Comments on: Haagen-Dazs Launches Campaign To Overturn NYC Beekeeping Ban

By: NYC Becomes Bee-Friendly, Amends Law Forbidding Backyard Honey Hives « ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:09:50 +0000

[...] we mentioned earlier, the effort to amend the law also received huge attention from Haagen-Dazs ice cream, which depends on bees to help pollinate more than 50 percent of the brand’s flavors. “More [...]

By: herwin

herwin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:20:45 +0000

i agree with the contents but please try not to speak like a walking dictionary, a sentence like “hagendasz is ritually enslaving animals” well, um, ordinary folks kinda shy away from such language. and isnt it ordinary people who you want to reach ? they r the customer and why they not turn vegan ? for now thats the big question why they dont, and how can “we” interest and pursuade them in consuming less or no animal products, right ? also the average consumer doesnt care about “a tantamount of scientific evidence”, they just care if its cheap, if its cool and hip, and if its yummy, and if the one doesnt develop cancer within two days or drop dead to the ground, the average consumer considers the product “save”. consumers are just like animals in that way.
anyway, again i agee with you and i certainly mysself dont use honey, lets hope and spread the vegan peaceful message.

By: Chastity

Chastity — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:07:06 +0000

Allen, thank you. You are so right.

The utilitarian attitude we hold towards animals is what is causing such problems. First of all, agave nectar can easily replace honey. Second of all, Haagen Dazs ritually enslaves and murders cows, pigs and chickens and of course, bees for their products. If they’re so worried about them going on the decline, why not leave ALL animals alone? As consumers, why not turn vegan? That’s the solution.

Before people start saying that there’s an agenda behind veganism, it’s the moral demand to end speciesism. As for health and environmental reasons, there is tantamount of scientific evidence that we do not need them to be a part of something we eat, wear and basically enslave for our amusement, convenience and pleasure.

By: Sonia

Sonia — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:35:54 +0000

Thanks for the info guys. I have to say that, as a vegan, I’m really not to well versed on the effects on bees and the whole honey debate. I don’t eat honey, but when people ask why I can’t really give them an understandable answer. Maybe now I’ll be able to. Appreciate it:)

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:59:57 +0000

Most beekeepers are really bee factory farmers and they are responsible for the collapse of bee colonies. Beekeepers impair bee immune systems by taking their food, honey, and replacing it with sugar water. They impair their immune systems by blowing nicotine smoke into their hives to subdue the bees when they steal their honey. They impair their immune systems when they truck the bee colonies hundreds of miles around the country so that farmers will pay beekeepers for helping to pollinate their crops. Meanwhile, the honeybee, a non-native and deliberately introduced invasive species, is driving native pollinators to extinction – including insects, birds and other animals.

If we really want to save the bees, protect biodiversity and the human food supply, we really need to stop supporting beekeepers.

Thank you Remy for the link to the documentary about this same topic.

By: Remy C.

Remy C. — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:59:34 +0000

I highly recommend this documentary on the causes of the bee decline:
http://pierreterre.com/video/nicotine-bees-trailer