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The secret ingredient that turns nectar into honey is bee ?spit.?

Chemicals in the bees? saliva help change the nectar into sugars.

The nectar/saliva mixture is then stored in the beeswax comb by the workers.


Source:- http://oklahoma4h.okstate.edu/aitc/lessons/extras/facts/honey.html


DulwichFox

I heard someone on the radio say this morning, 'Well, I've never heard a carrot scream'. Rather arrogant to assume that because it doesn't register to our limited range of senses, it can't exist. According to some Buddhists, at a microbiological level, a salad sandwich is carnage (vegage?).


On the Food Prog on R4 this week it was said that mushrooms are somewhere between animal and vegetable, which is thought-provoking.

El Pibe Wrote:

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> so if humans were to go around gathering pollen

> and turning it honey would that be allowed? Do

> *we* count as animals?


I guess a less absurd example might be breastfeeding - which vegans usually think is OK, presumably because it's voluntary.

Jeremy Wrote:

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> El Pibe Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > so if humans were to go around gathering pollen

> > and turning it honey would that be allowed? Do

> > *we* count as animals?

>

> I guess a less absurd example might be

> breastfeeding - which vegans usually think is OK,

> presumably because it's voluntary.


How is breastfeeding remotely absurd? You've lost me.

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