Comment on Honey

bstix@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  so if I buy food from people I’m basically a cannibal

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  • Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it’s more accurate to think of you trapping humans in your basement and leaving them a bag of groceries every once in a while. Then you go down there and take whatever they cooked with the produce. They get to eat what they make, you just get the leftovers. They also can’t leave.

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    • ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Actually if bees don’t like the hive you put them in, they absolutely will leave.

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      • Spacenut@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This isn’t true for the vast majority of commercial honey unfortunately. If you’re buying it from the supermarket, or any producer that operates at even medium scale, they’ll clip the wings of the queen so that the hive is unable to leave even if they want to.

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      • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “Hive looks like someone put it together like a wasp… 0/5 stars”

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    • mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So… capitalism?

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      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No under capitalism the owner gets everything what you make and you get just enough scraps to keep working.

        Joking aside, bees technically have the freedom escape captivity and leave their hive. I think that is a spot on comparison to how work and living in society is often made up to be a a voluntary choice and we’re free to go live in some roadside forest.

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      • Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes capitalism sucks for humans, animals, and the rest of the planet.

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    • Yeller_king@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure if the humans have no idea they are in captivity and their lives are basically the same they would have been otherwise.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Except the leftovers part, bees don’t make “extra” or “leftover” honey.

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    • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Seems more akin to letting them milk themselves and collecting it from the fridge.

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      • Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t think so. Bees make honey for food. Humans drink their mother’s milk as babies, sure, but they don’t keep producing milk and storing it as food as a regular practice.

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• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe if we went around collecting raw food and storing it inside our bodies, and then converted it into a nearly pure sugar.

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dude, language!

  /s

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