You Do Not Speak For The Bees. - Corsaren Protrepticus

Apiculture and anti-natalism

Known effective altruism troublemaker Matthew Adelstein, more commonly known as Bentham's Bulldog, recently caused quite the commotion with his essay on the ethics of eating honey. In said essay, he argued (emphasis mine): If you eat honey, you are causing staggeringly large amounts of very intense suffering. Eating honey is many times worse than eating other animal products, which are themselves bad enough Naturally, this made a lot of people very angry. As you can see, it was a very calm, measured, and productive conversation had by all Arguments for veganism—particularly moral…

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