Hi (and honey)

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Hi people, I'm not sure how long I'll be staying here 'cos I get way too

much mail already, but here comes the intro.

 

I'm 16/f, currently located in Nottinghamshire, uk (and have been for 6 1/2

years, ahh!). I went veggie when I was 8, vegan, probably properly 2-3 years

ago, although trying to varying degrees of success since I was 11. I'm at

collage, doing A' leval Chemistry, Biology, Maths & Psychology, I hope to do

a Biochemistry degree. I like rock music, but I think most of my favourites

would fall under softer rock - I don't know, not good with labels. I have

been trying lately not to get too bogged down with my slightly

misanthropistic tendencies... well, more to come, most likely.

 

Erm, as a new member, not sure how to say this, but I joined on digest, and

the one I get so far had 6 messages, but it was pretty long. People are

replying including the whole message history, along with all the headers and

footers. It's a lot of scrolling.

 

Bees & Honey:

I consider honey the most humane animal product, however it is produced the

bees must be alowed to go out to all the flowers and live pretty much

naturaly.

Of course most comercial farmers replace the honey with sugar-syrup, which

isn't that nice.

Bees do not have to die to get the honey, and they don't because it's bad

for production - less bees, and disruption to the hive. There will always be

bees dying in the hive, there are shifts to clean out the dead ones. When

there is someone opeing up the hive every so often and poking around there

will be the odd death from it, but in intensive-commercial farming this will

be more because of carelessness.

ROYAL JELLY is not a nice thing. It is the stuff the queen puts on a larve

or whatever to make a new queen. The queen must be killed to extract it, and

it obviously takes a LOT of queens. This would mean the queen was dead and

she hadn't been able to make a new one - the hive would not be happy.

I know someone who keeps bees as a hobby. She only takes surplus, and has

one hive. She cares about the bees. I would not object to honey from her

hive.

 

Asha