Do vegans eat honey

[Chick]

I asked a vegan if they ate honey and was surprised when she said ?no, they (bees) mix it with saliva?. I am not sure that is true but I find it weird that any one wouldn?t eat honey for moral reasons.

I doubt bees produce saliva.

[Lowlander]

Jains don't eat it, but never heard of Western vegans avoiding it

[DulwichFox]

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

[Chick]

Thanks DF.

[Otta]

Watch "Bee Movie", great film.

[ClaphamMum]

I thought that Veganism by definition was avoiding anything produced by animals, including honey and wool that don't require the animal to die to be produced. I guess it depends how extreme you are.

[El Pibe]

so if a vegan was to brush a fly off an apple, does that mean they can no longer eat it as it contains fly vomit?

[Otta]

Forget fly puke, it would contain your dead skin cells. Ewwwwwwwwww!

[Jah Lush]

Veganism is dietary self flagellation.

[Loz]

I thought vegans only ate their own, tortured, hungry souls?

[edcam]

Vegans are silly.

[Robert Poste's Child]

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.

[maxxi]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> On the Food Prog on R4 this week it was said that

> mushrooms are somewhere between animal and

> vegetable, which is thought-provoking.

You mean between the steak and the chips?

[Salsaboy]

Yeah, next to the grilled tomato.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Careful with the tomato, that's for decoration only.

Is ketchup one of your five a day?

[Gray]

But we all get eaten eventually, surely?

Circle of life, and all that.

This has put me in a mood for a good steak, now...

[Seabag]

If a plane crashed and we were all stranded on a remote and snowy mountan

Who would you eat first?

I'd probaly go for the Vegan first, then the veggie, and follow that with the big guy in row 6

Mind you, i'd hoped to be rescued before I had to eat the big guy

[JohnL]

I heard that every Fig contains dead wasps :)

[bermygirl31]

No - strict vegans do not eat honey. It's for the same reason they don't drink milk. A strict vegan doesn't eat anything at all that is derived from an animal....and that means anything. My cousin is vegan and they are very strict about that.

[El Pibe]

so if humans were to go around gathering pollen and turning it honey would that be allowed? Do *we* count as animals?

Strikes me as a contrived, weird and pointless lifestyle choice.

[Otta]

Will someone think of the poor bloody worms that help all that soil the vegetables grow in!

[Jeremy]

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.

[Alan Medic]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> 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.

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

[Jeremy]

If I changed "less absurd" to "realistic", would that satisfy your pedantic urges?

[Seabag]

And snogging

Do real vegans do this?