Today, I went to a gathering at a friend's place. He had a bottle of "mead", which I tried and loved. Only after drinking two glasses did I learn that "mead" is made from honey. Eight years of dedicated veganism down the drain. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, some friends and I had a wine tasting evening, and I tried to impress my friends by showing off my extensive knowledge of different wines. I confidently described the subtle "notes of vanilla and oak" in a bottle of wine… only to find out that my "friends" had pranked me, and it was actually grape juice. FML
Today, I had a friend tell me all about how being a vegan was so great. They were eating eggs. FML
Today, my roommate decided to go vegan and threw all of MY meats, cheeses, chocolates and even beans for some reason in the trash, because he "doesn't need that kind of toxic waste" in his life. FML
Today, I've been a vegan for a year. It's also the day that I met my dad's new best friend, who happens to be a retired butcher. They tried to pull an intervention on me for not "being sensible" by eating meat. FML
Today, water turned to wine. That is, my brother put wine in my hamster's water bottle. Very bad idea. FML
Today, I really wanted something to drink. I looked in the fridge, and found some of my grandma's soy milk. I took a swig, and instead of tasting soy, I tasted something rotten. Turns out my grandma knows I drink her soy milk, so she swapped it with expired chicken broth. FML
Today, my daughter's teacher called me, very concerned, because my child told the whole class she's not a virgin anymore. The word is "vegan", Honey. FML
Today, I held a house party. For fun, I made sure all the beer was alcohol-free, so I could see which of my friends would be weak-minded enough to end up acting drunk. Three did. I was one of them. FML
Today, I poured out a glass of apple juice to drink. I threw out a beer can from earlier, and my mom thought I was drinking alcohol, not juice. She scolded me, until I made her physically taste the juice. FML
Today, I was at my boyfriend's house for dinner with his family. His mom cooked up a steak dinner, except that I'm a vegan, but trying to be a good girlfriend, I forced it down. Upon his mother finding out I was a vegan, she called me "disloyal to my beliefs." FML
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FluffythePink 23
As KittyKatGirl says, honey should be acceptable to vegans. For the point she made about zero harm, zero exploitation and the fact that you have to keep the bees happy for them to stay but also because taking the old honey they don't use is actually helpful to the hive. Beekeeping is almost a symbiosis and completely different from 'farming' them. Plus the bee population is in decline, by not supporting it you are contributing to said decline and therefore harming them. Please do some research and have a serious think about allowing honey in your life. Also, decent Mead is ******* delicious and very, very easy to make for yourself.
idragosani 17
How did you not know what mead is made from? I would think a "dedicated vegan" would at least confirm what is in a drink before consuming it.
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idragosani 17
How did you not know what mead is made from? I would think a "dedicated vegan" would at least confirm what is in a drink before consuming it.
KittyKatGirl 15
Feel sorry for you, but at least Honey is one of the more , if not the most animal friendly 'animal product' you can get. There is pretty much no way to keep a bee swarm where they are not happy, so if they arent happy, they can AND do, flee.
FluffythePink 23
As KittyKatGirl says, honey should be acceptable to vegans. For the point she made about zero harm, zero exploitation and the fact that you have to keep the bees happy for them to stay but also because taking the old honey they don't use is actually helpful to the hive. Beekeeping is almost a symbiosis and completely different from 'farming' them. Plus the bee population is in decline, by not supporting it you are contributing to said decline and therefore harming them. Please do some research and have a serious think about allowing honey in your life. Also, decent Mead is ******* delicious and very, very easy to make for yourself.
d j mom 9
very well put.
maverick83 15
As others are pointing out, I don't think consuming honey is really harmful to anyone or anything. But even if we assume it is, years of having a positive impact is not negated by one mistake, nor are any positive impacts you have going forward.
soundsfakebutok 10
jesus dude, it was an accident. you didn’t throw anything down the drain. you’re fine. pick yourself up and move on
Nazmazh 18
Here's the thing about the bees, as others have said: If they were discontent with their living conditions in apiaries - Including the honey being gathered from their hives, there is literally nothing stopping them from just leaving. Sure, it's not "consenting to give their honey" to the beekeepers in a way that equates to a human consenting to exchange labour for money, for instance. But the bees aren't being held captive in any way. And, all told, the protection humans give to their hive boxes likely reduce the risk of deliberate predation by bears, etc. by a significant margin, so surplus food is traded for better rates of grub survival and whatnot.
Nazmazh 18
Since it does seem to cause you distress, do yourself a favour and be absolutely certain when it comes to trying new foods. Ask the host. Pull out your phone and do a quick check on wikipedia (don't rely on AI and its predictive text fill-in-the-blank models). If you can't confirm, consider it better to pass up something than to accidentally ingest something you morally object to. But, also: Don't consider yourself tainted/horrible/etc. for an accidental slip-up. Absolute insistence on purity is not great for the mental health. There's no such thing as vegan-hell, and accidentally consuming something you don't believe you should is not a vegan-Deadly-Sin that will get you banished there.
Ubehage 32
Doesn't sound very dedicated, to consume stuff without knowing its origin. YDI