I can recognise a horse when I see one, I know what a saddle and bridle are, and I know that a horse's height is measured in hands (whatever that means), but that's about my limit of equestrian knowledge. However, I can relate, since I'm a beekeeper, and vegans despise me too.
The fact that I put money and effort into providing bees with a comfortable, safe, healthy home, and that they then go on to pollinate crops eaten by vegans as well as by lots of little furry and feathered wild critters doesn't matter to them. In their simple, black and white world, the fact that I also take honey which is in excess of what the bees will need to get through the winter makes me an evil person in their eyes.
Bees don't have the potential for extreme violence that horses do, but if a beekeeper doesn't care for them properly, the colony will either die out or find a better home and all fly away.
I don't much care for meat, and there are many things about modern livestock farming that I think are wrong on several levels, but many vegans don't look any different to me than the members of any cult: they have a simplistic view of the world, proclaim things as undeniably true when they have very little real knowledge of the topic, see themselves as missionaries and are frequently self-righteous to the point of sanctimony.
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I can recognise a horse when I see one, I know what a saddle and bridle are, and I know that a horse's height is measured in hands (whatever that means), but that's about my limit of equestrian knowledge. However, I can relate, since I'm a beekeeper, and vegans despise me too.
The fact that I put money and effort into providing bees with a comfortable, safe, healthy home, and that they then go on to pollinate crops eaten by vegans as well as by lots of little furry and feathered wild critters doesn't matter to them. In their simple, black and white world, the fact that I also take honey which is in excess of what the bees will need to get through the winter makes me an evil person in their eyes.
Bees don't have the potential for extreme violence that horses do, but if a beekeeper doesn't care for them properly, the colony will either die out or find a better home and all fly away.
I don't much care for meat, and there are many things about modern livestock farming that I think are wrong on several levels, but many vegans don't look any different to me than the members of any cult: they have a simplistic view of the world, proclaim things as undeniably true when they have very little real knowledge of the topic, see themselves as missionaries and are frequently self-righteous to the point of sanctimony.
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Yes, I agree, many vegans are extremists. And yes, many vegans would harp on you for being a beekeeper, but you know what?
Fuck them.
Fuck them and their distorted view of the world.
If it weren't for you and you fellow beekeepers, we'd all be screwed n' damned.
So, thank you, I appreciate you and the work you do to keep us all alive and healthy. (And the bees, can't forget about the bees!)