Re: Ticks and Lymes disease
> I asked a hippie ecologist why honey isn't considered vegan, and she said because bees die making it.
What complete tosh.
They eat pollen and vomit honey. End of.
If you take more than the hive needs, they might go hungry. But since commercial beekeepers spend half their lives driving hives to places swarming with pollen, this is a non-starter for anything other than "organic" or backyard/homegrown honey.
The fact that honey is extracted from the ENORMOUS supplies they lay up in honeycomb (the clue's in the name) , without there routinely being vast drifts of dead bees at the foot of the hive, might have been a bit of a clue for your self-righteous acquaintance.