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I mean there are bees vomiting. Bees do spin around. And there is a centrifuge. This is pretty close to true.
No one can be that ignorant. Of course they are milked
From their boo-bees?
They just clip the wings of the queen so it’s functionally impossible for the bees to leave.
And replace the honey with sugar water and they become deficient. And also they outcompete native bee populations, causing naturally occuring pollinators to decline
That’s shitty. I wonder how common this is for non-factory beekeeping, I can think of several ways this could cause significant problems for the bees above and beyond the obvious one.
As someone who has worked with bees, not common. Most beekeepers should be keeping the queen there by maintaining the correct amount of honey store for hive size. There are queen excluder boxes you can use to protect/encourage new queens to storm, etc etc etc
I’d never heard of wing clipping. That would be terrible. I’m frankly against using smoke with bees and have worked with a few people who also feel the same way. Buy local
I’m frankly against using smoke with bees and have worked with a few people who also feel the same way. Buy local
I feel like buying local is good for various other reasons, but that it doesn’t necessarily guarantee better beekeeping practices. Maybe there ought to be some kind of “humane beekeeping” certification program.
I agree there should be, but I more was thinking farmers market where you can just ask
Yes, it is shitty. So are most things we do to other creatures on earth to prioritize our own survival and well being.
It was only somewhat recently in human history that we’ve moved past the point of needing these systems to survive. Now things like veganism have few to little downsides, except that we’re entrenched in the way we used to do things.
we can’t even be not-shitty to each other
Honey bees are rarely native to where they are kept. They are livestock. Clipping the queen both improves honey production and prevents the swarm from resettling elsewhere and displacing local pollinators.
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veganism have dew
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It’s funny how people can believe something like that despite there being a thing called “the Internet” where you can easily look up stuff (and where they made that comment). They get some points for caring about bees, though.
For example, some people believed this post.
People pay to ride a tilt-a whirl. Let the bees have their fun.
Confidentiality?
Confidently corrected
I suspect that was part of the joke
Doesn’t really make sense though. I assume autocorrect
Mhm Bee vomit.
The only case where it does tastes better coming out than going in.
If only that was the reality and not that they decimate the native pollinator population causing massive problems and serious implications for the future
All that, plus honey is just kinda mid. Like, most people just eat it because it seems “healthier” than pure sugar, but nutritionally there’s very little difference (yes, honey is good at killing bacteria and fungi, but that doesn’t really matter when you digest it). Just replacing it with Agave Syrup is barely an inconvenience and solves so many environmental problems.
Calls honey mid and unsustainable, supports agave syrup in the same breath. Moving the environmental problems from your neighborhood to Oaxaca is not solving them.
Wait then how DO they make honey?
Well they do vomit it, just without human assistance. FWIW though, a honeybee produces about a single teaspoon in its whole life, and also tame honeybee colonies tend to psuh out natural honeybee populations, so whether it’s ethical to eat honey or not is a fair question.
FWIW though, a honeybee produces about a single teaspoon in its whole life
Keep in mind though that a honey bee worker only has a working lifespan of a few weeks (though they can survive for months if born during the cold off seasons where they stay huddled in the hive), and each hive has between 40,000 and 80,000 bees. Kept hives also don’t need as much of the honey they produce since the beekeeper can control for climate, colony size, and other factors that increase consumption.
Pushing out native bees is definitely a major problem, I agree on that, though beekeepers should be managing their colonies to prevent them from splitting and creating new hives.
Unless you’re in Eurasia, the natural populations aren’t honeybees.
No that’s Minions right?
I’d love to hear them explain what series of events led to that discovery
They most likely found out about honey extractors (spins uncapped honey frames around very fast to extract honey from the comb) without knowing about how honey extractors actually work (they are spun after the bees have been removed).
TIL about centrifugal honey extractors
The source of most of my bee knowledge:
