Ep 15: Honey with The Vegan Society

The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast

Evanna Lynch

Chickpeeps, Lynch, Health & Fitness, Animals, Veganism, Vegan, Lovegood, Luna, Harrypotter, Plantbased, Evanna, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Many people struggle with the concept that honey is not vegan because they don't understand how taking their honey hurts the bees or they argue that if the bees were unhappy they could just fly away, or that the bee population needs commercial honey-making in order to thrive. So this week Tylor and Evy discuss the much debated topic of honey and why it isn't vegan. Later in the show, Evy interviews Elena Orde of The Vegan Society, the organisation that coined the term vegan, to learn about the many non-vegan standard practices in the stages of honey production. Also on this episode:

Please send healing vibes to our dear Momo!
Tylor explains how sentient bees are harmed in the process of commercial honey production.
Elene Orde of the vegan society shares a bit about the life of a honey bee.
Why do bees make honey?
The differences between naturally produced and commercially produced honey
- artificial insemination of the queen bee
- sugar solution substitutes
- the fate of queens bees in commercial hives
- Smoking out the hive
Why don’t bees just fly away if they’re unhappy?
Reminder: Beeswax = E901
Honey as a health food - is it nutritionally superior to other sugar and unprocessed sugar-alternatives
Bees and their role in the eco-system. Does our environment need commercial honey production to survive?
How can we support honey bees?
Is there an ethical-vegan way to consume honey?
The Bees by Lalline Paul
If insects die in the production of vegetables, isn’t that the same as consuming honey?
Listener Shoutouts

Links:

The Vegan Society

Friends of The Earth - The Great British Bee Count

Health Benefits of Honey Article by Viva!

Amazing detailed article on Why Honey is Not Vegan

The Bees by Laline Paull

The Vegan Society on Facebook

The Vegan Society on Twitter

The Vegan Society on Instagram

The Vegan Society on Youtube

Social Media

Twitter: @ChickPeepsPod

Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod

Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast

Momoko Hill: @oh_momoko

Robbie Jarvis: @robbjarvis

Tylor Starr: @tylorstarr

Evanna Lynch: @msevylynch

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:02.0	Hello,
0:07.0	Cheat your veggies, not your friends, it's not hard to be begin, the chickpeepie.
0:19.0	Hello, lovely chickpeeps and welcome to episode 15. This is our episode on honey.
0:24.5	I'm joined today by my co-host Tyler, Tyler Star. Hi, Tyler. Hey, hey, what's going on? Not much,
0:30.3	just talking about honey. We are, and I also wanted to send love to Mo Mo Mo Mo, Mo's supposed to join us
0:36.0	today, but she's feeling under the weather.
0:38.8	So send her all your love and charge your crystals and harness them towards her.
0:44.4	I don't know if that's what crystals work.
0:46.4	I think that's how that works.
0:47.8	You do like some kind of like healing crystal thing and point somewhere.
0:51.4	Like I think this is the wizard interpretation of it, Tyler.
0:54.7	That's right.
0:55.3	Yeah, exactly.
0:57.3	I have a feeling you have to be touching them.
1:00.3	Because Momo talks about the vibrations that you feel from them.
1:03.6	But anyway, you can send her your love through your heart.
1:06.9	We're very happy to be back after a break.
1:08.9	Thank you for being patient with us.
1:11.2	And we're going to be talking about honey today because so many people have requested this episode.
1:15.8	And personally, it's not a topic that I understand fully because I never, I guess I always, once I heard it was not vegan and I found alternatives.
1:24.5	I didn't really think about it much more than that.
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