veganism: I'm a little confused over this one. It's not produced by the bee (like milk), it's manufactured by the bee from tree syrup? Is that right?|||M is perfectly correct. It's more of an opinion. Bees throw up something that takes pollen to make and we call it honey. Obviously it goes through some process to make it edible/ tasty, but.. yeah. Bee vomit. All an opinion.|||Nope. The simplest reason why honey isn't vegan is by definition. The term vegan was coined by Donald Watson in 1944 and was defined as follows: Veganism is a way of living which excludes all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, the animal kingdom, and includes a reverence for life. It applies to the practice of living on the products of the plant kingdom to the exclusion of flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, honey, animal milk and its derivatives, and encourages the use of alternatives for all commodities derived wholly or in part from animals (Stepaniak). That's just a small bit of info, the link below provides more.|||No. Bees are killed in the process of gathering honey.. In the US, 10 to 20 percent of colonies are lost over the winter. It is partly by accident and partly on purpose. Some beekeepers kill off their hives before winter. This practice can make economic sense. Unfortunately, it is not the small backyard beekeeper, but rather the large, factory bee farmer, so a lot of bees are killed even if most beekeepers don't use the practice. Also, in the process of checking up on the hive and taking the honey, some bees get squashed by the frames or stepped on. Queen bees can live for as long as five years but most commercial beekeepers replace them every two year (and often yearly). "Replace" is a euphemism for killing the old queen. Backyard beekeepers also regularly kill their queens.|||Sort of a matter of opinion. Some think it's derived from animals, therefore not ok; some think it's not of the animal's body, therefore ok. Decide for yourself, don't worry what other people think. It's nobody's choice but yours what you eat. It's basically bee vomit, if that helps. Does not harm the bee in any way, shape or form. Nor, for the record, does being milked hurt the cow or laying eggs hurt the chicken -but I digress. If you want to eat honey, go for it. If not, try agave nectar as a substitute.|||Some consider it an animal product, some don't. I prefer Agave Nectar, although local honey can help cure most yearly allergies to local flowers. I consider it a product of animals. It's more humane then milk and eggs, but not by much. It is (and I admit) a food I choose to splurge on if I know the beekeeper in which it came from, and how they handled the bees.|||Yes, it IS produced by the bee. Bees make honey, therefore, if you decide to adopt a vegan philosophy, you can never eat honey again. It's an animal product, and vegans touch nothing that came from an animal.|||No, vegans aren't supposed to eat honey. It's produced by bees therefore is an animal product|||Animal product is food that is made from animals and bees make honey. Plus, eating honey is stealing from bees.|||No u cannot eat honey|||My Dad raises bees. It's all natural. Bee's make honey by getting pollen from plants. So it's all natural.:) Well,if you get it naturally. So,it's vegan.:)|||Simplest solution, don't adopt a vegan outlook on life.