How You Can Help the "Why Honey Is Not Vegan" Site

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-10-13 07:25:00 UTC
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We haven't had the honey conversation on this blog yet, and it tends to be an issue vegans discuss more among themselves than with others, for better or for worse. But there's a widely cited resource out there where you can get solid, thoughtful information on the harm caused for honey production (or, more accurately, theft) and why it isn't vegan.

More than 10 years ago, an animal advocate named Noah created the "Why Honey Is Not Vegan" page with comprehensive, well-thought-out information and arguments in defense of bees and in support of letting them keep their honey. If you plug the words "vegan" and "honey" into Google, your first hit is going to be his page. A decade later, the page needs an overhaul and has the potential to become a new, more comprehensive and impressive resource, and Noah is now in the last couple days of a Kickstarter fundraiser to help him work full-time on the site for a few months.

Rather than try to reword what's already been said, I want to ask you to check out two thoughtful posts about this project that are already out there in the blogosphere: (1) Steven at L.O.V.E. has covered not only the Kickstarter fundraiser but also the broader issues at play here, in "focusing on the most marginalized groups" such as insects; and (2) Ida at The Vegan Ideal has published an interview with the "Why Honey Is Not Vegan" creator. Please read those posts, and to read (and hear) more about the project directly from the creator himself and/or pledge some support for it, visit the Kickstarter page.

Finally, my thanks to Victor of L.O.V.E. for alerting me to the project (and my apologies for not catching his e-mail sooner, before doing an inbox cleanup yesterday).

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Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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