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Honey is a by-product of bees, the same way that all human made food is a by-products of humans.

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so if I buy food from people I’m basically a cannibal

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I think it’s more accurate to think of you trapping humans in your basement and leaving them a bag of groceries every once in a while. Then you go down there and take whatever they cooked with the produce. They get to eat what they make, you just get the leftovers. They also can’t leave.

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Actually if bees don’t like the hive you put them in, they absolutely will leave. I haven’t had happen to me personally but I have heard of it happening to others; you put the package in and come back to find that 200$+ worth of bees just upped and flew away.

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6 points

So… capitalism?

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Sure if the humans have no idea they are in captivity and their lives are basically the same they would have been otherwise.

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Except the leftovers part, bees don’t make “extra” or “leftover” honey.

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Seems more akin to letting them milk themselves and collecting it from the fridge.

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Maybe if we went around collecting raw food and storing it inside our bodies, and then converted it into a nearly pure sugar.

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Dude, language!

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