Lemmy.VG for Vegans@lemmy.vg to Vegan Circlejerk@lemmy.vgEnglish · 5 months agoI emailed Jean Paul Gaultier to ask if their cosmetics are vegan, and found out that bees are not animals and that they're appropriate for vegetarians.lemmy.vgimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down113
arrow-up18arrow-down1imageI emailed Jean Paul Gaultier to ask if their cosmetics are vegan, and found out that bees are not animals and that they're appropriate for vegetarians.lemmy.vgLemmy.VG for Vegans@lemmy.vg to Vegan Circlejerk@lemmy.vgEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareflughoernchenlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoApart from it obviously not being vegan - others jumped that train already - honey bee industry is actually pretty bad for the environment. Especially in areas with a lack of natural pollinators the competition honey bees place further destabilizes the ecosystem, even worsening the insect die-off. (That’s not the article I learned it from, just the first one I found on that matter. Feel free to recommend better ones.)
Apart from it obviously not being vegan - others jumped that train already - honey bee industry is actually pretty bad for the environment. Especially in areas with a lack of natural pollinators the competition honey bees place further destabilizes the ecosystem, even worsening the insect die-off.
(That’s not the article I learned it from, just the first one I found on that matter. Feel free to recommend better ones.)