Linch comments on Don’t Eat Honey

[Linch]

I prefer the Claude Opus summary, which makes it easier to argue against:

Here’s a distillation of the original argument in premise/​conclusion format:

P1: Eating 1kg of honey causes ~200,000 days of bee farming (vs. 2 days for beef, 31 for eggs)

P2: Farmed bees experience significant suffering (30% winter mortality, malnourishment from honey removal, parasites, transport stress, invasive inspections)

P3: Bees are surprisingly sentient—they display all behavioral proxies for consciousness and experts estimate they suffer at 7-15% the intensity of humans

P4: Even if bee suffering is discounted heavily (0.1% of chicken suffering), the sheer numbers make honey consumption cause more total suffering than other animal products

C: Therefore, honey is the worst commonly consumed animal product and should be avoided

The key move is combining scale (P1) with evidence of suffering (P2) and consciousness (P3) to reach a mathematical conclusion (P4→C) that honey causes more total suffering despite individual bees mattering less than larger animals.