animals that produce the dairy are treated, would you be ok when they are treated differently? Are bees treated in the same way? Does it matter if you treat them in this way? Those should be your questions, not "does it belong in this box?".

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