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grufty jim
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Re: Why don't vegans eat honey ?
Jan 15, 2003, 14:25
The reasons, it seems to me, for refusing to participate in the commercial honey industry apply *equally* to the commercial vegetable industry. Any large scale vegetable cultivation will require killing a whole bunch of insects (admittedly not bees usually; but is there an ethical difference between bees and caterpillars).

This was Einstein's big issue with vegetarianism by the way. He was a great believer in animal rights and became a vegetarian later in his life, and was vocal in his support of vegetarianism. But he couldn't see any rational reason why a person would refuse to eat fish (say) but was willing to eat a vegetable whose production required the death of perhaps dozens of caterpillars.

Is there truly any ethical difference between buying a pot of honey and buying fruit from a supermarket? When it comes down to brass tacks - number of invertebrates killed / negatively affected; i suspect not.
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