You maybe be right but I still disagree, mainly because focusing on personal abstinence of insect derived products is a very slippery slope. For example: If you were to agree with this you will need to rethink consumption of several insect pollinated plant based foods. Many of these require industrial scale trucking of bees think avocados, almonds etc (See Image Below). Avoiding these in my opinion are impractical for an average person.
Additionally I also think getting into this debate is a strategic mistake if we want to people take one step towards compassion. As put forth by THE Dr. Michael Greger 20 years ago here.
If some crops are much better for insect welfare than others, then I want to know about that.
I agree that it’s too onerous to avoid harm in everything you do. But I think the correct way to handle it isn’t to ignore the harm; it’s to figure out which actions you can take that have the best ratio of harm reduction to personal hardship, and then do those.
It may be that the answer turns out to be something weird like “don’t worry about dairy, but do avoid pumpkins and melons”.
I think there is probably a pretty strong moral reason to abstain from those but honey provides much stronger reasons. Disagree on strategy—people really like bees!
You maybe be right but I still disagree, mainly because focusing on personal abstinence of insect derived products is a very slippery slope. For example: If you were to agree with this you will need to rethink consumption of several insect pollinated plant based foods. Many of these require industrial scale trucking of bees think avocados, almonds etc (See Image Below). Avoiding these in my opinion are impractical for an average person.
Additionally I also think getting into this debate is a strategic mistake if we want to people take one step towards compassion. As put forth by THE Dr. Michael Greger 20 years ago here.
If some crops are much better for insect welfare than others, then I want to know about that.
I agree that it’s too onerous to avoid harm in everything you do. But I think the correct way to handle it isn’t to ignore the harm; it’s to figure out which actions you can take that have the best ratio of harm reduction to personal hardship, and then do those.
It may be that the answer turns out to be something weird like “don’t worry about dairy, but do avoid pumpkins and melons”.
I think there is probably a pretty strong moral reason to abstain from those but honey provides much stronger reasons. Disagree on strategy—people really like bees!