Why vegans do not eat what bees produce?

It traded between about 250,000 and 300,000 tons of honey in the world, and actually occurs twice that amount. There are six main world producers of honey: China, USA, Mexico, Argentina, Canada, and Germany.

Each bee flies about 800 km in his working life and produces only half a teaspoon of honey. A queen can produce half a million eggs in her natural life cycle. However, only two years left to live in the commercial world producing 150,000 eggs per year. In calm conditions the worker bee flies at 24 miles per hour and up to 40 km for short periods of time, and works for 7-10 hours daily.

Some people ask us why vegans do not eat honey, they believe that the collection of honey and pollen frustrates their fundamental interests, or do not believe that the bees have the capacity to feel pain.

Vegan Answer
Beekeeping explodes and kills bees. We can live healthily without eating honey, thus respecting the bees, which is humanly taste value.

The bees have ability to feel pain, and therefore the interest of not suffer. Bees are insects and insects belong to the animal kingdom. Although the nervous system of insects, arachnids, etc.. is more rudimentary than that of other animal species evolutionarily superior, also feel. Studies of this are:

- In March 2010, the journal Nature published a study in which researchers from Brandeis University in Waltham (USA), directed Paul A. Garrity, discovered in flies and mosquitoes ancestral molecular mechanism associated with the pain they share with humans. The results shed light on the evolutionary origins of pain sensation. The study shows that the TRPA1 ion channel protein helps neurons like insects to detect harmful chemicals. TRPA1 is involved in the human response to pain to such irritants, suggesting that this molecular mechanism is not specific to vertebrates. According to the researchers, unlike other chemical senses such as smell or taste, it seems that human detection of irritants lies a chemical sensor conserved ancestral molecular level over 500 million years of evolution.

The bees were subjected to electric shocks to produce a bite. Discovered that need a higher voltage to produce a bite by bees that had been exposed to IPA and therefore had their natural analgesic system activated, compared with bees that had not been exposed. The response also increased with the amount of IPA was exposed to the bees. Moreover, if the bees were exposed to IPA and naloxone (which blocks the opioid system), the effect was completely offset IPA and bees stinging continued even at a higher discharge.

This explains the results of the study of Balderrama et al., Who tried to discover whether Africanized bees were more aggressive than European honeybees. They found that the Africanized responded with fewer bites than European to the same stimulus. However, this is not due to the less aggressive European, but rather to have a pain response system more effective. That is, the pain system than bees behavior relates to threats.

It discriminates morally, other sentient individuals (speciesism)
Many people sometimes accuse vegans of extremists or crazy for trying to defend and protect up the smallest animal life.

People give the sample of the face more faithful to speciesism when only shows interest, (and in some cases not even that) just for your favorite pet, for your dog or cat, etc. Showing a terrible apathy any other animal nature. It also shows his confusion when we say we do not use WOOL, SILK, DYES, nor kill ANTS or do not consume the "fabulous" HONEY. And it is the latter that we have to report now.

All animals deserve respect, because they are sentient beings who are in this world for their own and for their own interests, not to be "used" for humanity. Bees are not the exception to the rule, their small sizes are not a reason to exclude them from respect or defend reason not as much as a cow or a cat lab.

Bees are manipulated to obtain many products for human use, honey, wax, propolis, pollen, royal jelly, and venom. They are intelligent insects that have been described as having a complex communication systems.

No need to eat honey to be healthy and strong
There are many natural sweeteners can be used in place of honey brown sugar, fructose, maple syrup, fruit juice concentrates, molasses, malt extracts, syrups (agave, maple, etc..)

Honey consumption involves animal exploitation
Because you see the bees fly freely, they are also usually considered free of the usual cruelties of the livestock industry. However, bees are mostly treated just like any other farm animal. They are subjected to routine tests and handling, artificial feeding regimes, drug and pesticide treatment, genetic manipulation, artificial insemination, transportation (air, rail and road) and sacrifice.

Transport

There bees buying and selling worldwide. Your transport implies that bees suffer stress, suffocation, overheating, or cold. Many perish buried in coffins are their packages.

Bees crushed when handling the panels

When beekeepers manipulate combs many bees die crushed. Often, the hives are sprayed with smoke to calm the bees and easier handling. Locks are placed or special devices which violate bee space to collect the products as they enter the hive. It separates the bees from their hives by shaking vigorously or expelling with powerful air currents. You may end up with legs or wings clipped.


Theft of honey and feeding of worst quality

Honey bees produce it for themselves, therefore, take it is to steal what they have produced by their hard work.

Beekeepers usually feed their colonies with artificial substitutes for pollen and white sugar syrup, honey usually to replace stolen them. If these practices are carried out over long time periods are reducing productivity and longevity of the hive. The colonies should be fed with its own natural food - honey and pollen - producing bees born with larger and more vigorous.

Queen bee wings are cut

Cut the wings to avoid swarming queens and go flying. Swarming is the natural form of reproduction growth and survival of the species, at least in the wild. However, beekeepers are constantly trying to avoid this natural phenomenon using artificial pheromones and cutting off their wings to maintain their colony under control.

The Queen is murdered. (Hive orphan)

In the production of honey, usually artificially inseminated queen bees with sperm obtained from decapitated male. Queens are systematically sacrificed every two years because after a period of time the egg production capacity decreases, so that the whole hive is unproductive and not profitable. In Israel the kill and renewed every year. So beekeepers explain:

1) You have to kill the old queen to be replaced. This can be crushing with fingers and then leave it on the floor of the hive, just below the lower slats frames.

2) If you have not fertilized queen hive that swarmed or because they experienced a replacement, you must locate and kill the virgin queen.

3) ALL need to destroy queen cells (capped or opercular) that are present in the hive. To this end, it is shaking the bees from the frames inside the hive to see if in some corner or hidden for some honeycomb building us some actual cell unnoticed. To destroy any queen cells that may be present, we decrease significantly the chances that worker bees develop orphan preference unborn cells rather than fertilized queen cage just introduced.

4) After killing the queen is going to be replaced and have destroyed all the real cells that may have, leave the hive 48 hours in complete horfandad without doing any manipulation of it. "

Use of pesticides and antibiotics

Beekeepers have become dependent on the use of synthetic pesticides and antibiotics to combat pests, and this has led to problems for both toxicological beekeepers themselves to bees and risks of contamination of honey.

Now it appears that the trend is to replace the use of pesticides by antibiotics with the bees.