Bees don’t get exploited in the creation of honey, FYI
Edit: to explain, beekeepers actually take a lot of workload off bees by getting rid of parasites, giving them a hive which is more stable than their own and lovingly taking care of them. The amount of honey taken is only a fraction of what they produce. Overall the bees are left with a net positive in energy saved that would usually go into dealing with disease, competitors, repairing the nest, parasites, practically everything.
Notably is also that in artificial hive designs, the bees thrive better than in nature.
Beekeeping is also playing an intensely important role in undoing damage that humans did to bee populations, so it is actually in any environmentalists interest to support beekeeping. It’s also currently the only way we can combat “Colony Collapse Disorder” which if left unchecked, can decimate hives in entire countrysides and was deemed an extinction level threat for certain bee species.
You are literally stealing the fruits of their labor. How is that not exploitation?
Actually, bees chant in circle when they want to donate their honey to the almighty beekeper, and that’s how these brave people can bring such a miraculous food onto our tables. Source: my cousin’s boyfriend is a bee
Real honey that is. The supermarket’s honey is made in China under similar conditions to chicken. It’s not even honey. They force feed suger and collect it.
