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  • chetradley@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzIt's just loss.
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    7 hours ago

    This is clearly a sensitive topic for you, so believe me when I say that I’m only talking about myself here. Yes, humans have included meat in their diets for thousands of years, but the recent changes that I feel shift the paradigm are: the scope and scale of industrial farming, the brutal conditions animals now face, and the fact that we have a good enough concept of human dietary requirements that people can finally make the choice to remove animal products from their diets in a healthy way.

















  • I won’t speak for other vegans, but my research into beekeeping and honey production turned me against the industry for the following reasons:

    • Beekeepers will commonly clip the wings of queens to keep them from swarming or leaving.
    • Semen is commonly extracted from bees by crushing them.
    • Honey taken from hives is commonly replaced with a nutrient-devoid sugar solution, affecting the health of the bees.
    • Selective breeding of honeybees has made them more susceptible to diseases which can also affect native insects.
    • Honeybees have been shown to cause serious disruptions to plant-pollinator networks, putting local pollinators at great risk.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/