The largest solar grazing project in the U.S. will reduce mowing costs and emissions — and make for some happy sheep.

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Do exploitation of animals such as this affect your morals.

Yes. I think that it is exploitation to use honeybees to pollinate crops. However, its way less harmful to animals then the meat, dairy, and egg industries. Therefore it isn’t really worth trying to fight against right now. If anything its a necessary evil now that honeybees are eating into native bee populations, reducing the amount of native bees able to pollinate.

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So you won’t eat honey but will eat almonds, even though both are exploiting honey bees? Is because of it being a direct product vs a indirect product of honeybees. Is an in between layer where you draw your line?

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So you won’t eat honey but will eat almonds, even though both are exploiting honey bees?

Yes.

“Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose”

https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/definition-veganism

Avoiding almonds is much less practical then just avoiding animal products. It’s not practical to avoid certain things. For example, lots of sugar is processed with bone char. However, most vegans don’t worry about that. Also some fruit is coated in shellac to look shiny, but it’s not worth worrying about either.

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I don’t think it’s that impractical or impossible to avoid almonds over other nuts.

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