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… Don’t we need more bees?
Some of us have allergies to specific pollinators. I can’t have some honey without a scratchy throat.
Love bees! Can’t have what they make :((
We need more native pollinators, and honey bees are very good at outcompeting them once they’re introduced, threatening biodiversity and thus ecosystems.
Ah I’m in the UK where they are native pollinators
That doesn’t mean that introducing them in unnatural numbers isn’t harmful to biodiversity and other native pollinators
That’s not what we’re talking about though, we have a declining bee population problem that needs intervention to save
That was exactly what I was talking about. Honey bees are just one very specific type of bees, and they’re replacing the other ones.
Yes and no. Yes, they compete with the other ones and due to domestication have very high population, but also the same factors endangering honey bees (insecticides, monocultures) also endanger other bee species. So while “give the honey bees more sugar water so they survive” would be horrible foe ecological diversity, actually adressing the underlying factors would largely also benefit other species.
I wouldn’t even be surprised if to some degree that still applied to places where they’re invasive tbh
Bee exploitation free honey
Bee sexploitation free honey
So the fake sugar-water honey is trying to premiumize their shit product?
Is it really honey if not made by bees?
I don’t accept it.
Probably not, but we still call non-dairy substitutes “milk” other than some countries that regulate the label. Language tends to go by what it resembles rather than the process to generate it.
I did think of the milk example, but I’d argue that’s not quite an apt comparison as milk is sort of a generic term for similar things from different sources and often just any white liquid. If we had a different, special word for just cow’s milk for example, it’d be weird to call anything else by that name.
I’d argue the equivalent term to “milk” in this case would be syrup. There are many types of syrup, but we specifically use “honey” to mean “syrup made by bees”.
Remember me to an label on a brick with milk “from certified farmers”. Before I thought it was from cows.
