Tumblr Thread Tries To Show Vegans A Way They Could Eat Eggs And Honey

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AmyBrown
Oct 6, 2019 1:00 PM EDT

Tumblr user, despazito, couldn't wrap their head around vegan eating preferences and asked, "Vegans who refuse to even eat backyard eggs....why" 

The user tried pointing out eating eggs and honey might be not at all that unethical.

What are your thoughts?

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    Text - despazito vegans who refuse to even eat backyard eggs....why
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    Text - despazito people who think its unethical to eat chicken eggs are like people who think bees should keep all their honey. they literally produce more than they need and your unwillingness to even buy local means you are doing nothing to help them, support your small farmers you heathens
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    Text - feminist-james This is not true. 1) honeybees do not produce "extra honey." And beekeepers don't take some of the honey, they take all of it. 2) chickens have been artificially selected from naturally producing eggs once a month to producing eggs every couple of days. Their bodies are not sustainable and the health complications of this rapid egg production kills chickens.
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    Text - spoonfulofwhoopass Hey idk who like. Lied to you about the way honey farms work, but could you stop spreading misinformation? Are you a beekeeper? Because I am! Beekeepers make sure hives are fed before there is pollen in the air, protected from predators and the elements, and have enough honey to sustain themselves. We don't take all of it
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    Text - But overproduction of honey leads to stagnation in the hive. It puts stress on the queen to lay eggs, and when they inevitably fill up all their space with honey (instead of filling up the multiple empty, clean boxes of frames beekeepers might put on top of the main hive box), the queen can get so stressed she dies If there's a spike in the weather and the hive hasn't prepared new queen brood, that's it! The colony is dead. Because there wasn't enough space for eggs and honey in the hive.
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    Text - Beekeepers take excess honey. We are constantly monitoring the state of the hive, checking for parasites, analyzing the eggs for diseases, and making sure they are fed and healthy (usually with sugar water and pollen substitutes until they have made enough honey to sustain themselves in the early spring months). If a queen dies prematurely, we make every attempt to replace her to save the colony
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    Text - I know there's an urge to patronize everyone who works in the farming industry, but try to understand the differences between small scale agriculture and industrial farming. There IS a difference. And stop spreading misinformation. If you're this passionate about ethical consumption, look into some of the ecofeminist research on non-hierarchal interspecies relationships (working on building animal- human relationships in a non exploitative way) But yeah! Stop spreading misinformation! Ple
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    Text - himbozack Also if I can harp on the chicken part? Yea Chickens are some of the most abused animals on big factory farms and I'll be the first to admit it's criminal and more needs to be done to regulate this. Yes selective breeding over time has caused an increase in the ammount of eggs produced by chickens and factory farms have messed up practices to get more eggs from them including forced moutling.
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    Text - THIS IS WHY YOU SUPPORT LOCAL FARMERS AND THEIR EGGS Many people take to raising their own hens because of America's immoral treatment of hens in factory farms like you're not helping the poor chicks by starving these farmers financially you're just hurting the one people trying to change things and making the OPTION of cage free organic cruelty free eggs even harder to find
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    Text - simplelittlepaperyanon Yeah, as someone who like... lives on a chicken and duck farm... Coops help keep wild animals out but birds are kinda dumb. And chickens literally do not need to keep the unfertilized eggs! Most chickens will sit on unfertilized eggs until they can tell if they are or not... By the smell of rotting egg. Yeah, ew. Farmers can hold that bitch to the flashlight and tell if there's a baby in there! They know! The eggs are not being abused!
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    Text - veronica-rich Also once a month? Like thousands of years ago maybe? Because Grandpa had chickens he literally let just roam around his farm and built coops and scattered corn for them and I helped collect the eggs, and believe me, those chickens each laid more than once a month
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    Text - systlin As a beekeeper...what the f k? No we don't take all the honey. That would be downright ridiculous
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