You mean the pressed & battered pink meat slime made from the nonchalantly frappéed newborn males of their distant descendents? They'd probably give it a stamp of approval. Dinos were fucking stupid. I have no idea what our current excuse is, though.
What do they do with all the feathers? I'm pretty confident those videos you remember seeing aren't going to food for humans. They're going to food for chickens, livestock, or other uses. We aren't eating half fluff and bone lol.
Shouldn't that be what chickens think about dino nuggies, since you're taking the product of one thing (chicken) and putting it in the form of another (dinos)?
That movie makes me angry, he has no standing in the case. His hive was never harvested. I assume the hives that were harvested appeared to be man made. They never explain those bees perspective. As far as we know they had a deal and now Jerry Seinfeld has now gotten them evicted.
Yeah he has no standing but like, he's also just fucking wrong. The third act of the movie details that the world undergoes an ecological disaster thanks to Barry getting the bees to stop working. As an ending, it has its own problems, but for as much as you can say about the Bee Movie, Barry isn't a hero or even really heroic until the very end. He's just an asshole who's out for himself. Absolutely he fucked over those corporate bees, and he doesn't care, he just didn't want to work.
Barry has standing in that destruction of natural habitats in the area surrounding his hive has impacted his colony's ability to thrive. His colony is a victim of colonialism. If he can prove that his colony is descended from an earlier colony which cultivated plant life in the New York area that was deforested by humans, then he may be able to argue that his colony is owed a certain amount of land. Charging rent from the human businesses on that land so he can buy honey, Barry would be able to supply his colony with enough honey to get us to the end of the movie's plot.
It's a little more complicated than what we actually saw, but the logic is sound.
I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here, if you get honey in a bear shaped container,it'll be the absolutely shittiest honey available on the market.
Never seen one outside of American media, and it was always obvious it's the worst quality. I'm pretty sure it's not even majority honey, it feels very American to have it be like 80% high-fructose corn syrup, additives, "honey aroma" and the rest shitty honey only because it's needed by law to call it honey.
That is not my lived experience; the random grocery store brand inexpensive honey I bought is 100% honey. I remember seeing a bottle of "honey blend" posted to Lemmy awhile back that was cut with corn syrup with a lot of Americans surprised at its existence.
I've seen them in France. Here it's not allowed to mix honey with something else. But you're allowed to buy the cheapest honey you can find from wherever, and mix it. The result can be surprising.
Yeah you're not free to run around any more, I'm gonna sit on you and you're gonna take me where I want to go.
Hey I'm gonna put you into a little enclosure so we can all come by and look at you. No, you can't have a friend in there.
Oh I'm gonna breed you with really short unusable legs and breathing problems because it's fun for me.
Also if you ever bite me or anything like that, or even exist in my neighborhood at all if you're realistically capable of doing any damage to us, then we're gonna have some fuckin problems, I guarantee you.
It's worth noting whatever's left is often still not enough to survive the winter. They often replace it with a form of sugar water that doesn't give the bees what they need
From a study looking at the harms of this replacement:
However, the amount
of HMF that can be found in homemade syrups, which increases with temperature and acidity, can be much higher
and can cause significant bee mortality. Moreover, we highlighted the detrimental effect of syrups acidity on
honeybee survival, suggesting that the addition of lemon or any other acidifying substance to invert the sucrose
could be harmful and not necessary.
From a less scientific source but talking about practices more broadly:
To harvest the honey, beekeepers either smoke the bees to subdue them, or trap them with a clearing board over one or two days. Others kill the colony altogether.
Oftentimes, beekeepers replace the honey they remove with a sugar water substitute. This practice prompts honeybees to overwork themselves to replace the missing honey. Meanwhile, the sugar water lacks the nutrients, fats, and vitamins that bees need to be healthy.
Unless you have citations assuring the validity and impartiality of that team from the initial quote, I'm going to have to lean toward "biased AF" and even "fundamentally compromised". Secondly, the follow-up quote is both and blatantly so: fucking vegan "news"? For shame.
Maybe, getting off the internet and taking to some actual apiarists' could be a wiser, more reliably scientific method to find answers to this issue. Rather than memes, FB-focused "news" orgs, and politically attached think thanks. 🤷🏼♀️