Is beekeeping inhumane

Answer 1

Keeping bees is no more inhumane than any other domestic animals. In fact, because the beekeeper will protect them against animals and disease. They always make sure the hive has enough resources to survive the winter.

Beekeeping is inhumane. Not only does it disrupt the bees natural system, it causes bees to do more work than otherwise needed. Humans have a negative impact on bees, their hive, and their colony. Beekeeping is not the right thing to do for numerous reasons.

Keeping bees disturbs the bee's natural habit. It is different from the wild, and that is not a good thing. We are taking their honey that they work for. It takes them endless hours to make one ounce of honey, and we are taking that away from them. The honey they make is food for the queen and worker bees in the winter. The honey farmers probably don't think twice about taking the honey, and only think of the benefit the honey will bring he or she once they sell it. Then, humans eat the honey, most thinking not of the fact that it was taken from bees, but that it is delectable. That, in its self, is inhumane. Bees then have to collect enough nectar to replace the honey. Therefore, this is one of the reasons why beekeeping is inhumane.

Another thing beekeepers do (which in my opinion is selfish) is taking the queen bee of the colony, and selling it to another beekeeper that wants to keep bees. Queen bees should leave or die when the time is right, not when one needs money. Then worker bees have to work to make a new queen by selecting several larvae to be fed the royal jelly, to make them the queen. This causes bees to do work that would be unnecessary if their queen bee hadn't been taken away. Most beekeepers that sell honey and queen bees are only thinking of their benefit, and not of the bees benefit, though they don't have many. This is wrong, and shouldn't happen.