Resisting the urge to just call you a liberal like I usually do for fun because if you're vegan for environment then you're like me, and educating is more valuable.
Do you know about the effect farming European honeybees in the US and any place they are not native to has on the local environment?
Honeybees tend to keep more pollen and do not do as effective of a job at pollinating compared to wild bee species (most of which do not produce honey), so introducing beekeeping into an area and letting your "stock" go into the fields to drain flowers of pollen and nectar harms those endemic species and severely hurts the balance. European honeybees are considered an invasive species.
Check this video from Earthling Ed out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clMNw_VO1xo
It makes the ethical appeal first, then specifies the environmental impact.
He's great, I recommend his video on eating the eggs of backyard chickens as well, that's also something a lot of vegans waver on thinking it's more humane.
Resisting the urge to just call you a liberal like I usually do for fun because if you're vegan for environment then you're like me, and educating is more valuable.
Do you know about the effect farming European honeybees in the US and any place they are not native to has on the local environment?
Honeybees tend to keep more pollen and do not do as effective of a job at pollinating compared to wild bee species (most of which do not produce honey), so introducing beekeeping into an area and letting your "stock" go into the fields to drain flowers of pollen and nectar harms those endemic species and severely hurts the balance. European honeybees are considered an invasive species.
Check this video from Earthling Ed out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clMNw_VO1xo
It makes the ethical appeal first, then specifies the environmental impact.
Thanks for the link
He's great, I recommend his video on eating the eggs of backyard chickens as well, that's also something a lot of vegans waver on thinking it's more humane.
Do wild bee species make honey? Or just honeybees?
Some do, at some point the European honeybee was wild and we domesticated it because they produce honey as a storage behavior.
Could we use a native species?
Many bee species don't make honey, or some do and are far more aggressive in protection of their hives, or some are solitary and don't form colonies.
There is this American honey producing bee that was cultivated by the Mayans, but deforestation is forcing it into extinction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melipona_beecheii#Agriculture