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Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized
Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees
I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there
It’s not that wild.
And it’s certainly not hubris.
Exploitation is abuse, and bees are worse than exploited.
…no.
The word you are looking for here is symbiotic. Bees and beekeepers have a symbiotic relationship.
If bees are not well-treated, they leave. You cannot abuse a hive and have it remain functional. You cannot abuse a hive, period. The only way to do so would be to kill the whole hive by not permitting any of them to fly.
It is functionally impossible for beekeepers to abuse a hive of bees.
If bees don’t like their living conditions, they leave.
They are a fully unionized insect.
Stop your weak vegan bullshit, it’s exhausting. Not every relationship between humans and other species is abusive or even has the capability to be abusive.
For fuck’s sake, why are you even following our reblogging from me?
I once had a vegan academic, at AN ACADEMIC CONFERENCE, say to the audience of her talk that beekeepers clip the wings of all their bees so they can’t fly away. Allllll of them. She was not thrilled when I busted out laughing. I pointed out that she’d clearly taken a tidbit of information (some beekeepers DO clip the wings of the queen and only the queen, not always for flight limitation reasons) and got it twisted, bc how the hell would bees collect nectar and pollen if they can’t fly?? She then doubled down and said they have to WALK. TO. THE. FLOWERS.
See, ok, I want to engage this real quick. Your average beehive is between 20,000 and 80,000 bees. Probably less for smaller hives and more for bigger hives. So lets really lowball it. Lets say this hive has 10,000 bees. Do you understand how unproductive it would be to clip the wings of 10,000 bees? Not only to sort through 10,000 bees and figure out which ones are clipped and which ones aren’t, but to actually clip the wings of 10,000 bees? Let alone the fact that you get halfway through and all the bees decide you’re a threat and start leaving. Let alone the queen deciding she doesn’t like you for harming all of her workers and also walks off. You literally cannot abuse a beehive. They don’t have the brains to reason out the whole “Oh but its a warm shelter and I’m safe from predators so I guess I should stay,,,” no, if they feel unhappy they will either Die About It or Leave. They will not take abuse because they don’t get Stockholm syndrome, they don’t have the brains to argue for staying, they’re either happy and fed, or upset and starving. And if its the latter they will just fucking Leave or Die About It. Bees allow humans to harvest honey because they overproduce, and humans allow bees to remain nearby without breaking out the insecticide. Thats a symbiotic relationship.
