Guest guest Posted April 21, 2002 Report Share Posted April 21, 2002 >According to Websters Dictionary ... a bee is still an insect ... not an >animal. Actually, being an insect by most zoological definitions means being an animal -- the two are not mutually exclusive. There is some disagreement about how many 'kingdoms' [sic] into which living things should be classified, but at their root, animals (including mammals, insects, birds, reptiles, etc.) invariably represent one kingdom and plants another. After that, there is some argument about how to classify funghi, bacteria and one-celled creatures, but not insects -- they're part of the animal kingdom. >they don't kill their bees, because that is how they make their >living Second, they do kill their bees. I know honey farmers personally (unfortunately) who do so. They often destroy hives as winter sets in due to the fiscal considerations. Factory farmers of varying species often kill their stocks if there's any lack of productivity, signs of illness, etc. And certainly, the appropriation of their honey (as an element of their nutrition) and the process involved in its collection both involve bee death. Were it not fatal to the bees, however, it would still mean the appropriation of their labour at the cost of their suffering, and vegans who consider themselves animal rights proponents, I think, should disagree on this basis alone. _______________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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