kiwianaroha:

isolationary:

I can’t go through the #bee tag without cringing at vegans spreading misinformation about bees and beekeepers.

THOUSANDS OF BEES ARE NOT KILLED BY HARVESTING HONEY.

BEEKEEPERS DO NOT TAKE ALL THE HONEY. Bees make excess honey and good beekeepers let some hives grow until they split and “swarm” into new hives because bee populations have a healthy number they tend to stay at.

BEEKEEPERS ARE SOMETIMES NECESSARY. Honeybees are not native to north America y'all. Beekeepers make sure hives are well cared for and don’t succumb to disease, mites or weather. Some also keep communities alive (or voluntarily rehome swarms) that your average person would call an exterminator for.

Big corporate beekeeping is shit though. And made necessary by track farming destroying viable habitat for pollinators. This is why people say you should go local.

NOBODY LOVES BEES MORE THAN BEEKEEPERS. FIGHT ME.

A vegan once used the phrase “bee slavery” in front of me and I wanted to throw up.