No, Honey Is Not Vegan-Friendly.

No, honey is not vegan-friendly. No matter how many vegans are deluded enough to believe that it is vegan-friendly, I am here to prove to you that it is, in fact, not vegan-friendly.

"Honey is made by bees for bees, and their health is sacrificed when it is harvested by humans. Importantly, harvesting honey does not correlate with The Vegan Society's definition of veganism, which seeks to exclude not just cruelty, but exploitation."

- The Vegan Society.

The main ingredients of honey are pollen and bee saliva. (Ooh, animal excretions, this one is already looking tough for anyone that wants to slap a "free of animal products" label onto this product.)

What is pollen? Pollen is defined in the following  statement: "a fine powdery substance, typically yellow, consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower or from a male cone. Each grain contains a male gamete that can fertilize the female ovule, to which pollen is transported by the wind, insects, or other animals." (Via Google.com. Thank you very much.)

What are bees? "Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the European honey bee, for producing honey and beeswax." (Via Wikipedia.org. Thank you very much.)

Cows produce milk to be sustenance  for their babies. Chickens produce eggs, which are their babies. And bees (honeybees, anyway[s]) produce honey which they use for many different things.

* An Edit / An Update: I updated the tags for this weblog post, and that changed the publishing time / the publishing date, so I just set it to "2/10/17, 12:00 A.M.", but I'm not exactly sure about when the real time / the real date was [for when I originally published it]. Ugh. Oops. *

#1. START A BUCKET LIST.

"I have already come up with lists of things to do before, and I am also counting creating this account as another form of doing that. I would also suggest the following resource: "101 Things To Do Before You Die" by Richard Horne."

Start A Bucket List: http://BucketList.org/idea/2ixs/start-a-bucket-list/.


"My Experience | "101 Things To Do Before You Die" Book by Richard Horne": http://ThoughtsWithAmy.blogspot.com/2015/07/my-experience-101-things-to-do-before.html.

Introducing: Hello Products (A Vegan-Friendly & Cruelty-Free Oral Hygiene Care Brand)!

So ... a few months ago, I discovered a brand called "Hello"! I was really considering buying it online (but I was kind of fixating on / over something, though), until I found it at a Rite-Aid "near me"! (I was kind of planning to buy it, but my Dad bought it for me instead. It only cost about / around a little bit more than $4.00.) I ended up getting their "pure mint" extra whitening fluoride toothpaste.

Hello is a VEGAN-FRIENDLY and CRUELTY-FREE brand of oral hygiene products.

Their products are completely natural with no peroxide, no artificial sweeteners, and no preservatives.

Their toothbrushes are even made of recycled yogurts cartons, and their packages are printed on with soy ink.

On their packages, they state the following claims:

"hello products are Leaping Bunny certified + vegan. animal testing isn't friendly."

"our tubes are bpa-free + contain no phthalates. bonus."

"globally sourced + made in the USA. rock on."

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GENDER IS A BINARY (NOT A SPECTRUM). PERIOD.

Agenderism is fiction (not fact!). Gender is a binary. If your psychologist is telling you that gender is a spectrum, please keep in mind that they are not legally certified to make that decision. A biologist would be the appropriate one to talk to about this subject.

"The gender binary, also referred to as gender binarism (sometimes shortened to just binarism), is the classification of sex and gender into two distinct, opposite and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine. It is one general type of a gender system."

There are males, there are females, and there are intersex people, but being intersex is actually more of a bodily disorder than an actual gender. There are XX and XY chromosomes. Biology does support the fact that gender is nothing but a solid two-option binary. Please get used to it. Thank you.

To quote Rebecca Riley-Cooper (although she is a "radical feminist", and this is not an endorsement of her and / or of her work[s]): "If gender is a spectrum, not a binary, then everyone is “non-binary”."

If everyone is "non-binary", then there is no "binary". And that, in and / or of itself, creates a rather crazy, cyclic, meta dilemma. How could that possibly make any form of sense in any logical realm of this world?

That's like saying:

"Your life must be pretty boring if the entire word 'life' can fit into just one word, to be honest."

"Your life must be pretty boring if your entire life can fit into just one year, to be honest."

"Your life must be pretty boring if your entire sexuality can go just one way, to be honest."

I could probably come up with some other stupid stuff, but let's just save that stuff for later. Okay?