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

Published October 13, 2009 @ 07:25AM PT

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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Thank you for posting this! I appreciate the support! I'm really excited to work on the site.

Posted by Noah Lewis on 10/13/2009 @ 11:16AM PT
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Thank you Stephanie for posting this. There is a lot of really good reading to be done on the included links.

Posted by Brad Clodfelter on 10/13/2009 @ 05:05PM PT
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Thanks for posting, i put a link to the fundraising page from other sites, it looks to be going well so far :) Good luck Noah, looking forward to the new info.

I've been vegan almost 20 years now, i choose not to have honey or bees wax products so great to see this info.

Posted by Red N. on 10/14/2009 @ 05:52AM PT
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This is great thank you! Since the '80's I've been debating this issue with non-vegans who just don't GET IT! And now our honey bees are in crisis. The carbon footprint of war and slaughterhouses is directly tied to what is on our dinner plates. Today as BLOG ACTION DAY we can really raise our voices everywhere and start this dialogue in a big way! Our dailly food choices directly begin a chain reaction on our planet. It's time for individuals to understand the violence that takes place against animals, transfers itself to human bodies. Honey is NOT vegan and is not a food us humans need to be consuming. Peace and Ahimsa to all!!

Posted by dee f. on 10/15/2009 @ 09:53AM PT
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Stephanie is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull.