Bees (honey)

To produce honey, male bees are usually crushed to extract the sperm which is forcibly inserted into queen bees which are stuck in a tube without being able to move. Later, queen bees are sold over the Internet which can, among other things, injure and / or kill them.

To prevent queens from leaving the hives, their wings are cut off. Because if a queen leaves the worker bees will follow her. In addition, queens are marked with a highly toxic paint (enamel) marker which causes dizziness, severe headaches, poor coordination, poor vision and brain damage.

Honey is a source of energy for bees which can starve to death when stolen from them. It contains essential nutrients that nourish them, especially in winter or in bad weather. When farmers harvest honey from beehives, they replace it with sugar solutions that lack certain nutrients essential to their health and survival.

When harvesting, the bees are controlled with smoke, the bees react as if there was a fire in their hives. Smoke at high temperatures can destroy bees' wings and cause them to momentarily lose their sense of smell. When this happens, they cannot warn other bees of an invasion.

Industries that harvest honey on a large scale do not use smoke. Instead, they use machines that remove honey from the combs. The machine can crush any bee that gets in its way during harvesting.

To reduce food costs during the winter, bees are killed after the honey harvest. Sometimes farmers may only kill the queen for the worker bees to migrate elsewhere.

Honey is produced by bees so that it can be stored as a food source. At the most basic level, it is their property and taking their honey is theft. But beyond that, there are a number of ethical issues. The usual practices for collecting honey are to kill the bees by accidentally crushing them. The bees are sprayed to subdue them while gaining access to the hive. When honey is stolen, it is replaced with syrup, which is not the same as honey and which essentially robs the bee of its natural food. Hives are extremely sensitive and their opening is very unnatural for bees, which work to maintain a special atmosphere inside, which is disturbed.

In addition, the selective inbreeding of bees has weakened the species as a whole and transporting bees to places and environments they do not normally go to means transporting diseases that would not normally affect the bee population. local, which is dangerous for them in general. It is a misconception that honey production benefits the entire bee population. Often times, the queen's wings are clipped so that she cannot go away.